Imagine a Place….comfortable, peaceful, the aromatic smell of fresh spices and deliciously prepared soups, bread baked with freshly milled flours, pastries and pizza, specialty gourmet recipes using local organic ingredients! Fresh roasted coffee, the clanging of a pot or pan in the background, laughter, friends, and family…community! Imagine feeding your family a meal, holding a business meeting
over a gourmet lunch, or catching up with an old friend over a scrumptious, yummy dessert and a cup of unbelievably flavorful coffee or tea! Imagine a place that builds a healthy community by providing a basic need of food in a respectful and dignified manner to anyone who walks in the door! Dedicated to eliminating hunger and social barriers associated with food by feeding all people regardless of their ability to pay! Volunteer in busy kitchen or pick organic produce from local gardens! We will Teach – Social Responsibility! We strongly believe in a "hand up, not a hand out" model. Not only do we provide volunteer opportunities to earn meal vouchers, we will provide training to our volunteers in the food industry as dishwashers, prep cooks and cooks. We are partnering with local organizations to provide life skills classes. Participants will learn how to grow, prepare or preserve food. In turn this will help people to stretch their food budget and eat healthy. We will Preserve - Environmental Sustainability
We will use local organic produce from many local farmers. We grow a small amount of produce in our own garden using compost from kitchen scraps. We will be partnering with Local Urban Gardens and our Local Food Bank as well local and regional organic farms. We will Serve - Economic Responsibility
We believe in being sustainable and as an economic contributor in our community at large as well as a charitable venue. SEEDS Community Café is not just another food venue. A community Cafe puts people in touch with their food through relationships; relationships with the growers of the food and relationships with each other in the community. Our Community Café will be an organic community kitchen serving food made with creativity and love, enjoyed at a community table. This is part of what will make it a place our customers will want to share and return to again and again. Our concept is about growing and serving organic local food, being sustainable, sharing good vibrations, building community, reducing waste and providing our customers with delicious, vibrant cuisine by means of an exceptional dining experience where people from all parts of our community "break bread" together.
- Why operate with no set prices?? There are no set portions and therefore every meal is individual. This empowers customers and builds trust through personal responsibility. This is one of the bedrocks upon which the concept is built and is crucial to our goal of minimizing waste. By having people be mindful by choosing and paying for the amount of food they eat, almost guarantees lower food waste. We also don't encourage people to overeat or to waste food, which often happens in other restaurants that serve gigantic portions for their customers. Suggested donations (prices) are given to customers when requested. When people are given the freedom to be responsible for their actions however, abuse of that freedom will occasionally occur. A policy using creative and compassionate methods for dealing with abusers of the "no prices" concept will be necessary.
- Why have no set menu?? No-menu promotes seasonal food which in turn is better for our bodies and the environment.
- Why choose your own portions?? This helps end food waste and offers healthy portion control.
- Why serve organic food and anti-biotic and hormone-free meat and dairy?? This promotes good health, supports small local Colorado organic farmers and helps recover the environment.
- Why serve local food?? Growing & serving local food promotes food security & sustainability and lessens our carbon footprint
- Why use volunteers?? This allows food security and inclusion among all members of the community. This is a hand up rather than a hand out. And it helps to remain sustainable.
- Why pay employees a living wage?? This is fair empowers individuals through respectable wages and contributes to sustainability within the community. Seeds Community Café supports and believes in the “One World Everybody Eats” Mission Statement:
- We are dedicated to eliminating world hunger.
- We are dedicated to serving local, organic, unprocessed food.
- We are dedicated to feeding and including all members of our community.
- We are dedicated to eliminating waste in the food industry.
- We believe that we can trust our customers to be inspired, honest and fair in their exchange of money and/or time for the fresh, local, organic food we prepare both mindfully and in a heartfelt way each day.
- We will keep believing
Check out these websites! http://www.oneworldeverybodyeatsfoundation.org
http:/www.soallmayeat.org
http://www.appetitesunite.org
