Meeting2009–01–13
MUAN Meeting Notes January 13, 2009
Agenda:
We need to think of the Midwest as the fruit and vegetable exporters!
“Caught in the Middle” Richard Longworth
- Presenters for Year?
- Visited different locations (community gardens, individual projects)
- Land Trusts, Land Acquisition
- Integrating agriculture into education
- Soil remediation
- Sounding Board for activities going on which may need help
- Worm Composting
- Nutrition issues
- Green Roofs
- Peace Corps volunteer who has done community gardens in other countries
- MPS in Amaranth’s neighborhood
- Generational
- Ethnic
- Turning cement into community gardens
- San Fran Permaculture – Slow Food
- Doing in our own neighborhood
- Matt Ray Fernwood Elementary (Bay View)
- 16th St. Health Clinic
- Children’s experiences in a presentation
- Does working with children in the garden work?
- Navigating City Politics (Alder persons, barriers, connections)
- Inspectors who are understanding
- Presentation from an individual from the City of Milwaukee
- City Planner (Maria, Anne Beyer, Rocky)
- ADD MORE IDEAS ON THE DISCUSSION FORUM ON THE WEBSITE!
- Communication (how to): Guests from Minnesota
- How do we share thoughts?
- Listserve was for announcements and urgent action items
- Sharing the list for communication?
- Communication group- sign up for interaction
- Google Group? Yahoo Group?
- Communication between groups
- Networking through website?
- How many different groups in Milwaukee are doing similar things?
- Community Gardens in Wisconsin website to display information (profile)
- Google Reader- share articles etc with in MUAN.
- Discussion Forum: For public knowledge
- Why aren’t people using them?
- Potlucks?
- Committee to organize
- Going to a pot luck which is already going on
- Urban Agriculture Trade Fair/Open House /Seed Exchange/Perennial Exchange
- In place of meeting
- One Pot Luck a year
- School of Learning and Leadership pot luck
- Spring Harvest Festival
- Meeting Conveners
- 5 more meetings open , Please sign up to host a meeting!
- Meeting Time?
- Monthly meeting has been changed 5–7 pm
- Green Roof Symposium – March 5th, 2009
- MSOE
- 8:30pm - 5 pm
- Case Studies
- Break Out sessions
- Trade Fair Show
- Do you know anyone interested?
- Honey & Egg Ordinance
- Bee Ordinance is going through
- Peter Wilcut- Minneapolis
- Anne has three questions:
- # of complaints have there been in municipality with egg ordinances?
- How were the complaints handled?
- How many permits were issued?
- Announcements? New Projects or Events
- Blocked Church’s Chicken!!!
- Michael Fields Workshops
- Roof top Garden for Future Green January 21, 2009 5 pm
- Raised beds
- Seeds
- Irrigation system
- Madison events- Mike Ham Local Food Systems
- Aquaculture tours with Godsil.James@gmail.com
Thank you
to Ron Doetch and Julilly Kohler for snacks
and Bradley Thurmond, owner of Coffee makes you Black for hosting and Minutes by Katy Kujala-Korpela of MUG.
