10-24-08

Foodlums Minutes 10/24/08

Sustainability Week
Went well
 The week provides us with a framework for Earth Week and next fall's Sustainability Week (maybe a week or two earlier when it's warmer)

Dining Contract Meetings
no one went this week but some people went the week before and put in their two cents.

Hot Dog Sale
There may or may not still be hotdogs to buy from Hickory. Give him an e-mail if you're interested. tatehr@uwec.edu

Pesto
We still have some we can make, but there are several good-sized baggies of pesto in Ane's freezer now. At the meeting people thought $3.50- 4 per bag (they're reasonable sized bags)

Trayless Petition
We got some signatures during sustainability week, but we still need a lot more.
I would send on a copy of the petition so everyone can get signatures, but I can't find one. There is one partially filled signature sheet in the foodlums locker in one of the files.

“Menu for the Future”
Happening at the EC Public Library—Nov. 4, 11, 18 and Dec. 2
Open to the public but space is limited so you should sign up asap. Just go to the L.E. Phillips Library website and find it there.

Human Rights Awareness Conference
Put on by student senate and last year foodlums put on a presentation
Week of Nov. 10th and they are looking for presenters from 10-4 mon. - thur.
Someone know something that they would be interested in presenting about dealing with food? or even if you just want to research something enough to be able to present on it.
Corey will contact with Equal Exchange from the cities to see if she would like to talk about fair trade.

Accessing Local Markets and Buyers workshop
In Viroqua Nov. 14th-- touches on the business and marketing aspect of local food.
Zac went last year and will be going again this year, so contact him with questions or lewd comments. barneszj@uwec.edu

Sustainable Agriculture conference in Madison
Oct 31-Nov.1 Dr. Jamelski and Dr. Hupy will be on the presenting side of the conference as well as Dylan and Corey
Ane, Emilie, Danielle, and Briana will be attending as well.

Progressive dinner happened on Friday

Garden
garlic was planted on Friday-- one patch on the tomato side and one patch on the shady side as an experiment to analyze the effect of our sun situation on garlic growth
Other ideas for winter planting-- maybe kohlrabi?
Also, who has knowledge on how to winterize strawberries, raspberries?

Shed
Shed plans are on hold and may be terminated because it turns out the okay we previously got wasn't the official okay and now the plan needs to be approved through the state.

Composting on campus
Results on lower campus were pretty awesome-- 1 ton of food waste for the week. Emilie says to keep in mind that some rain got on it so it's hard to tell how accurate that measurement is.
Collection increased as the week went on, so it would just require people catching on.
Upper campus trial coming soon.