Constantine’s Log

The other day, Alyse and I went to the opening of the new Hills Market in Columbus and as per her request, this log will have more of a theme than just about the day. Her first question: "In what ways did you see the Hills Market attempting to be sustainable and build community resilience? [...]

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Yesterday was the first day that  I did any serious work (besides the work at the Farmers Market) for Athens Own. I worked with Alyse and Matt at ACEnet bagging coffee, cashews, marinated olives and we started a new batch of olives. As expected, I saw a new side of Athens Own. I see most [...]

Today I went into ACEnet to help Miles bag some coffee for the week. Alyse handed the torch to us as we went over a new checklist of items needed for coffee packaging. The main goal of today was to introduce how to begin coffee bagging without help from a supervisor. I was pleased that [...]

Athens' Own meeting 2/24 -Reported by Mathew Roberts, Edited by Alyse Carter Meeting time/place: Baker Center, 5pm Objectives: Reflection on articles Recall Top Passion: systems-thinking exercise Introduce PR project How what we are doing impacts your passions~ we want to generate excitement! >My Top thing I am passionate for: Sustainable Agriculture (permaculture), local food production, [...]

Ohio EPA Seeks Athens County Vermiculture Expertise Columbus, Ohio (February 12, 2013) – The Ohio EPA Food Scraps and Organics Recovery Initiative is part of a national movement to divert such items from landfills but numerous barriers are slowing the success of their efforts. They are investigating Vermiculture as a solution; it is an earthworm [...]

Members of local food scraps recovery team to attend and speak at EPA Food Scraps Initiative Stakeholders Summit Kathy Jacobson, a local vermiculture expert and steward of the Broadwell Hill Learning Center in Amesville, Ohio, will be one of many presenters in the “Ohio Projects Lightning Round” session of the 6th annual Food Scraps Recovery [...]

I am a junior at Ohio University and knew it was about time I began searching for an internship that would help me gain knowledge in how a professional business works. I searched the Scripps School of Journalism website for an internship that would help expand my talents in my major, Strategic Communication. I came [...]

I came to the farmer's market today with the mission to help those interested in working at the Athens' Own booth. Today the booth experimented with a new alignment that allows the cook (Miles) to be away from the natural flow of traffic of selling the products. I recorded the entire set-up from the AO [...]

It's great to be logged in again. The best surprise of the winter break was hearing that Athens' Own welcomed new members to the team. Hello Emma Buchanan, my fellow blogger. It's a pleasure to this point to read your insights and discover new perspectives from your eyes.  The spark of the new semester was [...]