Our monthly meeting starts at 5:30 tomorrow, preceded by the cover crop group meeting at 4, which will also include some divvying up of kits for cover crops, legumes, veggies, and possibly spring grains. As usual, we’ll be in the library meeting room.
The agenda for the monthly meeting is to focus on our specific projects; also to talk about seeds (including a report on the terrific seed saving swap and meeting on Feb 21), Whole Islands Catalog update, report on a meeting with Peggy Bill of the ARC, and an update on the Sustainable Living Fair.
Some brief notes from our January 27 meeting:
· We had about 22 attendees overall.
· Ken Wood talked about his involvement with the ARC (San Juan County Agricultural Resources Committee, http://sjcarc.org/), including such issues as the non-GMO movement in the county; and possible use of Land Bank land for growing food.
· Winnie Adams and Bob Gamble talked about the Transition Town types of activities on Waldron.
· We talked about aquaponics and fish tanks—Dan Borman and Mikial Denker are coordinating this. If anyone has suggestions for book purchases for the library, please let me know.
· Dan has about 20 varieties of spring grains to start testing.
· Hoop houses: we discussed the many options for materials, construction, and use. The New Alchemy Institute has done some extensive testing on this. (That organization has evolved into The Green Center, http://nature.my.cape.com/greencenter/hello.htm, and is well worth looking at.)
· We did signups for the various new subcommittees, including hoop houses, legumes, aquaponics, cover crops, spring grains, and vegetables (esp for hoop houses, though not exclusively). If you want to join one of these groups, please let me know asap!
· George Post talked about developments concerning solid waste and the transfer stations. I forwarded his letter to the email list recently.
I hope to see you at the meeting tomorrow, or to hear from you via phone or email.
Thanks,
Phil
