Foodlums Minutes 3/12/10

Phil's big exciting news
- A student senator is pushing to bring compost receptacles to the res. halls.
- There is a grant being written for a machine to make aereated compost tea and foodlums are being written in as beneficiaries!
- There was a stellar garden meeting which Lynn Peterson attended and gave a lot of great advice

Klinger's
- A garden/farm supply store in Chippewa
- Chris and Jeff went last Saturday for a garden planning workshop that Chris described as a "freshman level power point presentation"
- Sounds like a pretty sweet place otherwise! With a green house, cheap 50 lb. bags of potatoes, and SEEDS GALORE
- They have an open house coming up

Loitering Games
-Dr. Kaldjian suggests that we have a nice social event around a "loitering game" such as horse shoes, kubb, or bocci ball

Garden
- Chris has an intricate grid pattern planned for the corner plot (where the hot box /cold frame is) small plots with walkways through and around so it is all easily acessible to everyone.
- People for sure want squash, dry beans (which we might want to try growing both up?), tomatoes, carrots, potatoes, and zucchini.
- Plans are coming along supurbly

Spring equinox river clean-up
-Saturday at 4 there are a group of people picking up trash along the river to honor the coming of spring in dress apparel
-Visit Trashmobec.blogspot.com for the low down.

Maple Syrup Update
-So Meghan went to the maple tapping workshop and found out that it can damage trees in the city to tap them since they are already weaker having to deal with streets and less nutrients etc. so that puts a stop to our plans to tap in the 3rd ward.
- Any other ideas? Think fast before the sap stops running! There was talk of a tapping set-up at Beaver Creek. Anyone have more info on that?

-Briana