Organic Garden/Restaurant instead of wine factory?

[Larysa]

Greetings!

Perhaps a better (more progressive/innovative) idea for the Best Family to consider is working with (instead of against) the fertile land to start an Organic Garden/Restaurant business. By using the ecological design concepts of zones and sectors and taking advantage of the apple orchard's super nutrient rich topsoil, the opportunity to financially benefit may far exceed a wine processing plant.

Also, there already is a new wine tasting room coming to the old Ace-in-the-Hole location, in addition to all the other wineries. Why be redundant?

A wine processing plant can always be put into a previously used warehouse/building instead of tearing up fertile topsoil. That way the Best family can ultimately have both.

May I suggest reading: Cradle to Cradle and Plan B 4.0?
Please note: Plan B 4.0 is available for FREE as a PDF download!

Please let me know what you think!

Sincerely,
Larysa

[Larysa]

Greetings!

For those concerned citizens regarding the proposed wine factory.

INFORMATIONAL GATHERING:

WHEN : Thursday, March 25th, 2010

TIME : 7pm to 8pm

WHERE : Sebastopol Seventh-day Adventists Church
1655 Gravenstein Highway, Sebastopol
(It's the church by Andy's Market)
Please Visit our Blog atConcerned Citizens for Responsible Land Use (https://c4rlu.wordpress.com/)

Hope to see my neighbors there! I will attend, but need to slip out early for another committment. I have been suggesting an organic vegetable garden and orchard instead of a wine factory. Right across the street there are warehouses and processing plants avaiable for rent! (707) 289-4612. Therefore, the Best Family can do their wine processing in an already built facility on the West side on 116 and make use of the rich soil on the East side.

Also please read a great article: https://www.odemagazine.com/doc/69/dirt/ (https://www.odemagazine.com/doc/69/dirt/) : The Joy of Dirt
"Books like Jared Diamond’s Collapse (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0143036556?ie=UTF8&tag=odemaga-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0143036556) and David Montgomery’s Dirt: The Erosion of Civilizations (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0520258061?ie=UTF8&tag=odemaga-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0520258061) lay out in painful detail the historic connections between soil depletion and the demise of those societies that undermined the ground beneath their feet."

From Sustainable Landscape Construction by Thompson And Sorvig (Page #89): "Franklin Roosevelt once said that 'a nation that destroys its soil destroys itself'. In the United States, where agriculture has lost more than 40% (more today) of its soil nutrients since 1860, this is not idle rhetoric. The good news is that the region that invests in maintaining its soil reaps comprehensive environmental dividends, at less cost (in money, resources, and energy) than conventional methods of landscape 'care'."

In other words, the Best Family needs to comprehend the enormous value of the land they already possess - an agricultural goldmine!

Sincerely,

Larysa

Larysa T. Shmorhay
Educational Consultant

www.ResilientEducation.com (https://www.ResilientEducation.com)
Member of the USGBC – Redwood Empire Chapter
Member of the Mark West Chamber of Commerce

[Gratongirl]

How ironic that this meeting was held at a huge building with an incredibly large asphalt parking lot which replaced an apple orchard...:justface:

[2Bwacco]

What, exactly, is the point of your remark?

What's wrong with using a building that is already constructed?

This endeavor to build a "wine factory" will fail.

The neighbors, along with their growing numbers of allies, will see to that.