Thank you for your interest in sharing information about your business to support an effort to organize new local food and farm opportunities in greater Lorain County. The City of Oberlin, with a combined student and resident population of under 10,000, purchases over $16.3 million annually on food. About 6% of this purchasing is local, circulating over $1.2 million in the local food economy. The purpose of this survey is to begin to gauge the interest among local restaurants to direct purchasing to support farms and local food businesses within and around Lorain County to increase the percentage of food dollars that stay in the local economy, helping to create jobs, preserve farmland, and reduce energy used to ship food long distances.
By participating in this survey, we are asking that you share information about your establishment's purchasing. We respect your privacy and will use this information for analytical purposes only. Information about your establishment will not be shared outside of the NEOFoodWeb.org and Oberlin Project survey team. All purchasing information that you report will be aggregated with all other businesses that respond, so that information cannot be traced back to an individual establishment.
If you have any questions, please contact any members of the survey team:
Brad Masi, NEOFoodWeb.org at bradmasi@earthlink.net
Heather Adelman, Oberlin Project Coordinator at hadelman@oberlinproject.org
Mary Santana, AmeriCorps intern from Lorain County Community College at msantana@lorainccc.edu
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