Casa Robino

Finally... after various delays accumulating to several weeks, my flatshare got the first delivery of organic food from our food cooperative.
Getting the whole process working demanded a lot of energy from the few really committed people, but now we have a solid base to grow on. There's FoodSoft, a kind of online store with included task and member management written in rails, we have a bank account on a bank that invests in social and ecological projects only, a nice cellar and great people involved. A mailing list is online, a wiki is to come and we have already tons of people who want to participate (now that it's working :>).
So far, we get food from the best organic food distributor in Berlin, an organic bakery and a small fair trade coffee project. Sure direct contacts to a farm would be perfect but a collaboration between a local farmer and 4 Berlin food coops didn't work out in the past - it was uneconomic for the farm to spend almost a day on delivering to the cooperatives.
The more our project grows, the less money do we have to spend on corporate sugar poison stores. Yeh! :)
Personally, I plan on additional dumpstering in Berlin... I never really got to it, which is a shame. Also I stopped buying meat, it was way about time. I wasn't buying meat in the supermarket since a long time already, but I had Chinese or Turkish food with meat every now and then. I will still eat meat that's given to me (like when you're invited by people on the road), that my roomie or my fam'ly cooked anyway or buy organic meat if I really feel I need to... which probably won't happen.