Help Open Gilbert's Provisions!

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Hello! My name is Toby Gilbert. I am a chef from Berlin, Maryland. I am doing my best to open a cheese, charcuterie and fermented goods store in Berlin. Through years of culinary training and being a chef I've developed a love and passion for charcuterie, cheese, grains, pickles and fermented foods.
I will open Gilbert's Provisions as a supplier of all things fermented, as well as house made soft serve ice cream and domestic artisanal goods. Quick charcuterie and cheeses will be made in house. Domestic cheeses and charcuterie will be provided from the US's best creameries and salumis. Classes and catering will be offered.
All money will go to getting my space up to code and turned into a fully functional store with a kitchen. Ideally, I want to open our doors no later than March of 2016, so I need your help to provide our goods and services.
It would be a beautiful thing if I had the opportunity to take local produce from our beautiful farms and make Berlin kimchi, straight from The Good Farm's vegtables, or South Point sour kraut, using only hydroponically grown cabbage from Terrapin Farms. Using Bennet Orchard Peaches and Blueberries for ice cream, sorbet, sherbet, vinegar or preserves. Vinegars could be made from our local breweries like Burley Oak. Malted Rye soft serve ice cream would come from our local rye farmer's harvest. Beautiful heritage grains would come from Castle Valley Mills, only 170 miles away in Doylestown, Pa.
This has been a dream of mine for many years. Being able to serve my home town with the products that I love to make is a life goal. I would be forever greatful to have the ability to share my food and love for food as well as the skills, techniques and knowledge I've gained throughout my culinary career to the citizens of my area and further develop our culinary culture.