NCFC:Home

Introduction

• How our Wiki Works
  

Basics

• Gaithersburg golden rules for pick up
• Membership contract
• Goals and policies
• Pick up information
• New Member Guide
• Jobs - who is doing what and who to contact for help
• Frederick Process for Providing Input for Weekly Updates

• Frederick Drop Site Guidelines - have questions about what to do when you come to sort at the drop?  where to drop off products?  ettiquette when picking up your food on drop day?   informing Julie of shippments of sources? 
• Frederick Pickup Guidelines
• PayPal Tutorial - tips on setting up PayPal accounts.

• Lending library - looking for something to borrow? got something to share?
• Ode to Foodclub

Directories (out of date copies of the real ones)

• Frederick directory
  
• Gaithersburg directory
  
• Silver Spring directory
  

Working Documents

• Brainstorming ideas -- educational, service, fellowship, possible sources
• Finances -- income & expenses
• Brix
• Frederick Sorters - Sign Up Sheet - please sign up for a drop to sort.  
• 2010 Frederick Finances - 2010 Finances
• Frederick Membership Process - process for bringing on new members to the Frederick Food Club.

• Process for Tracking Missed Pickups (Frederick Chapter) - this document captures how the Opener, Closer, Chapter Leads will communicate missed pickup notes and open items for the Frederick chapter.

• Frederick Jobs and Responsibilities - list of roles for the Frederick location, who is assigned to each role, and a short description of the role.
• Frederick Member Mentor Pairs - list of mentor pairs for the Frederick location.
• Frederick Frontier Sort Helpful Tips - lesson learned from sorting Frontier for the past several years.  These tips will help to streamline the sort.

Food Club Roles and Descriptions

• Frederick Opener and Closer Training Manual - this manual will give the opener and closer at the Frederick drop location a very detailed overview of the role.
• Frederick Treasurer Role and Dues Collection
• Frederick Sorting Coordinator Role - description of what the Sorting Coordinator does for the Frederick Chapter
• Frederick Job Descriptions - list of the jobs and job descriptions needed for the Frederick Chapter.

Newsletters

2010

• March 2010
• April 2010
• May 2010
• June 2010
• July 2010
• August 2010

2011

• Winter 2011
• Spring 2011 
• Summer 2011
• Fall 2011 

About our Members

• <a href="NCFC:Services and businesses">Services and businesses</a>
  
• <a href="NCFC:Blogs">Blogs</a>
  

Other Shopping Venues

• Farmer's markets -- about our local markets, many of our food club sources sell here as well
• Garden
  

Software

• User's Guide for mailman
  
• User's Guide for MediaWiki -- technical, major editing
• User's Guide for our foodclub system -- users, product coordinators, database administrators, membership coordinators, new source seekers
• How to use the communication tools -- mailman, forums, phpBB
• User's Guide for our forums -- getting started with our forums (might be obsolete)
  
• User interface comments
• Alphabetical listing of all NCFC wiki pages
  

Starting a Food Club?  Operation logistics...

• Frederick Sorting Information - what to do if you are a sorter
• Drop Site Checklist -- list of items that are needed for the drop site, such as, scales, crates, tables, etc...
• "Extras" Payment Sheet -- so that we can better track our extras  (and balance)

Legislation and News

• Contact info for our representatives
• Codex Alimentarius -- NAIS at a higher level, attempting to regulate and control the global food supply, from field and stable to table
• [[NCFC:|"Food Safety" and NAIS]] -- National Animal Identification System: how it hurts local farms and helps agribusiness dominate
• Monsanto and their ilk -- agribusiness seeking domination

Food

• Learning about foods -- why certain foods are good for us
• Methods of preparation -- canning, culturing, dehydrating, lactofermenting, sprouting
• Recipes -- how to make traditional, nutrient-dense foods
• Esch cow -- how our meat divided up when we ordered 1/4 cows from Esch.
  
• LMF pig -- 8/31/10 Gaithersburg pig results.
  

Garden

• Gardening methods -- aquaculture, container, food forest, permaculture, square foot, winter gardening, companion planting
• Plants -- choosing (food, edible weeds, medicinals, fruits, natives), supporting, harvesting, seed saving, diseases
• Soil -- how to improve it: compost, compost tea, soil food web, tonic tea, worms
• Urban homesteading -- encompasses gardening and then some, working towards self-sufficiency and a sustainable world

Health

• Healing modalities -- Ayurveda, acupuncture, Chinese, chiropractic, energy work, GAPS diet, homeopathy, reflexology, aromatherapy
• General
  
• Specific topics -- autism, adrenals, diabetes, lyme, poison ivy, sore throat, ear ache, vaccines