Hot Bread Kitchen Launches CSA Sales with Local Fork: Non-profit benefiting immigrant women first to leverage Local Fork’s ecommerce capabilities
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
October 8, 2007
Contact:
Laura Humphrey
Local Fork, Inc.
P: (347) 413-8064
F: (212) 591-6627
laura@localfork.com
www.localfork.com
www.hotbreadkitchen.org
New York, NY This is a week of firsts for two new organizations dedicated to improving the accessibility of local foods in New York City. Hot Bread Kitchen is the first food producer to use Local Fork’s newly minted ecommerce and business tools. The two organizations teamed up to help extend the range of products NYC CSAs offer their members. This week, Hot Bread Kitchen will be providing freshly baked multi-ethnic breads to the Lefferts Gardens and West Village CSAs Local Fork’s unique web application allows members to place their orders online for weekly deliveries. These services will be expanded to CSAs across the city in the upcoming season.
Hot Bread Kitchen is a non-profit bakery and workforce development program for immigrant women that is committed to preserving their baking traditions. Utilizing their pre-existing skills, Hot Bread Kitchen trains immigrant women to work in New York’s thriving baking industry, thus improving their prospects and those of their families. Hot Bread Kitchen creates a network of female entrepreneurs and encourages the bakers to start businesses of their own. Jessamyn Waldman, Founder and Managing Director, launched Hot Bread Kitchen in 2007.
Founded by Charlie Strout in late 2006, Local Fork is a private company committed to stimulating the local food networks feeding metropolitan areas by providing an online networking space that incorporates business tools. Local Fork is developing a social networking site with the commerce and collaboration capabilities needed to support a vibrant online marketplace for local foods. Local Fork’s partnership with Hot Bread Kitchen is its first public step towards its goal of supporting the fast growth of CSAs in New York, in specific, and of the demand for local food, in general. Currently, Local Fork is actively building its network of consumers, artisans, farmers, and food service businesses. Local Fork will be launching its full service site this fall.
UPDATE: Hot Bread Kitchen products are now available to the Yorkville CSA. (10/15/07)
