notes 8/7 : questions

Expect an email from Dr.Trauger with a better summary of the questions we came up with. In the meantime, these are the questions we were throwing around yesterday.

questions for farmers:
apprenticeship/internship program?
what is the labour arrangement? who works and how are they paid?
how much of your food do you eat? is this mostly what you eat, or do you feed yourself mostly with food you haven't raised?
the social role of farming: why did you start farming and why do you farm now? why continue?
what would you ideally want to happen to your food?
whom/what are you responsible for once the food has been harvested?
barriers/opportunities to expanding your market, and offering your food at a lower cost
what are alternative structures you envision? do you support these? what support would you need to engage in these?

questions for activists:
who are you and what do you do?
explain organization
what are the results of your work?
how did you get started doing this? what is your motivation?
how do you deal with cultural difference, especially between yourself and others?
what are some problems you see and problems you don't see others answering? gaps in the system?
promote thinking outside of reality. envision ideal world.
what support could you use to accomplish your goals?
money - for what?
how important is healthy food to alleviating poverty? or more money to buy more junk food : is this a problem?
GOAL method: goals, obstacles, achieved, logistics.

when setting up the interview, tell the interviewee who you am, why you're contacting him or her, how you got the contact information, what you want to ask, and how long it will take (hopefully no more than 1 hour @ 10 questions per interview). Say that you will meet at his/her earliest convenience.
Reference Dr. Trauger and know that you can provide her email and office phone to make you more legit.
Come up with 10 questions per interview. This should turn out to make a 1 hour interview.

Good luck!!