"Passion and enthusiasm make things possible, not easy." ~Paulo Coelho
In 1957 The Nose was freed on El Capitain in Yosemite. It took 47 days to climb it by three men. In 2008, it was climbed in 2:38:46. The point that Mr Coleman was making is that something that was deemed impossible at one time, has now become a feat done by many~and well. The more it is practiced and refined, the more efficient it can become. This holds true in any type of seemingly "impossible" desire. Today he joined us to talk about gardening year round in a winter climate. Impossible? Nah. You just have to have passion and desire.
"Passion" is the key to success. As long as there is passion, there will be success. The grower just has to get really creative, use greenhouse techniques, efficient watering techniques, and aquire much knowledge about soil, plants, marketing, sales, equipment, etc. He spoke of simplicity. "If something seemed too complicated around our farm, we figured it was probably wrong." Keeping life simple" was another main point he made.
It was, as it always is, very inspiring to gain new ideas and share information with others. After the lecture, we headed off to the new Great Basin Co-op Building. It has become a hub for local Nevada farmers to drop off and distribute their goods. What an asset to our Reno/Tahoe Community.
As Whole Foods spearheads the "coexistence" movement with GMO seeds, I figure it is the perfect time for me to back away from my once beloved market...
I really wanted to ask Eliot Coleman, "Where do you do your grocery shopping?"
Great Basin Co-op' is first downtown Reno grocery in nearly 20 years
Tony Basile stocks the shelves of the Great Basin Community Food Co-op’s new location at 240 Court St., on Thursday Feb. 9, 2012. / Marilyn Newton/RGJ
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Great Basin Community Food Co-opNew location: 240 Court St.
Hours: 8 a.m. to 9 p.m. every day
Website: http://www.greatbasinfood.coop/
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At the same time Thursday morning, volunteers emptied the umpteenth pickup truck, loaded with goods from the Great Basin Community Food Co-op’s former store to stock its new store on Court Street.
Others unloaded shopping carts from a tractor-trailer rig parked in the middle of Flint Street. “Real shopping carts!” said Robin Dechent, a volunteer and co-op member. “In the old store, you could never get a shopping cart around.”
Taylor Mirich, a local arborist, parked his boom truck over the sidewalk. Later, he helped local artist Erik Burke into a harness and Burke was lifted to the top of the building to finish painting the Great Basin logo.
Inside, volunteer Wes Lee asked no one in particular: “Does anybody know where the pickles go?”
It was moving day for the co-op and dozens of volunteers answered Amber Sallaberry’s call for “all hands on deck.”
When it opens, most likely on Saturday morning, it will be the first local grocery store in downtown Reno since the Mayfair Market made way for the Silver Legacy casino in 1994.
After that, a grocery store became a rallying cry of downtown condo owners before the condo boom went bust in 2007.
“We are very excited,” said Karen Henderson, who lives around the corner from the co-op in Park Towers. “It will be a big plus for those of us living downtown. With the expansion, I’m hoping they can lower their prices a little bit and become competitive.”
With 7,000 square feet of space, the new store at 240 Court St. is 14 times larger than the little yellow house on Plumas Street that was crammed with goods.
Loans and donations from members as well as grants totaling $750,000 have gone into the new location, said Sallaberry, general manager and co-founder.
With the extra space, Sallaberry said the store will carry hundreds, maybe thousands, of new products. She expects the co-op’s membership of more than 4,000 to grow. More than 120 have helped with the move and renovation work.
The new store is in a Spanish mission-style building with a red-tiled roofet to the community!
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