Green Food Adventures

•Tasty & good!

•An eco-attraction like no other, on Browns Field, Hebden Bridge

GFA will connect visitors and

residents with...•nature

•agro-ecology food growing

•ecological science

•zero waste, zero carbon social enterprises

•passive house living

Key eco attraction elements...

• a one-acre agro-ecology market garden - mostly indoors in low carbon, elegant grow houses

A managed workspace

/incubator... • ...for zero carbon, zero waste social enterprises

•free up the mad inventor in you

Agro-ecology

Producing food from highly energy-efficient, biodiverse and climate-change resilient farming methods, in town &

country, on small scale farms.

Free from fossil fuels & monoculture plantations

Peaceful co-existence with the environment.

Rain gardens... that

show ways of reducing flood risk

...from the mad rain we’re having

A natural play area for children

A 45 bed eco hotel...

...that will provide accommodation for visitors and educate

people in the pleasures of living in a passive house - a highly resource- and

energy-efficient building.

Edible hotel rooms!

Plant it, grow it, eat it

Informal & formal education &

training•for all ages

•including schools and colleges

•edible curriculum support

•agro-ecology & closed loop apprenticeships

•visitors’ residential courses & drop in sessions for local people

•forest school sessions

OK, so how much will this all cost?

•We’ve estimated headline start up costs

•And GFA headline operating costs and revenues for the different parts of the eco-attraction

•This is a work-in-progress

•We still have a lot of fact checking to do

Headline start up costs

•Estimated costs from now to Opening Day - likely to be in five years, all going well - are around £4.9m.

•This includes construction costs of around £3.35m for the grow houses, managed workspace/incubator and eco hotel.

How many living wage jobs?

•Green Food Adventures would directly create around 19 jobs plus a few apprenticeships.

•It would indirectly be responsible for a further 38 jobs in the managed workspace/low carbon business incubator.

GFA - legal form

•By April 2014, Incredible Edible Mytholm aims to set up Green Food Adventures as a Community Benefit Society and Development Trust.

Meanwhile Projects

Over the next 5 years, “Meanwhile Projects” will

test & develop GFA activities.

A one-year site observation

project is looking at Browns Field plants,

wildlife, soils, water flows, flooding & social activities.

Interested in taking part? Give us a shout.

Cost of meanwhile

projects

We estimate that these will cost £25K a year for 5

years

GFA operating costs & revenues

• Summary of headline annual costs/revenues

• Business element Headline costs Headline revenues Cross subsidy

• GFA Market garden 88,198 53,333 + 34,865

• GFA zc/zw incubators 37,585 39,250 -1,665

• GFA Eco hotel 142,039 368,622 -226,583

• Core GFA services 171,567 0 +217,540

• GFA eco attraction - costs covered by Core GFA services and GFA Learning, except for staff costs given here:

• 70,713 108,000 -37,287

• GFA Learning 95,590 82,460 +13,130

• Balance

• TOTAL GFA 605,692 651,665 45,973

Like we said, a work in progress...•We need to fact check some

assumptions - particularly in the annual headline operating costs/revenues

•Your feedback/critiques are useful

•Please tell us what you think

•Ask any questions

•Say how you’d like to take part....

Thanks from IEM!