The Garden Collective

Start of Meeting

• Recap of AWESOME SUCCESS THUS FAR

 

Announcements:

• Xtreme gardening – with harnesses!
• Thursday night approval signed off (completed)
• Sunday cleanup
• Fall plants are doing very well
• Moved some smaller plants (beets, peppers) to fall box
• Tomatoes nearing the end of harvest
• Facebook invites – send out invites to everyone
• Spoke with Mike Zaia about garlic – should think about planting garlic now

 

Sunday: Cleanup

• 75% completed
• Groomed tomato plants
• Got rid of most aphids
• Detangled garden and put it back together
• Next step: Grooming for Thursday (unofficial start time is 6pm, but come when you can)
• Cleaning up ground
• Stacking palettes
• Harvesting for hors d’oeuvres

 

Monday: Met with Johnny C. (5^th year SIM guy)

• Document
• Photos (progress, experimentation, share them)
• SGA
• Need their approval (going to the meeting with a mission statement – who were are, why are we different than other groups?)
• $500 start
• Branding/Identity/Definition – will develop definite logo
• Positions
• Delegating all the work
• All on the same page, everyone has a role
• Logistics Manager/Event Coordinator – (Anna Stabler) high-level communicating, knows who to go to for this/that
• Publicity – (Sophie London and Anna Clark) advertising, updating social media, Facebook group, consistency in photos, garnering more support
• Head Gardener – (Keith Zorn) planning of where/when things are planted, communicating seasonal information to Publicists, should delegate what needs doing (need to accomplish A B and C)
• Budget/Treasurer – (Anna Clark) SGA communicator, finding deals, where to spend it
• Secretary – (Sophie London)
• Branding
• Need definite name/mission statement
• Contacts
• Nita, Head of SIM department (sustainability conferences, works with EventWorks)
• Jonathan Santos (good for navigating the system)

 

Meeting with Jamie (Food & health safety services)

 

Meeting with Claudia

• Head signature, getting everything  signed, provided table
• Suggesting enhancing/utilizing green space on campus
• Peripherals of courtyard
• Trimming trees to allow sun exposure
• Laura Flynn, Student Development contact (specializing in SGA)

 

SGA Requirements

• Anna will go to SGA meetings

 

Thursday plans – Event held at 8pm

• Cole & Keith – sound/music/lights duty
• Anna S. – dishware
• Sophie – Veggie Wash, toothpicks, napkins

 

Future Plans/Brainstorming:

• Possible compost bin – suggestion? Could be awesome!!
• Rez/Apartments – distributing bins
• Informational source, posters to update students on what’s in season (common format)
• Acknowledgements of volunteers
• Simple sign made – “Thanks to [names] for your contributing help this summer”
• Bake Sale – advertising at Starbucks
• Teaching the lifestyle of farming (workshops)

 

Funding

• Possible funding from Starbucks

 

Garden Goals (Keith)

• Teaching
• What makes us unique.
• Important to teach for everyone involved
• Sharing ideas
• Mini Newsletter
• Highlighting vegetable or herb of season

How to grow it

How to maintain it

How to cook it

How to use it in a special recipe

• Holding Workshops
• Show where the produce came from
• How to
• Maintain
• Use
• Medicines

i.e. natural remedies workshops

• Veggie cards

Picture on one side

Info on back

• Important to keep format for organization
• Urban growing
• Funding
• Growing Space wise
• South side windows only

Library

Compute lab

• Community Outreach
• Different departments
• Expermentations
• Types of growing
• Art growth

Shaping the fruit

Sculptures

• Seeds
• For roof top ASAP

Treasurer (Clark)

• Funding
• Transportation
• Seeds
• Seasonal materials
• Bamboo
• Rope
• Trellacing
• Print
• Garden Boxes
• Recycling materials

Contact restore for sorting

• Glass covers
• Hose Head
• Damages plants with what we have
• 50 plastic gallon drum/bucket
• Composting
• Garden Gloves
• Jars for drying and preserving

 

Priority List

• SGA group
• ·      Thursday Garden Harvest Event
• Regular Meeting Schedule
• Dates
• Every Thursday Evening at 8
• Outlines
• Updates/Announcements/Maitnence
• Up coming events
• Ideas
• Prep for Winter Season
• Finding Locations
• Preparing Locations
• Soil
• Seeds
• Ask around for spaces
• Weeding roof top
• Building up our garden area for the spring
• Pruning tree’s
• Beds