Sep
Team Meeting Notes 9/11/12
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- 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
- 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
- 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