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Membership meeting, 10 April, 2007

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• Tegan Dowling - Emergency Digital - Aspire to be your “wiki gnome” — the person who will be answering your questions when Mary Lou doesn’t or won’t. :) I’ll be conducting most of the training on the wiki later today. When you ask for help your questions go to me!
• Jeff Winkowski - Independent Chef - teaching cooking classes in Milwaukee and Chicago. Upcoming green festival that I’ll be working at. Lately I’ve been working with a couple of restaurants in the city to bring their compost to different city farms.
• David Boucher - runs Amaranth Bakery and Cafe. We coordinate community gardens on the west side, around Walnut Hill. We work with Hmong communities there, and run a community newspaper. We are sharing a lot of information about food across cultural boundaries.
• Howard Leu - architecture and historic preservation. Doing research for City of Milwaukee Historic Preservation office, doing freelance preservation work and architecture design.
• Ron Detz with Michael Fields - working on exciting things within Milwaukee
• Martha Davis Kipchack - Kitchen Table Project - advocacy around food issues and leader of Slow Food in Milwaukee
• Linda Kean - professor of Architecture, interested in green building, redesigning State of Wisconsin building, with green design techniques
• Margaret Bur - Outpost Natural Foods cooperative - wants to support locally grown food
• Mary Lou Lamonde - interested in urban ag, representing Riverwest Coop
• Janet Gamble - educator, food grower, and greatly inspired to work with groups in milwaukee to keep momentum going on
• Susan Cabelle - Michael Fields Cultural Institute - new to Milwaukee - totally inspired by everyone who is here
• John Bales - had a fish farm in Costa Rica, and wants to make Milwaukee a regional center for urban aquaculture - wants to create a non-profit center for this purpose
• David Moss - Emergency Physician from whitefish bay - wants to meet interesting people - one project is an organic farming / gardening project on the bluff in Whitefish Bay; shared project with instruction teaching people how to grow and plant and do permaculture.
• Belle Burdner - Eco consultant working with non=-profit environmental orgs, writes for Riverwest Currents, involved in Milwaukee River Basin Partnership
• Jan Christensen - YMCA Community Development Center - Riverwest Currents - Milwaukee River Workers Group - working on the Northeast Side Comprehensive Plan - advocate of Urban Ag, and
• Margaret Joy - does gardens every year to help children make connections between the spirituality of the world and growing food from the world.
• Juanita Lara - Flower Tree - fourth generation picker - wants kids to get their hands in the earth so they can learn about how the world takes care of us.
• Jessie Tobin with Urban Open Space Foundation - helps create the Johnsons Greater Health Coalition - nutrition and food safety
• Nicole Whitewine - Walnut Way Conservation Corporation - central city community group that engages in single and small plot intensive farming and urban orchards, involves children
• Nicole Penick - Reclamation Society - edible schoolyards - farmer’s market manager -
• Julilly Kohler - passionate about urban ag - “Children Eat what they Grow!”
• Yung Kim - Fondie Farmer’s Market at 22nd and Fond Du Lac - Food security organization, from the farm to the tummy. Nutrition education to make the most of access to fresh foods.
• Erin Knuckle - working with Milwaukee Urban Gardens - purchases land to garden on
• Sharon Adams - resident of Walnut Way neighborhood - here to thank Michael Fields - and to testify that this network is already working! Economic Development and gardening. (Husband is a bee-keeper!)