Foodlums Minutes 3/5/10

Maple Syrup
-Some people met on Saturday to clean out buckets for collecting sap and type up a letter give to people whose maple trees we want to tap. If you have time and would like to ask people with sugar maple trees in their yards if we can tap them, Tehya has a list of perspective houses and you can give the home-owner a copy of the letter attached
- We decided to try using plastic tubing for tapping since time is of an essence and metal taps must be bought online.
- All the materials for tapping are now together-- Dane's drill, plastic tubing, buckets, wax to block tubing into the hole. We just need trees! If you have a sugar maple in mind that we can tap, e-mail Briana and you can get the materials to tap it! (odegarbn@uwec.edu)
- We're expecting 3-5 gallons of sap/day which will need to be stored in the foodlums garden temporarily, if need be, and then at Dane's house until the boil-down. If you tap a tree, be prepared to take responsibility for the sap.
-The conditions are perfect-- above freezing during the day but below freezing at night-- the time to tap is now!

Garden
- Chris and Jeff talked with Lynn Peterson and are using a small space in the 5th floor green house for starting onions. onions in soil- check!
- We took a stroll around the garden to look at the plots our garden managers are looking at.- Think about what you want in the garden and keep in mind what grows best in what conditions. Documents to help your considerations as well as the seed savers catalog are availabile on the W drive--- Geog.- Kaldjian- Foodlums- Garden. E-mail
Jeff (glowaj@uwec.edu), Chris (maierhcn@uwec.edu), or Dane (haverlda@uwec.edu) with requests.
- The mysterious maker of the greenhouse-looking-structure in the garden has been identified and is a professor (not a foodlum- whew!) so don't mess with it.

Food for the Warming Place
- Some foodlums congregated to make food for the Warming Place (where people can go at night to stay warm if they don't have a place)
- We made cookies, coconut curry, rice, and bread pudding plus a little food for ourselves and cleaned out the oak ridge fridge in the process.
- More events like this are hopefully to come.

tap those maples and think about those garden veggies!-Briana