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Sep
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Thursday September 27th, 2012
GC Meeting Structure
Summary: Double Wammy intro to mini outside workshop (garlic needs to sit) guest speaker so it’s as if we have two plants of the week.
- Announcements
- SGA
- Budget Forms in $500
- Locker
- Storage Space
- Sustainability Conference
- Lots of Ideas
- One is to do random acts of kindness to simply build our identity as a community focused group.
- Blog, Tumblr, and FB
- Introductions
- Matt
- Mike
- Loiri
- Jess
- Kristen
- Keith
- Anna Clark
- Rosemary
- Plant
- The Pumpkin
- Growing
- Rows (like kale) as vines on the ground
- Trim – take off the small vines
- March-April
- Long Season – 1 harvest the whole year
- Super healthy plant
- JESS- their all over south Africa
- Harvesting
- Pumpkin Pie!
- Activity
- Garlic Intro
- Mike Zaia
- Organically Berlin MA (salamanpond mall)
- Good for you
- Lowers cholesterol
- Fights acne
- Fights heart disease
- Harvest
- Grow in growned
- Hang upside down
- You can eat every part of the plant
- Ward off aphids
- Same for Colorado potatoe beetle too
- Aphids Poison Recipe
- Dishwashing soap
- Local-In
- SOWA Market on Sundays- Only one more month and the rest of the harvest season.
- Up-Coming
- October!
- Self Watering Containers!
- Moving all donated equipment into storage!
- Maybe pumpkin carving??? BYOP
- Member Announcements
- Mike
- Garden Company Boss can come and talk about installing gardens
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Sep
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Garden Collective
SGA meeting notes
What will we do in the winter?-move things in to cafeteria?
-use garden labs
-create milk jug self watering systems
Will we collaborate with other green groups at school?
-lifestyle events
-plant/ pottery sales
-sculpture- making garden tools
-composting
How will we accommodate for theft?
-Group locker
*Free Stuff!
-10th floor donations from Austin (MassArt Farm)
-barrels that used to be used for trenches
-collaboration with re-store (wood, garden pots, thrifty re-usable materials, etc)
-Talk to *Lee McDonald* <supplies from 10th floor.
Possible construction in courtyard
CACP < recommended by Charlene.
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Sep
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Garden Collective Meeting – Tuesday, September 18th 2012
- 1. Announcements
- Green Book established: all handouts
- 8pm on Thursday nights (entire group), set time
- 8pm Tuesday nights (just core members)
- Thursday Swaray- huge success!
- 2. SGA – Meeting tomorrow (12/19) at 1:30pm
- How to Start an SGA Group packet
- Write group charter together
- Budget Summary Form – big aspect of how they know we’re reliable
- Recommended plan 1-2 events per semester, really do them well
- Systematic structure, create schedule for Fall/Spring (budget comes from there)
- 3. Keith’s Announcements
- Party was a success, prospective freshmen and juniors
- Met a man from the MassArt newspaper, great for publicity
- 4. Publicity/Building Visibility
- Facebook group administrators
- Tumblr updates
- B/W Scan tag to link to Tumblr
- Calendar should be established and posted on the calendar
- One flyer per month
- Mission Statement & Charter have been written.
- Winter planning
- Anna C: jugs
- Keith: seeds/location
- Sophie: cheap felt
- i. Considering places for winter growing → we should go around to see what’s available (lights/windows)
- ii. What to grow/where they need to be
- iii. Mainly herbs/lettuce
- iv. Self-watering containers → aim for 20-25 jugs for workshops (potential event)
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Sep
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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. (5th 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
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
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
27
Sep
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It’s as if it’s our birthday and we’re only around 5 months old! Like any good kid, we’ve got a list going of all our aquired goods
-SGA approved: They voted ‘Yay!’ unanimously!
-SGA appointed us a starting fall semester budget of $500
-Sustainable MassArt is sponsoring us with $500 (Total of $1,000 budget guys!)
-1st Meeting brought in new faces that have skills to contribute!!
-10th floor Donations from MassFarm (RIP)
-Jonathan Santos donating Garden Lab equipment : Heating lights, Dome, Seedling beds, and Seeds!
-Mike Zaia brought us garlic! AND has more!
-We have storage space through SGA and a locker!
Not even a month into school and we can rack all that off. Not too shabby. Here’s a recap of Thursday the 20th of September’s meeting…
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Sep
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New Group. New Semester. New Year. New Faces. New Harvest! It was way more than a successful evening. Everyone pulled together to create quite the banger of a club event. Anna Clark made green salsa out of the gardens tomatoes, basil, jalepeño’s, and single onion as well as a fantastic tablecloth. Sophie London contributed tableware. Keith Zorn brought chips and his record player. Cole Wuilleumier took care of lighting to spotlight our bountiful garden. I brought swiss chard spring rolls with sushi rice and vegetables from the garden chopped and rolled up in the GC chard. And our community brought the fun. There was such an outpoor of garden love, dancing, ideas, food indulgence, and even a jalepeño contest…Keith lost miserably. Everyone had a ball and it was a bright start for our big year to come.
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Sep
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This past summer a handful of our awesome green-heads made visits throughout the week to quench the thirst of our rapidly growing plants. Our small orange bags of tomato seedlings and a few various other little guys quickly outgrew their space. The short vines grew up to be an bush of a tomato hodge podge. Our team broke in for intervention come the start of Fall semester. Taking these bad boys down and harvesting our goods.