The long view · Phase 2 and beyond
What comes after the door opens.
Phase 1 is one building. The long view is what that building unlocks — a teaching kitchen, a second site, and a grant program that points capital back at the valley that feeds us.
- Years 1 – 2
Make Phase 1 boring.
The café runs without us in the room. The farm stand has weekly regulars. The education calendar fills itself. Boring is the goal — it means the operating model holds.
- Years 2 – 3
A teaching kitchen.
A second, larger space built around a working kitchen — knife skills, preservation, butchery, baking. Paid instructors, sliding-scale tuition, partnerships with the local school district.
- Years 3 – 4
A second front door.
A second farm-stand-and-café footprint in a different peninsula community. Same model, local programming. Two sites is the smallest network that lets us share buying power with growers.
- Years 4 – 5
Grower grants.
A small, named grant program for valley growers — equipment, transition costs, succession. Funded from a percentage of Groundworks' annual surplus and a dedicated donor pool. The agricultural community is the customer; this is the reciprocal layer.
None of this happens without Phase 1.
The long view is real, and it is patient. The next step is the first door.