Foodlums Minutes 4/15/11b

2011-04-26T22:16:00.000-07:00

Ken Meter
- Speaking tomorrow 12-1 in the CABIN!
- our posters say "Ken Meter is known as one of the most experienced food system analysts in the United States. His work integrates market analysis, business development, systems thinking, and social concerns. As president of Crossroads Resource center, Meter holds 39 years experience in inner-city and rural community capacity building."

Earth Day Festivities
- Foodlums have a table for the Earth Day festivities that are actually going on Thursday of this week from 10:30 -2 on campus mall.
- Stop by the Foodlums table if you have time during those hours and help power the table with good foodie energy.

Bees
- Our buzzing friends were welcomed into their happy hive in the grassy knoll this week with a hearty homecoming parade mostly made up of Dr. Hupy's class.
- Ellen told the theatrical tale in which she slammed a box of bees on the ground and almost lost the queen under Dr. Hupy's instruction while learning to introduce the bees into the hive. As a bonus she had the privilege of being excused from her exam until later in the day to lead the bee introduction.
- As a conclusion to our Friday meeting those in attendance moseyed over to the bees' grassy knoll to welcome them in a more low-key fashion. Turns out that grassy knoll is a secret garden. Remnants of an ancient garden were discovered as curious Foodlums surveyed the area to ensure that the bees were in safe surroundings. A compost box, bricks, boards. Secret garden.
-Of course, upon considering the space further, it was decided that the grassy knoll would also be a fantastic location to erect a hoop house! Which could double as a model beehive for instructional use during the summer. It could be the Foodlums hive! Kinda like a club house for foodies.

Raised Beds
-Ellen and Dane cruised over to Menard's to pick up lumber for building raised beds. Dr. Hupy had suggested a plastic, hollow lumber to ensure a long life for lumber that didn't need to be treated. Because the plastic lumber was especially wide and not ideal for several other reasons, they decided to get cedar which came highly recommended by Ellen's drumming circle leader who also happens to work at Menard's. (His raised beds are made of cedar and have lasted 8 years with no problems)
- Considering the budget, raised beds will be 1- 1 1/2 ft. high.
- Straw needs to be collected to fill the bottom of the beds for straw-bale gardening.
- Grounds says that we can use their compost to fill our raised beds as well. Horray!
- Jenna has spare lumber back home that she can bring back for the corner support pieces of the raise beds.
- A lumber-cutting party took place on Jenna's screened porch on Saturday morning. Dr. Hupy's saw was used to cut all of our lumber down to size-- 8ft x 3ft 10in. for 8x4 raised beds. Cold but productive.

Foodlums Minutes 4/8/11

2011-04-26T22:14:00.000-07:00

Our meeting this week was mostly a work day with informal discussion of upcoming events happening during the work time. Foodlums broke into teams. One team painted the bee hives and one team started some seeds in the cold frame in the garden.

Seeds Started
- Since some seeds have been started and are in the cold frame(peppers, buttercup squash, a few different kinds of tomatoes, and radishes) we will need to water them daily.
- You can help by watering the seeds!
- The hose key is now where to be found. Does anyone know where it is? For now we can fill a clean bucket in the bathroom (there is one in our stuff pile with a spade in it). Take care not to bring dirt into the building and bathroom. When we have some water in the bucket, we can use the spade to gently water the plants.
-If you water the seeds, check off the box for the day on the piece of paper in the cold frame so others won't water also.

Bee Hives
- The hives are now painted
- The piantings are BEAUTIFUL! There are pictures of bees and dogs and flowers that our bees are sure to love.
- It was mentioned that these bees better be hippy bees otherwise they might be unhappy with the decorations on their home.
- Frames and other hive materials are HERE! WHEW!
- Bees should be arriving within the next week. HORRAY!

Other Items That Were Mentioned in Our Informal Discussions

Ken Meter
- Will be speaking Monday April 18th at 12 noon in the Cabin!
- So EXCITING! He will be speaking on sustainable food systems. A perfect beginning to earth week.
- Check out his organization, Crossroads Resource Center, to get a better idea of what he's all about http://www.crcworks.org/?submit=about

Seeds
-Seeds will be ordered this week.
-When considering seeds this year, things we are considering include edible landscaping, foods that will be used and come into season when students are back, foods that we will use, and foods that can be stored for some time.
- The list generated at our meeting included: tomatoes, bell peppers, hot peppers, buttercup squash, butternut squash, black beans (climbers), beets, sweet potatoes, regular potatoes, kale, lettuce, parsley, cilantro, lavendar, lemon balm, mint, broccoli, cucumbers.
- If you have any other requests, let us know.

Seed Sorting
- A group of people in a conservation biology class, former Foodlums vice president David Hon included, were looking for people to help sort seeds on Sunday.
- They were helping the River Country RC&D with their bulk prairie seed sale by bagging and weighing out some seed this weekend.

Earth Day on Campus Mall
- The EEC (Envrionmental Endeavors Commission) has reserved campus mall on Thursday April 21st in honor of Earth Day
- Many environmentally minded organizations will be there.
- Foodlums will also be there! 10:30-2.
- We have yet to decide what food we will be handing out.

CSAs
- It can be hard to get a share with a CSA, but some still have spaces available.
- The link near the top of the foodlums website titled "Community Supported Agriculture" has links to several CSAs in the area.
- Founding Foodlums VP, Trevor Peterson, says that Slow Crow Farm near Menomonie still has shares available and can offer student-sized shares. They even have an egg share!
- Their website is http://www.slowcrowfarms.com/

Raised Beds
- Money has been requested for raised beds materials.
- If the money order goes through quickly, we can start work on raised beds at our next meeting! WHEE!!

Spring means time to work! Hooray!

Foodlums Minutes 4/1/11

2011-04-05T17:33:00.000-07:00

"Lead me, Follow me, or Get the H out of my way"
- One of the two most important pearls of wisdom for farmers according to a fantastic old farmer of authentic food at the Sustainability in Agriculture Conference this weekend at Lawrence University

Ken Meter
- Can come speak on Monday, April 18th but needs to be back in the cities by 5:30
- We will have a brown bag lunch for his talk.
- The Cabin was suggested as a place that would be central and might attract extra people to hear him speak.
- Visit this link for a quick bio on Ken Meter and to learn more about his organization, Crossroads Resource Center http://www.crcworks.org/?submit=about

Raised Beds
- Dr. Hupy is hooking us up with the lumber for raised beds
- We need to build the raised beds-- there might be a work day for the next meeting. Check your mailboxes for further updates this week.
- Dane had a cool idea for a design for our raised beds involving an octogonally-shaped bed. We will need to meet with Daria, the University's Landscape professional, this week to get her input based on her knowledge of landscaping.

BEEEEEZZZZZZZZ
- Ellen and Chris spent their spring breaks building bee hives under the careful watch and mentorship of our masterful bee-keeping advisor Dr. Hupy.
- Now the hives have been primed and just need to be painted-- white (so the bees feel comfortable). If we insist on making them awesome looking with pretty designs and pictures, he says we can use light, pastel colors.
- Foodlums have been waiting for the money requested for bee hives from the Green fund but the money seems to be lost in the complex bureaucracy of our University System. Hopefully funds will be recieved... now... so we can express order bee-hive parts that our happy hive makers weren't able to construct.
- Painting of the hives will be a project for our next meeting. We need to get ready for the grand arrival of our Queen and her BEEZZZ the following week! YEAY!

Progressive Film Festival Food Films
- Two food-related films were shown on Saturday "Tapped" about bottled water, and "The End of the Line" about the decline of Newfoundland Fisheries. If you were able to attend either of these films, please come to the next meeting so you can tell everyone about them!
- "Bananas!" is being shows on Monday at 7:30 in Hibbard 102
- The description given in the PFF brochure is : "On behalf of twelve Nicaraguan banana workers, he is tackling Dole Food in a ground-breaking legal battle for their use of a banned pesticide that was known by the company to cause sterility"
- WHOA! Hope everyone can make that one!

Sustainability in Agriculture Conference
-Ellen and Briana went to a conference about sustainability in agriculture at Lawrence University this weekend
- They will be bubbling over to tell you all the cool things they learned and inspiration they got, so don't miss our next meeting.

UW- Milwaukee Food Conference
- UW- Milwaukee is hosting a food conference the weekend of April 15th
- The focus is more on food culture and cooking and looks AWESOME!
- PLEASE! Someone go!
- Drool over the savory menu of speakers and topics by clicking on the link below
http://www4.uwm.edu/cie/research/conferences/food/program.html

This video was shared at a meeting a few weeks back and now will be shared with everyone on the listserv as a little end-of-minutes treat. Bon Appetit!
http://www.npr.org/2011/02/27/134069431/soaring-food-prices-hit-poor-countries-spur-farmers

Get ready to work!
-Briana

Foodlums Minutes 3/4/11

2011-04-03T22:19:00.000-07:00

Local Independence Showcase
- making the food and selling it at the event was really fun
- the menu was barley vegetable soup (all ingredients local except for spices and onions) and local hot dogs.
- over-estimating the number of people at the event lead to a negative income-- we lost money
-good to support the local movement!

Garden Manager
- Those who are interested in the garden manager position should contact Randy Palmer (palmerri@uwec.edu), the head of facilities and maintenance, to get more information about the application process.

Environmental Endeavors Commission Funding
- Briana and Dr. Kaldjian went to a meeting to learn how to get access to the money in our green fund grant.

A Return to Weavers
- Interest was expressed in going for another trip to Weavers
- Some wanted to leave the meeting immediately to load up on bulk goodies, others thought it best to wait until the morning.
- It was decided that a car load of foodlums would make the voyage to Fall Creek at 10am the next day (saturday, which already passed. sorry you missed it)
- As a bonus, the Weavers Pilgrims would stop at Farm and Fleet to look at different portable shed options for the garden. SCORE CITY!

Ideas for Spring activities (aside from obvious garden projects)
- Bringing a speaker to campus. Ken Meter is a speaker who came a few years ago and was contacted again to see if he would make a return visit to Eau Claire. To learn more about his organization, Crossroads Resource Center follow this link: http://www.crcworks.org/?submit=economies
- Farm tour. in an informal conversation that Katelyn had with someone from the Holm family, we were invited to visit their farm again (the organic valley dairy farm that we toured last spring)

Jenna gives a nice review of Turks head Coffee
- Jenna visited Turks Head Coffee on Barstow for the first time on Friday and was very excited about her turkish coffee experience
- When she was there, her new friend Mike (owner of Turks Head) told her that they would be giving out free cookie samples as part of a new event in which downtown businesses stay open until 9pm the first Friday of every month for fun night. The cookies he described included ingredients like lavender and coriander. yum.

Rock On Foodlums
-Briana

Foodlums Minutes 2/4/11

2011-02-06T11:33:00.000-08:00

Beekeeping Workshop
- The final lucky foodlums who were sent to Saturday's beekeeping workshop (the winners of the pancake flipping contest) were Tehya, Ellen, and Dane.
- The next meeting is sure to be packed full of new-found knowledge and insight for our own sweet colonies set to join our foodlums family this spring. Surely our new beekeepers will attend the meeting in complete beekeeping apparel.

Cambodian food, pictures, and stories night
- At the last meeting we were so tantalized by Emilie's stories from Cambodia that we all demanded that she and Chris lead us all in an attempt to cook Cambodian food while telling stories from their trip to Cambodia over winter break.
- Friday, February 18th in Oak Ridge is the tentative plan for this super exciting upcoming social event
-More details to come

Hot Dog Sale
- Some people expressed interest in having another hot dog sale.
- We don't really need money for Foodlums, so the idea was proposed to hold a hot dog sale for another organization.
- Ideas for deserving organizations were community table among others.
- Thursday Feb. 17th was the date that seemed most appealing to foodlums at the meeting
- Briana is going to talk to Christian Wise about holding the sale in Davies

Weavers
- Seven Foodlums visited weavers last Saturday
- One visitor described weavers to be "like Sam's club that you don't feel guilty shopping at"
- The store featured local dairy products, eggs, and honey and a lot of bulk dry goods with some organic selections as well. But that's not all!
- Next store up for a group trip might be Hahn's Market... but no set plans yet

Lutefisk and Lefse
-Ellen invited foodlums to join her family in making lutefisk and lefse
- The invitation was met by a chorus of groans of disgust and squeals of excitement.
- Ellen will inform us when a specific date is set for this Norwegian culture bonanza!

Local Independence Showcase
- Local Independence-- a radio show on public radio Sunday evenings featuring local music-- is planning a showcase the weekend of February 26th.
- The hosts want foodlums to be there promoting local food and (hopefully, depending upon legalities) providing local food for local music fanatics.
- More plans will be made when we figure out what the theater's feelings are on food

I hope there are a few Foodlums out there who bought the green and gold buns that I saw at Ron's the other day. They are helpful just in case someone takes a picture of you eating your wisconsin brat during the game and wants to know from the picture which team you are cheering for.
-Briana

Foodlums Minutes 1/28/2011

2011-01-28T21:57:00.000-08:00

Pre- Foodlums 3 o'clock discussion

Glitter and Cats room-
The meeting started with a discussion about the cats and glitter room
Briana entered with snow glimmering in her hair and our all-knowing president Tehya immediately jumped to the conclusion that she had come from the glitter room-- you know, the one located just around the corner in the secret hall of Phillips. The glitter room was revealed to also be filled with cats. So it is more properly known as the "Cats and Glitter Room".

Official Meeting Discussion

BOB (Blugold Organization Bash)
- This coming Wednesday 11-2 in Council Fire Room
- Please come for any amount of time you have available during this time frame so we can let others know about what an awesome group foodlums is!
-Tehya is picking up some cheese curds and bread to lure in cool people.

Beekeeping Workshop
- The Beekeeping workshop we received Green fund money to attend is Saturday February 5th and is put on by the Dunn County Beekeepers in Menomonie.
- Foodlums has sent in registration for three members to attend. The people at the meeting who were nominated to attend were Dane, Tehya, and Erin, however Chris has been reported to be extremely eager to attend as well, so there will be a pancake flipping competition this weekend among the four possible attendees to determine who our three primary beekeeping-knowledge-holders will be. If you are interested in competing in the flip-off for a spot in the workshop, please e-mail tehya (ricetm@uwec.edu)

Portable Shed
- Foodlums were also awarded money from the green fund for a shed to keep gardening supplies.
- It was decided that foodlums would look at menards selection
- Another idea was to find someone looking for experience in building to build the shed. An e-mail was sent to CVTC suggesting the project as an opportunity for a student in their wood technics program to gain more experience.

Cambodia Stories
-Emilie arrived and told everyone about her and Chris's experience in Cambodia over winter break.
-Stories included themes such as illegal banana plantations, a birthday cake baked in a jungle-made oven, a thrilling tractor ride, monks, and machetes.
- A night full of Cambodian food and pictures was demanded of Emilie. Stay tuned in for more details on this fantastic event. h

Fish Fry
- Chris and Zac are going to a fish fry next Friday, February 4th.
- Rides will be coordinated for those who are interested in attending.
- Fish fry does cost $9, but features three different kinds of fish! AWESOME!
- e-mail Zac at barneszj@gmail.com if you are interested.

Ice Fishing
-On the topic of fish, there was some discussion of ice fishing.
- A lot of foodlums were interested, but no motion was made to organize an ice fishing expedition.

Weavers
- Weavers-- a store featuring a variety of bulk foods just past Fall Creek-- came into conversation
- Foodlums decided to make a voyage of it on Saturday morning (tomorrow), leaving Eau Claire at eight in order to be the first ones in the store for their 8:30 opening.
-Two cars are going and we have one seat that hasn't been spoken for yet, so if you are enthused by the prospect of bulk foods and $2/dozen organic eggs, e-mail Briana (odegarbn@uwec.edu).

Foodlums Minutes 10/15/2010

2010-10-17T08:22:00.000-07:00

Reflections on the Progressive Dinner
-It was a blast!
-Thanks to everyone who came (a lot of people) and everyone who helped to make the dinner happen
- SPECIAL thanks to Tehya, Erin, Paul, Justin, and Katrina who welcomed us into their warm, friendly homes

Drafting a proposal for the Green Fund
-A group will be meeting in the library on Sunday October 17th at 1pm to write a proposal for getting the grand available through student senate.
- The proposal will seek funding to get proper storage for the garden, hire a foodlums garden manager, get bees on the Phillips roof, and get materials for raised beds and landscaping materials, among other things.
- If you would like to get in on writing project or are good at it, please grace us with your presence this fabulous Sunday.

Putting a stop to single-use plastic bottles on campus
- A group of driven individuals on campus is combining powers to put a stop to the availability of single- use plastic bottles-- this includes bottled water and soda in plastic bottles.
- A few proposals are being submitted to the green fund for quick-fill water spouts around campus and providing reusable water bottles for incoming freshmen.
- Look for petitions around campus to end the days of single-use plastic bottles on campus-- they will be circulating starting now.
- An event on campus mall is being planned for the week before Halloween complete with a demonstration of the masses of plastic bottles disposed of every week and signs that illustrate the reasons why it's important to use re-usable bottles instead.
- If you're pumped up, come join the next meeting Thursday, Oct. 21 7pm in the Clearwater Room.

Potato Sale
- The potato sale will be Thursday Oct. 28th from 10-2.
- Hopefully those who said they would be able to help if the sale happened last week are available the 28th also. Please attend the next meeting or e-mail Briana (odegarbn@uwec.edu) to pledge your time for the event.
- We will need people to make chili at 9pm the night before at Tehya and Erin's house, people to bake potatoes the night before in their ovens, and people to help sell from 10-2 on thursday.

Bike Race/ Cook-off
- Set aside the afternoon of Saturday October 30th for a fantastic bike race/ cook-off remenicent of last spring's space race. The event will start at 1pm.
- This year, we will come in full halloween costume, split into two teams, and race to different check-points to pick up predetermined ingredients.
- Then, the two teams will set to work concocting meals with the given ingredients.
-The event will culminate in a picnic located in our very own foodlums garden.

And now, something to look forward to our next meeting for
-A lovely, foody e-mail was received from our former VP and garden manager, Danielle Gannon, sending her love from her Peace Corp. post in Sierra Leon.

Foodlums Minutes 10/8/2010

2010-10-17T08:18:00.000-07:00

Progressive Dinner
- Tomorrow, October 9th beginning at 5:00 @ 720 Broadway
- Don't forget to bring your own dinnerware (bowl, spoon, plate, cup, fork, etc.) and $5.

Apple Picking
-Foodlums will be going to Schaefer's Orchard Run tomorrow, Sunday Oct. 10 leaving the Phillips/ Schnieder turn-around at 1:00 pm.
- People will be picking apples for Feed My People food bank and bringing some home for themselves as well.

Baked Potato Sale
- To happen either this week or next week Thursday from 10-2 in the Phillips entryway (depending upon when we get the potatoes.)
- Dr. Kaldjian has used his connection magic once again to find a fantastic potato donor. Last year Chaput Produce was kind enough to donate a significant quantity of rarely organic potatoes from Rice Lake, WI and will do the same for us again this year.
- There will be a chili production gathering at Tehya and Erin's, 720 Broadway, Wed. evening at 9:30 pm. Bring ingredients to add to the chili!
- This is the sign-up for potato selling
9:15 (set-up) Carlie
10-11 Carlie
11-12 Briana and Isaac
12-1 Briana and Chris
1-2 Briana, Lauren, Ellen
Takedown ______ (no one yet)
- As you can tell we still need help, so if you can help here, please e-mail Briana (odegarbn@uwec.edu)
- Chili making sign-up for Wed. night is K. MACE, KATELYN, Nate, Carlie (if needed), and Ellen yo.

Banning the Sale of Bottled Water on Campus
- There is a class who is motivated to put an end to bottled water sales on campus
- The group of passionate students will be meeting Thursday evening to discuss a plan of action.
- E-mail Aaron Brewster (brewstaj@uwec.edu) for more info. and check the Foodlums website later in the week for more specific time and date.

Green Fund Proposal
-Deadline for plans for use of the green fund is coming up on October 23rd (?)
- Foodlums would like to come up with a proposal that deals with landscaping of the campus, including edible landscaping and greenery that requires less pesticide use and watering.
- Get your thinking caps on and watch for notices on times and dates of meetings

Halloween themed bike cook
- Foodlums will be having another biking-meets-cooking scavenger hunt (similar to our space race last spring) on Saturday Oct. 30th.
- Come bet your costume ready and get excited!

Foodlums Minutes 9/24/2010

2010-10-17T08:17:00.000-07:00

Garden Party
-This coming weekend spend Saturday evening partying for homecoming foodlums style!
- There is promise of holiday lights and food with the possibility of a keg of Point Root Beer, Apple cider, and SOUP! YUM!

Progressive Dinner
- Still coming up Saturday Oct. 9th
- Tell all your foodie friends.
- Our motto this year is "the more stops the better" so get ready for several courses to this meal.

Garden
- A garden steering committee is being put together to plan the lay-out of the garden for next year and into the future. We're looking at raised beds, hanging garden, etc.
- Isaac got some new compost bins. WHOOt WHOOT! you go dude.
- The word is that we got a sizable donation from the biology department to clean up the shopping cart area-- maybe purchase large, nice, tubs for storing stuff.

New regional health care system
- We've received news that a new community-designed hospital and regional health care system is being planned
- They want to incorperate local foods into their vision and are inviting foodlums to attend the meetings for brainstorming/ planning.
- Dr. Pamela Wible will be in town Oct. 24-27 for the meetings. Stay posted for more specific times/ dates/ locations of meetings

Open House and Potluck at the Center for Healing Arts

-Friday, October 8 2-8pm at The Center for Healing Arts (2722 London Road)
-Pre-registration required for the potluck. Email Patricia: patricia.wickman@gmail.com

-Schedule of events:

---Roxie Fransway-Greening and Joyce Sobotta: 2:30-3pm Thermography and Healthy Girls presentation
---Deb Farmer: 3-3:30pm Maya Abdominal Therapy and Wise Earth Ayurveda
---Veena Chadha: 4-5pm Indian Cooking Demo
---Potluck: 5-6pm (RSVP required)
---Roxie and Joyce: 6:15pm Thermography and Healthy Girls
---Connie Reynolds: 6:30pm Intro to Community Acupuncture
---Patricia Wickman: 6:45pm Radiant Living Yoga and Ayurveda

Other things we want to do soon
- can apple sauce
- have a baked potato sale
- have a bike race/ cook-off

Foodlums Minutes 9/17/2010

2010-10-17T08:16:00.001-07:00

Potluck this weekend!!
- everyone should come, no matter how involved you've been with foodlums as of recent
-Come for a fantastic potluck to celebrate the bursting farmers market
- Sunday 4pm 720 Broadway St. -- Tehya and Erin's house
-Bring somthing to share... or don't, but at least come
- bring your own cup (they might not have enough cups for everyone)

Foodlums/ Conservationists Progressive Dinner
-We are planning a progressive dinner for October 9th
- Justin/ Paul's house and Tehya/Erin's house are already squared away as two of the stops
- Thoughts we had about food to have include: fall themes, sweet potatoes, squash, veggie chili, green beans, and chips and salsa

Fundraiser
- The possibility of having another baked potato sale was discussed. Keep posted for details.
- Potato source yet to be decided (last year we got the hook-up with organic potatos from near Rice Lake from Chaput Produce

Pizza Farm
-We want to take a trip out to a near-by pizza farm.
-One of the new pizza farms is open on thursdays and that seems to be a better day for people.
-Date yet to be decided

Bike Race
-Another bike race is on the radar
-Another event to stay posted for details about

And then we all took a moment to drool over Saveur.com
check it out and it will be your new facebook. Thanks isaac.

Foodlums Minutes 4/9/10 Meeting

2010-04-12T00:27:00.000-07:00

Organic Dairy farm tour
-College Republicans have invited us to go on a tour of an organic valley member dairy farm with them this coming Saturday. The farm belongs to the family of a CR member and they have been very involved nationwide with organic farming and have given lots of tours of their farms before, so it should be pretty sweet.
- We will meet at Towers circle to caravan out there at 2pm, Saturday, April 17 so they can give a tour 2:30- 4:30
- If you can drive, please come! It seems like a number of people had a conflict since the sweatshop workers will be speaking on campus at 4 so some may be heading back early while others can stay later if we have more than one car.

Bike race/ cook-off/ picnic/ kickball game/ space race
- Our founding vice-president, Trevor "Hot-Todders" Peterson, had an idea to have a cook-off (similar to our squash-off in the fall), but start it out with a bike-race around town to pick-up ingredients from different check-points. Sound a bit like a messenger-style race? well, there may be some inspiration there.
- So Trevor wasn't at the meeting, so we all just went wild building off of the idea and it's going to happen!
-Chris, Briana, and Katelyn are doing the detail planning of this event.
- The event will take off from the campus clock tower at 2pm on Sunday, April 18th (this coming Sunday) and will be a sort of space race... to the extent that there is a costume requirement that everyone wear something space related.
- We will be racing in two teams, which will be the cook-off teams. Each team is responsible for providing their own spices, flour, and sugar if needed. Other ingredients can be gathered during the race.
-Don't worry about this event interfering with your afternoon tea, because the rules mandate that we must all break for 4:00 tea at Infinitea.
-Recipes will be created during the race, so no preperation necessary there. Cooking houses are Danielle's and Chris's.
-The culmination of this spectacular event will be a picnic during which food will be shared and kickball will be played.
-Bring $3- $4 (to contribute for the food) and your bike and have a blast (-off?) this Sunday.
- If you have any questions, e-mail Briana (odegarbn@uwec.edu) or come to Friday's meeting)

Earth Day Volunteering
-Eau Claire Earth Day celebration will be April 24 11-6 at Owen Park.
- The organizers are looking for volunteers to help with the following items:
*set up (most needed!)
*take down
*sell t-shirts
*helping direct people/answer questions
*Help with children activities
*Bike Valet
- If you can help out with any of these rockin' things, contact our founding president, Dylan Thomas (patrick137@gmail.com) ASAP!!!

Garden
- Jeff started planting some peppers, collards, and tomatoes in the cold frame
- Some spinach was planted in the not-so-sunny plot
- Some paths were dug out and filled in with wood chips in the big, sunny plot.

Gear up for some farm touring and space racing next weekend!
-Briana

Foodlums Minutes 3/19/10 Meeting

2010-03-22T08:23:00.000-07:00

Dane has the sign! (This note was written on the minutes note sheet, although I'm not sure what said sign is...)

We have allies
-Lynn, Randy, Ruth
-The Biology department, who has traditionally laid some claim to the courtyard, gave the okay for foodlums to take over the garden
-Momma Carlson reminds us to avoid going inside after working in the garden since our shoes are usually super dirty and we have a history of tracking dirt inside. Bad news for people working in Phillips.

Cowsmo Compost
-Dr. Kaldjian will take care of the order
- Last year we ordered 7 cubic yards, 2 of which were for Dr. Hupy, 5 for Foodlums selling
- Maybe we will not order potting soil to sell this year since compost seems to be a good enough seller and we still have bags of potting soil left over from last year

David Hon
-Your name was written on the board in David-Hon-style letters in hopes that it would bring you back.

Garden
-We will be getting compost from the city this season, but they aren't ready to deliver it yet.
-Garden was cleaned up a bit to be ready for turning up the earth. So good to see the garden crawling with people getting their hands dirty.
-Spinach can be planted soon since it's good between 25 degrees and 75 degrees.

Happy Spring Equinox!!-Briana

Foodlums Minutes 3/12/10

2010-03-15T08:41:00.000-07:00

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

Foodlums Minutes 3/5/10

2010-03-09T05:37:00.000-08:00

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

Foodlums Minutes 2/26/10

2010-03-04T13:16:00.002-08:00

At the February 19th meeting, some new officers were elected:President- Tehya RiceV.P.- Paul ThompsonTreasurer- Katelyn Tschida
Garden Managers- Jeff Glowa and Dane HaverlyGUEST SPEAKER!-County horticulturist, Erin LaFave, came to talk with us and has a lot of really stellar resources to share with us and suggestions for our garden including putting up chicken wire or snow-fencing fences to keep rabbits out and planting plants that go well together in food together- She shared more specifics about the MASTER GARDENER course-- it runs for 12 weeks, once a week for 3 hours. It's held on campus and usually starts up mid-March.Free Clinic Garden-Looking for free seeds (perennials and root vegetables)

Cooking for the warming house
-Saturday some people will be preparing food for the warming house-- where people w/o homes in Eau Claire can go at night so they aren't cold
-The warming house already has a meal lined up for this saturday, but we can still make baked goods (cookies? banana bread? healthy energy bars? FUN!)
- In Oak Ridge, specific time TBD

Dane, Jeff, and Chris met for some garden steering-Some ideas they would like to implement this year are:-- splitting the garden into sections for donating, personal use, and experimental-- creating a map to identify plants instead of (or in cooperation with?) markers-- putting in a drip-irrigation line for more efficient watering-We talked about planting foods that we have a definite purpose for (i.e. tomato fest, chili making, etc...). -Vegetables we are all in agreement on are cabbage, beans, potatoes, and tomatoes. -Way to go, you threee, for putting a fire under our pants. Excitement for the garden was shared by all.

Maple Syrup
-We need to be watching for sugar maples that we can tap
- Zac heard that in the city, because of streets and warmer conditions, we should tap 2 weeks before one would normally tap in the country.

Keep your eyes peeled for tapable maples!!
-Briana

Foodlums Minutes 2/12/10

2010-03-04T13:16:00.001-08:00

Maple Tapping
- Tehya got some hints about tapping maple trees and there was much discussion about where we would be allowed to tap trees. Anyone have any hints for tapable tree areas around here?
- We want to get started finding sugar maples ASAP since tree start to run when things begin to melt.
- There was talk of forming a quick action e-mail list who would be able to drop everything and tap trees when it's time.
-Dane has a fire pit in his backyard and Tehya says her dad can help us build the cooker thing (to be technical about it).

Garden
- We need a binder to file garden records so there can be some consistency from year to year.
- Garden should be main focus this semester and other projects can be extras
- Decisions for what to plant this year will be made at the next meeting
- Phil's Grand Vision: more garden and less for the grounds crew to worry about
- What if we planted tall grasses like the ones Wendy's dad loves so much around it to make it a SECRET GARDEN?

Cooking Workshop
- Foodlums will be hosting a cooking work shop on Sunday, February 28th at 5:00 in Oak Ridge Hall to promote cooking and food conciousness.
- Have any ideas for what we can cook? Want to help out? Good.

COLLECTIVE POTLUCK!
- Foodlums + Conservationists Potluck at Danielle Alba's house!!!!
- 1034 Barland St.
- Sunday Feb 21st @ 6pm

Free Clinic Fundraiser
- Chris sent a vague message about going to a restaurant and proceeds from the restaurant's earnings go to the free clinic.
- If Chris could come to the next meeting and tell us more, we might be able to get more excited about it.

Start thinking of something delicious for the potluck!
Sending Love (in honor of Valentine's Day),
Briana

10-24-08

2008-10-24T18:02:00.000-07:00

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.

10-17-08

2008-10-17T18:01:00.000-07:00

Foodlums Minutes October 17th 2008

Hello all you dedicated and soon-to-be-dedicated foodlums!

Jasmine is swamped with things to do this semester and is steping down from the vice president position. A new vice president was sworn in at the meeting- Dave-o the pirate, David Hon.

Campus Sustainability Days
-Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday this week drop by for tabling 11-2 either in davies or on the campus mall.
-check out the attached schedule to see what other super fun stuff is going on this week. You could easily fill a day and night with the programs that are planned. note that the canoe river clean up that is sponsored by the hobnailers(which sounds especially exciting) has limited space.
- Trayless edifisc building (to show the volume of food wasted in a cafeteria each day) still needs to happen but has been postponed due to lack of needed statistics. Be on the lookout for a desperate cry-for-help email in the next day or two.

Dining Contract meetings
-There are still meetings this week for us to voice our interest in local food and sustainibly produced food at the meetings concerning the new dining contract.
Monday 5-6:30 alumni room
Tuesday 11:30-1 presidents room

Pesto Making happened Sat. night. we made a good amount, so if anyone's interested in purchasing a price will be decided upon at the next meeting, so stay posted.

PROGRESSIVE DINNER will be happening Friday (october 24)
-If you plan on coming, RSVP to Briana (odegarbn@uwec.edu) by wednesday so we can get an approximate count of people.
-the dinner will start with appetizers at Corey's (223 apt. C Hudson St.) and continue on to Ane's and Dylan's for main course and dessert.
-bring $5 to reimberse the hosts for food costs.

Garden
There are a butt-load of green tomatoes in the garden on the concrete mushroom. It'd be great if people could come get them and keep them in a paper bag with a ripe tomato or two to ripen them so we can preserve them either by simply freezing or canning or some technique that can later be decided upon.

Just Local Foods is in the process of moving to the former Johnny's Market site.
They'll need help monday, so if anyone can help out, stop by the store or e-mail zac (barneszj@uwec.edu)

Can't wait to see everyone tabling and going to events during campus sustainability days!!!!! !!!! !!

10-10-08

2008-10-10T00:00:00.000-07:00

Foodlums Minutes 10/10/08

1. Hot dawg sale re-cap: Good chili + good company = $157 profit. However , in the future we will need a permit for dawg sales. **There are extra hot dogs for sale. $2.00/lb. Talk to Dane.

2. Trayless Petition: Sign it! It will be circulating throughout campus during Sustainability week. Look for it in your inbox and in Foodlums Mailbox in the Student Organizations section.

3. Sustainability Week (Mon, Oct 20—Thurs, Oct 23): Foodlums are constructing an edifice to visually demonstrate the amount of food and energy waste we create using trays.

- Wed, 22nd: Corey and team's Carbon Footprint presentation @ 7pm, where TBA.

4. Sustainable Agriculture Trip: Oct 31st—Nov 1st. People who are going, you know who you are, make sure you are registered.

5. Events:

- Fri, Oct 24th: Progressive dinner @ Dylan, Ane, and Trevor's place. If you are interested, respond to this e-mail and volunteer a dish.

- (Tentative) Sat, Oct 18th : Sell pesto and made by the Foodlums using basil from our garden.

- Mon, Oct 13th: Seeds of Deception presentation. Corey will be doing the introduction!

6. Campus Kitchens (from Briana's minutes):

- It's the organization interested in taking food left over fromt he caf. (not yet served) and packaging it up to send out to people in need.
-Oct. 16-18 there will be a conference with other campus kitchens organizations in Marquette
-www.campuskitchens.org
-direct your questions about CK to Dylan Thomas

10-3-08

2008-10-03T12:02:00.000-07:00

Foodlums Minutes 10/3/08

We will be applying for a grant through the school that would give us a lot of money

Plans for shed
-we have metal doors from Duncan, but they are in Chippewa and need to be brought to our garden

Sunbow CSA
-a group of foodlums went to help out last sunday-- picked raspberries, dug potatoes
-Zac goes every sunday 9-12 so if you want to go, e-mail him.

Homecoming
-we planned our part in the SNEHA float (we held the foodlums banner and handed out local, organic apples)
-Ane invited foodlums to meet her at the Hank Aaron statue in Carson park to help hand out business cards.... seems like she was tricked into doing it under the guise of promoting foodlums.

Sustainability week
-tabling will happen
-Foodlums is in charge of constructing a visual for the amount of food wasted in a certain amount of time (amount yet to be decided). The plan is to build a frame from wood and either fill it partially with waste collected along the river or cover it with a sheet or... other ideas welcome.
-wed. there will be a panel with local cool people who can talk about environmental stuff from different view points (business owners, etc.) e-mail Briana with suggestions for questions we would like to ask.
-on mon. or tues. there will be a presentation on the carbon footprint findings for UWEC

Campus Kitchens
-it's the organization interested in taking food left over fromt he caf. (not yet served) and packaging it up to send out to people in need.
-Oct. 16-18 there will be a conference with other campus kitchens organizations in Marquette
-www.campuskitchens.org
-direct your questions about CK to Dylan Thomas

Hot Dog Sale
-Oct. 8 (THIS WEDNESDAY)
-To buy: hot dogs (150) buns (160) mustard
-to bring: wiener dogs (on loan from Dean Christian) utensils from lockers
-advertising-- Emilie will make signs

Sustainability agriculture conference
-in madison oct. 31- nov. 1
-interested? talk to corey!

Website
-remember that foodlums has an awesome website that is just begging to be pa-rused www.foodlums.org OR www.foodlums.com
-Jarel has agreed to take over the website so send him an e-mail if you have something you want posted with a picture for visual appeal
-a few of the upcoming attractions that should persuade you to check our website regularly:calender, minutes, pictures, weather, recipes, local food of the month.... + more ideas to be suggested by YOU!

Compost
- test site for violia will have test barrells for compost in the dining areas during the lunch and dinner hours this week
-want to volunteer to stand guard by these barells and tell people about composting? contact Emilie Carlson

Geog. club
-we are invited to come to geog. club's game day oct. 11 at 1pm in owen park

Soap making?
-Dave says all the materials are there so talk to him if you want to make it!

enjoy some squash!

9-26-08

2008-09-26T12:10:00.000-07:00

Foodlums Minutes 9/26

Shed Plans
Duncan or Hickory might have some door connections.
Corey and Hickory will go to Hope Gospel building materials sight.

Hmong Picnic
Way to go Dylan for holding down the foodlums stuff for a while on wed. when no one else was there.
Way to go to everyone who helped with the preperation and the picnic.

Volunteering on Sunbow CSA Sun. 9-12

Sustainability Week oct. 20-23
Foodlums is helping to plan in cooperation with SNEHA, Conservationists, and Hobnailers
We'll have a table (day and time yet to be determined)
Anyone have a speaker they'd like to recommend we host?

Homecoming
Parade- SNEHA has a float that we can latch on to. E-mail Briana if you're interested.
Mona Lisa's- We're looking for representatives from foodlums to schmooze with alumni at Mona Lisa's on the Sat. of homecoming. It'd be a great way to throw in a few good words for Foodlums. (Dave, Corey, Isaac, and Ane are interested) If you want in, e-mail Corey.

Sustainability In E.C.
Meghan went to the first meeting and will be going to the meetings. If you want to giver her ideas to spew, e-mail her.

Hot Dog Sale
Oct. 8 (wed.) is the tentative date
Chili Making Tue. night at 8pm (oct. 7th) at the klomps/ nolan household. 1004 1st ave.

9-19-08

2008-09-19T12:12:00.000-07:00

Foodlums Minutes 9/19/08

-Shed
shed plans can be viewed on the W drive.
we really like the blue doors as pictured, but mural doors are also being strongly considered

-Hmong picnic
tue. (9/23) - foodlums will help cut veggies at the UW extension office in Altoona
wed. (9/24)- foodlums will be helping to grill veggies and with childrens games at the picnic (pine pavillion in carson park)
tue. night Danielle, Justin and Tehya can help
wed. night Dylan and PaHoua can help.
if you are interested but didn't sign up, e-mail dylan (thomasdp)

-Officer positions
President- Ane
Treasurer- Mike
Historian- Meghan
Garden Coordinator- Emilie

-New Davies
imput meetings for the new davies are happening
Mon. 9/22 3pm in arrowhead student organizations-- emilie, corey, briana
Tue. 9/ 23 3pm in arrohead dining services -- mike & ___?__
RSVP is needed, so if you want in, e-mail corey

-Just Local Food is moving... sometime.... you can sign up at the store to help on moving day.

-Compost grant
if you will be around this year and most of next year you could get a job managing compost through a grant. The grant still needs to be written, but Sarah Peterson is in a grant-writing class and Corey thinks she would help write it
the worms plan can be incorperated into the grant to help prove our dedication and excitement.
strange occurances are just alligning!! (grant, sarah peterson's grant-writing knowledge, and worms)
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-Sunbow CSA far, could use some help 9-12 sun. morning. (sept 28)
come to the next meeting and we'll organize rides and such. If you can't make the meeting but want to go, e-mail ane (klompsac)

-Homecoming
we really want to have issac run for homecoming court-- mostly as a way to raise awareness for foodlums, but also just for fun. imagine issac dressed in a suitcoat made of woven corn hair and pea buttons.
also, parade float could be amazing. i'm thinking a cornicopia...
yes.

-Potluck
was amazing. everyone agreed the spread was beyond dilectable and the company was out of this world!

well, that's all for now.
take care,

9-12-08

2008-09-12T12:13:00.000-07:00

Foodlums Minutes 9/12/08
NEWS FLASH:
there will be a foodlums potluck dinner this friday at a place that has yet to be confirmed!
start looking up recipes that can use local ingredients and don't miss the farmers market wed. in the morning or thur. in the afternoon (or on campus in the morning)

Officer positions are open-
treasurer, president, garden manager, 1/3 of a public relations trio, and maybe more
if you want in, elections are at our next meeting so beeee there

Earth day-
even though earth day isn't until April, the committee to organize the pheonix park celebration is getting started.
first meeting sept. 29th, 4:00 in the nursing building.

Cultivating Sustainable Agriculture Conference
in Madison, oct. 31-nov. 1
foodlums will be presenting about our efforts to get local, sustainable food on campus and student gardens
we can get a table at it too, but it will cost $20/day.
Hupy can get a poster printed for us.
ppl. interested:
Dylan Thomas
Duncan Berg
Chris Maierhofer
Ane Klomps
Sasha Karosas
Danielle Gannon
Dane Haverly

Environmental Task Force JONAH
Dinner to discuss sustainablility in the Chippewa Valley
e-mail Dr. Hupy for more info.

2008 Wi Regional Hunger Forum
you can come if you want to bring up the local food component
Dylan Thomas is going, so e-mail him if you're interested
oct. 30th it's in Rice Lake

on campus farmer's market
Danielle is brainstorming ideas to use money on blugold cards at the market.
it might be a possibility to have a system where people can swipe their blugold in davies and get tickets that they can pay with.

Worm composting
Dr. Hupy will give us some starter worms since he got a new kit and he doesn't have enough room in his basement. we can sell products like worm tea-- like miracle grow on steroids.
we can use a room in phillips for worm farming
interest in worm composting:
Dane, sasha, Danielle, Ben, Jo, Briana, Ane, Katie, Chuck, Chris, Jim, Joe, Rachel

Coffee grounds pick-up
the coffee shop in davies will give us their extra coffee grounds again this year, but we need people to bring the bucket of grounds to the garden every week day some time in the evening-- 3 at the earliest.
volunteers so far are :
Duncan Berg
Chris
Rachel Mickelson
Stephanie Zinken
Tehya
Casey

Geography club wants to team with us for a stew-selling

Garden
-shed raising WILL be happening in the near future.
recorded interest was held by Katie Nolan, Ane, Duncan Berg, and Briana
you can still help, though, even if you aren't on the committee list.
-potting soil is still available by the 50 lb. bag
-watering schedule still have open days. contact Briana (odegarbn) if you are interested. days that are especially open because of ppl. being double scheduled are fri. sat. sun. mon. and wed.

Ultimate frisbee team for foodlums-- contact Ane Klomps if you're interested. More is better in this situation.

post script: corey wears athletic pants

4-25-08

2008-04-25T12:15:00.000-07:00

Foodlums Minutes 4-25-08

At Friday's meeting, we mostly just talked about plans for the Earth Day celebration, which was cancelled. I'll convey the plans below, just so we can remember how devoted we all were.

Earth Day
Drinks
- 6 kegs of Sprecher's rootbeer-- zac will get them in the morning
- Biodegradable cups not yet recieved in mail.... buying paper ones in case the biodegradable ones aren't in ben's mail box by the time we need them.
- water and ice recepticals need to be cleaned. we have 5 water barrels, 2 coolers for ice, and 2 tubs for ice and kegs. to clean dilute 1T bleach to 1 gallon of water and slosh it around until all surfaces have been disinfected. then rinse the recepticals out with water-- a few times.
-pricing for drinks is as follows: water cup - $.50
rootbeer (includes cup) - $1.00
rootbeer re-fill- $.50
water- FREE

Sat. morning schedule:
Group #1 meeting in garden at 9am to load dane's truck w/ compost, potting soil, and wagon.
Group #2 meeting in chancellor's lobby at 9am to disinfect and load ice into water barrels and coolers.

in retrospect:

Wendy was on TV with Judy Clark to promote the Earth Day festivities at 5 on friday :)

King Corn (the last progressive film fest film we were responsible for) was shown on friday night at 8. popcorn was served and corey and zac sacrificed themselves in order to pop popcorn during the film.

everything was loaded and ready to go. unfortunatly the earthday celebration was called off at the last minute due to cold and wind and snow, that, everyone decided they didn't love the earth enough to brave.

a foolums earth day potluck occured at davin's at 6 on saturday night with tasty food and fun.

4-18-08

2008-04-18T12:17:00.000-07:00

Foodlums Minutes 4-18-08

Progressive Film Festival is this week in Hibbard 100.
We are hosting:
-Black Gold-- w/ free equal exchange coffee (mon. night at 8)
-Price of Sugar-- w/ honey from our honey bears (thur. night at 8)
-King Corn-- w/ free popcorn (fri. night at 8)

Speaking of honey, Zac is hosting baking lessons-- to bake french boule with honey!
-Wed. April 23rd at 10pm at zac's house. 1316 Jefferson Ct

Earth Day celebration at Pheonix park is next weekend!
-We will be selling composted cow manure, kitchen compost collecters, cookbooks, foodlums t-shirts, biodegradable cups for water (that we will have), and some other drinks that are not yet finalized.

Garden Party on April 20th
- Sunday (20th) people will begin w/ bagging compost at 10am and continue w/ starting seeds and setting up the cold frames at 12.
- People who come at 10 for bagging will find the bags for the compost under the tarp that's covering the other bags of compost
- Corey and Zac are taking care of the straw bales for the cold frames

Chair-person Wiley report
-Wed. the 23rd we should all organize on campus mall to hand out seeds. Just stop in and there will be seeds

Zac stuff
-Anyone interested in having a share of a plot in the Demler park community garden this summer should talk to Zac

Reflections on the local food week
-making the week an annual event?
-possibly moving it to fall semester when there are more foods in season and more people interested in joining an organization

happy earth day on tuesday!

4-11-08

2008-04-11T12:18:00.000-07:00

Foodlums Minutes 4-11-08

Compost is coming in on Mon. morning! Bagging is being organized by me (Briana).

Earth Day
-rootbeer (1/2 barrel), juice, water (radio flier wagon and the shopping cart as tranportation), and jolly good (possibly in cans).
-plans to plant the council oak have gone... shady. the tree ceremony on the wed. after earth day may turn into just planting a tree for earth day instead of the official council oak.

Progressive Film Fest.
-Black Gold Mon. April 21 8pm Hibbard 100
-The Price of Sugar Thur. April 24 8pm Hibbard 100
-King Corn Fri. April 25 8pm Hibbard 100
-we should get some fliers circulating.... Kerri?

Garden Stuff
-the garden supply drive is still in the starting-up phase
-grow light option. we have 2 that have come out of the woodwork
-seductively more environmentally friendly alternative to grow lights-- making a cold frame/ hot box/ hot house with straw bales for walls for insulation and a sheet of clear plastic on top so we could just start a lot of the seeds in the garden
-contact Jarel if you'd be game for starting some seeds in your windows at home. just think of all the fun you can have with your sprouting seeds singing to them, reading them books, telling them about your day. he will assign you a seed. Ane suggests Seed Folks for story time with your seeds.
-collect your egg shells (pereferably broken into perfect halves) and egg cartons so we can use them to start seeds in and can just stick them in the ground with the eggshells and all. Dr. Hupy points out that this way, the eggshells will conveniently help to bring the pH of the soil closer to 7! BINGO
-another plan for seed-starting containers is teh coir-based pot which is made of coconut hair (more sustainable than the peat-based pot). Jane will buy a butt load of them using the weathered $5 bill that was found in the garden supply pile a few weeks ago.
-set aside Sun. April 20th... for a GARDEN HOLIDAY. we will be doing work in the garden and most importantly, building hot boxes/ hot houses/ cold frames (whatever you like to call them)

It's time for a much-needed foodlums Hoobob. the hoobob will occur on the weekend of the earthday celebration on saturday evening. location has yet to be determined.

Fry bread sale for NASA (native american student association) on thur. 11-2 in front of the council fire room. delicious!

4-4-08

2008-04-04T12:52:00.000-07:00

Foodlums Minutes 4-4-08

AWESOME LOCAL FOODS WEEK!

We started out the meeting with reflections on our money situation:
- the hot dog sale raised $367.30 - $115 that bought the hot dogs and buns.
- we still owe Dane $110 from the last sale and Zac $120 from various food that he bought.
- the econ. department is going to give us $50 (WHOA! nice!)
- we have $200 pending from student senate
- compost will cost $425 (but we'll get it back plus more after we sell it)
- we want to have at least $120 so that we can have hot dog sales in the future
- a certain amount of money will be necessary for buying drinks that we will be selling at earth day
- we still need to buy an animal from Heifer International (probably around half of what we earned at the hot dog sale after expenses-- about $126.)
- garden supplies need replenishing, which might cost us around $80
- materials to start cold frames... around $100
- there are $540 in our account right now (excluding any money mentioned above)
-- It is suggested that we wait until we have paid for the compost, raised some money from compost sales, and gotten on our feet again (a few more weeks) until we buy the animal or animals for Heifer International.

Jen suggested starting a garden supply drive for community gardens in the area that we could benefit from as well, so she's the head of that committee. Hopefully we'll get a lot of donations from the community and then we won't have to spend as much on garden supplies.

Garden stuff.
- we need lights for starting seeds, old yogurt cartons, cold frame material,

Earth Day
- Judy Clark from TV 13 wants to do an interview April 25 @5. Ane and Wendy are on it.
- our next plan is to sell refreshments at the foodlums table. The decision was made to have a water crew that will refill big water dispensers and to have kegs of different sodas that come from in-state (point rootbeer, jolly good sodas..) Ben is in charge of the refreshment committee.

Farmers market
-last indoor farmers market is this coming saturday at Trinity church -- the one on Clairmont with the ski jump roof
-outdoor farmers market starts first saturday in may. We're gonna be there!

Chair person Wiley Report
-wed. april 23rd (the day after earth day!) there will be a tree dedication ceremony on the campus mall to re-plant the council oak.

3-28-08

2008-03-28T12:53:00.000-07:00

Foodlums Minutes 3-28-08
Here's what we talked about at the meeting yesterday.

People from Campus Kitchens came to talk to us and sent around a sheet for people who were interested in getting updates. you can e-mail Claire Couillard at Couillcd@uwec.edu with more questions or learn more about the project at www.campuskitchens.org

Local foods week
-Chalk in your classrooms to get the word out about the week.
-There was a debate over whether or not we should have the banana dog as a vegetarian option. Banana dog supporters got the upper hand so we will be having fairtrade Ecuadorian banana dogs with local toppings such as sorghum syrup, honey, and peanut butter.
-Chili for the hotdog sale will be made after Ken Meter speaks on Wed. night ( around 9:00) at Zac's house 1316 Jefferson Ct. Eau Claire, WI 54703. We're going to be relying on people's donations of the main ingredients for the chili, so please bring kidney beans, refried beans, celery, tomatoes,spices, onions, or any other tired produce that you think would work in a vegetarian chili.
-We are going to buy an animal with Heifer International with a portion of our earnings from the hot dog sale so start thinking about your favorite livestock.
- A sign-up for local food week tabeling and the hotdog sale went around. Here's who signed up:

Tue. April 1st (across from the service center in Davies)
Jarel 11-2
Wendy 11-2 (for the heifer international part)
Mike 11-12
Dane 12:15-2
Corey 12:15-2
Meghan 12:30-2
Ben 12:30-2

Wed. April 2nd (on the campus mall w/ the "food frenzy" local food handout)
Dane 11-1
Kerri 11-11:45
Meghan 11-12:45
Jarel 11-2
Briana 11-2
Corey 12-2
Wendy 1-2
Phillip 1-2

Thur. April 3rd (HOT DOG SALE in phillips entrance)
Dylan 11-12
Kerri 11-2
Jane 11-12:45
Jarel 11-2
Danielle 11-12:30
Justin 11-12:30
Mike 11-12
Bess 11:30-1:30
Laura 12-1
Wendy 12-2
Dane 12-15- 2
Corey 12:15- 2 + set up

Earth Day
-Alchemy Organica, Hay Market Grill, and The Goat are on board for earth day vendors.
-Check out the foodlums website for other fun things going on with earth day fun, including the hiking/ biking/ canoeing trail to the pheonix park celebration and a trash pickup.
-Compost and potting soil that we will be selling should be coming in before earth day so people power will be needed to shovel it all into bags.

Farmers market starts the first weekend in may. Hope everyone's craving asparagus!

Chair Person Wiley report
- A new oak tree is going to be planted symbolizing the tree of excellence

Garden
- Since we don't have access to the green house this year, the plan is to have individual members start plants in their places of residence providing they have enough light.
- Cold frames will be needed to get plants started in the garden. We can use our funds to invest in cold frame materials.
- We're starting to toss around ideas for what we all really want in the garden. Beans such as pintos and lentils were suggested, along with herbs.

The silent film mentioned at a previous meeting is starting to be made. The topic is students healthy eating in the area. Talk to the film maker Laura Sukowatey sukowalm@uwec.edu for more info.

2-29-08

2008-02-29T12:55:00.000-08:00

Foodlums Minutes 2-29-08

1st, let us please take a (nother) moment to say a belated happy birthday to ralph. ralph nader, that is. some of us are especially glad you've made it another year.
meeting stuff:
1. another local food meal at outdoor rec: do we want to sponsor it? maybe if its for students?
2. talk of having a campus kitchen here at ec...using extra food from campus in different community organizations. email corey james for info- hilbercj@uwec.edu
3. food week updates: mon-heifer international at table; tues- meg is cooking; wed-possible meal at delaney; meg cooking; speaker; thurs-my notes say "ten, HOT D" maybe hot dog sale?; sat- kubb, grilling
4. compost-we're baggin it. jl has already ordered some. nice!
5. email corey about wednesday night if you're attending.
6.omnivore's dilemma-discussion at the public library on march 6
7. progressive film festival-we may have hookups for some freebie coffee
congrats. you've gotten this far.
here is your reward: "leaving work [early if you're cool!!] to watch sunsets"
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=87777150

2-22-08

2008-02-22T12:59:00.000-08:00

Foodlum Minutes 2-22-08

Introduction to Dr. Joe Hupy
- he has an ATV with a plotmaster that hooks up to the back that we can use for plowing the garden + would like to get involved with the garden and monitoring soil quality
-suggests selling worm composting (he has some experience w/ worm composting in his house)

Pumpkins
-pumpkins made trouble for the maintinence crews last summer so new plan-- have a pumpkin patch somewhere else. Dr. Kaldjian and Dr. Hupy both have possible patches.
-setting up a "cooking with pumpkins" w/ Meg Nord. Planned for the Nord/ Kaldjian residence on the evening of March 5th at 5. Come. It will be fun.
-"cooking with Meg" could become a monthly cooking demonstration that we have in a classroom, open to the public.

Progressive Film Festival
-Black Gold April 28th 8pm -- about coffee so we can give fair trade coffee samples
-The Price of Sugar April 21st 8pm -- about sugar so we can give honey sticks made from local honey
-King Corn April 25th 8pm-- about corn so we can serve local popcorn

Student Senate's new Environmental Issues Chair = Jasmine Wiley

Corey and Dylan will be meeting with Dan from outdoor rec. on Monday

Activities Week
- Tom Kahlb can't speak anymore because he's moving to N. Dakota, but Ken Meider will
-Ken Meider (crossroads center ag. research) speaking hopefully 4:30 -6 Wed. End the session with a brainstorming session in which he helps us assess our resources.
-talk to sodexho about getting a buffet in the Dulany in which every dish has at least one local ingredient.
- have events on the campus mall such as
free samples of local food donated by nice local businesses or get a grant from ORSP so we can buy local food to give as samples
lawn games like kubb
a food-instrument jam -- people make instruments out of carrots, gourds, potatoes and rockout to foodie music (posters could be made ahead of time to advertise this amazing food jam) Check out http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hpfYt7vRHuY to be inspired. We should all try to figure out techniques for making vegetable instruments. HOMEWORK FOR NEXT MEETING: try to make a vegetable instrument.

Seed Savers, a company out of North East Iowa that distributes heirloom seeds and plants, has events and programs every now and then. We could get a bus going to attend one of these events.

Heifer International
- Wendy is an intern which brought up the idea of Foodlums sponsoring an animal to be given to a community in need in another country.
-Animal comes with education on environmental sustainability, gender equality, and vetrinary and the intention for offspring and benefits of the animal to be shared and passed on to other members of the community.
-We could make it the goal of our next hot dog sale to get a goat... or some other animal that we all agree on.

Earthday
-In the process of contacting local restaurants, telling them that we are looking to incorperate local food and minimize waste.
Sammy's Pizza uses local meat and wisconsin cheese
Nine Degrees ice cream has their ice cream on bikes
-look into getting permit from the city so we could sell hot dogs or some other local food of our choice?
-hard boiled eggs for a snack. We could have them colored like earths! OR it could be a children's activity to color the hardboiled eggs like earths.

Try to make it to the sustainable dining committee. Seems to be in Alumni again. 5PM Tuesdays

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