[UrbanCropCircle] [Admin Team] Gardening Program for March Gathering 3/22
Fulvio Casali
fulviocasali at gmail.com
Wed Mar 3 13:31:25 PST 2010
Of course, if you invite Seattle urban farm coop, I'll have to put in a plug
for harvest collective, too...:
http://harvestcollective.wordpress.com/
On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 10:45 AM, jenny heins
<jenny at sustainableballard.org>wrote:
> Alright - Let's drop admin and UCC off this thread and have Jenny, Ingela,
> Rhonda, Paula and Andrea coordinate. We'll get you all back in the loop
> once we have the plan set.
>
> On Mar 3, 2010, at 10:33 AM, Ingela Wanerstrand wrote:
>
> Wow! this is great to see so much support for gardening in SB!
> Of course I'm willing to help put the March program together-especially
> when I don't have top do it all myself :0)
> and with support from our president even (when I didn't hear back from you
> I figured you were really,really busy,so thanks!)
> I think having Seattle Farm Coop is great.
> Permaculture too-I can ask Jenny Pell since I need to get back to her about
> a project plan I'm reviewing for her that I'm sure she'd like the
> opportunity to tell folks about.
> If we could get Conlin,great!
> I'd also add City Fruit - for all things happening w/ fruit in the city.
> Love the idea of having UCC folks,Laura & her garden sharing,Michael etc
> tell their stories.
> Seattle Tilth would be great for us too,of course, but I wouldn't be too
> disappointed if they decline again.
> Being the Mothership of sustainable gardening is Seattle with classes that
> fill up fast,
> and focusing their outreach efforts on the East side of the lake where
> there is more need,they don't have much need to come.
> I think of groups like ours as picking up the over flow and extending their
> efforts,like mycelium does for plant roots.
> Also doing things that they don't like having UCC groups or Edible Garden
> Tours.
> As a member of Tilth wanting to support them, what I've done in past
> programs,
> classes etc is to make their class lists,Nat garden Hotline cards etc
> available to folks.
>
> I've been asked to do a gardening program for the Subset Hill Community
> Center's meeting on March 31st.
> When we get the program finalized,I'll let y'all know and send the info out
> to UCC & SB.
> Hopefully we can get flier for the Edible Garden Tour by then to hand out
> too.
> Thanks everyone!!
> ~Ingela
>
> On Mar 2, 2010, at 5:53 PM, jenny heins wrote:
>
> I put this as the intro for the newsletter. Fulvio, can you make it format
> right?
>
> On Mar 2, 2010, at 5:18 PM, Andrea Faste wrote:
>
> Here's the March poem, from Mary Oliver's New & Selected Poems
>
> Children, It's Spring
>
> And this is the lady to be picked by
> careful fingers,
> whom everyone loves, young fingers, entranced
> Ms. Violet by what has
> happened
> in her purple gown to the world.
>
> or, on special occasions, We, the older ones,
> a dress the color call it Spring,
> of sunlight. She sits and we have been through it
> in the mossy weeds and waits many times.
>
> to be noticed. But there is still nothing
> She loves dampness. like the children bringing home
> She loves attention. such happiness
> She loves especially in their small hands.
>
>
>
>
> On Mar 2, 2010, at 3:02 PM, jenny heins wrote:
>
> I'm loving Garden Month and wrapping these 3 together.
> I sent out these 3 emails:
> Richard Conlin - City Initiatives (Local Food, Urban Ag, etc)
> Amy & Charmaine - Seattle Farm Coop
> Liza Burke - Seattle Tilth
>
> we'll see what turns up.
>
>
> On Mar 2, 2010, at 2:38 PM, Andrea Faste wrote:
>
> Ingela didn't mention the 3/31 event yesterday at Urban Crop Circle, I'd
> not heard of it before just now, but I don't see any great conflict, either.
>
> What I do know is that Mayor McGinn will be addressing the "green"
> infrastructure on March 14 at the Groundswell annual meeting, so I like
> Julia's idea of calling March garden month.
>
> I'm in favor of focusing our MG local GARDENING RESOURCES like TILTH.orgso that people are aware of the solid gardening support there is in the
> city. I don't know if Jenny is doing her SmallWonder starts, but that's
> another resource. Also, Walt's Organics, and other local businesses. I'd
> also love to just have a relaxed conversation about the inedible joy and
> wonder of growing things and playing in the dirt. All that poetic stuff
> summed up by Voltaire....'there's always the garden.'
>
> On Mar 2, 2010, at 12:55 PM, Julia Field wrote:
>
> What if we made it gardening month, and focused the MG on some other
> aspects than what Ingela is covering in her talk? Get Richard Conlin to
> come talk about all that the city is initiating? And maybe also some brief
> examples of how to grow food when you don't have a yard, like Michael
> talking about claiming a neighbor's spare space, Laura McLeod on her garden
> share, someone on growing food in containers (for apt/condo dwellers)?
>
> Doing something else quick - screen a movie and have a discussion? Serve
> popcorn. City Chickens came up as a possibility - this could tie into
> growing food, sort of.... Or Kathy was talking about End of Suburbia 2 or
> something?
>
>
>
>
> On Mar 2, 2010, at 10:51 AM, jenny heins wrote:
>
> Obviously not. I knew I should have sent those Advance notes out earlier!!
> I got them all posted right away and then got stuck by the fact that they
> are in a protected board space and I wanted to make them accessible to
> everyone.
>
> I knew that Ingela and Carol Beers had been talking about doing something
> collaboratively around gardening at SHCC, so this must be the first result
> of that discussion. I had only heard that they were talking about another
> learning garden.
>
> Not just us - Apparently Paula who is in the Garden Guild is not aware
> either - she just replied to my email asking for help with the Monthly
> Gathering saying that she would like to help, but didn't mention this.
> Maybe we can spin this as "March is Gardening Month for SB"?
>
> This also serves as a reminder of why we need to make sure that all the key
> people are able to come to Advances. So glad that we have set the dates for
> the rest of them for the year. Amy, can you take responsibility to ensure
> that we have a rep from every guild at all the upcoming advances? And, if
> not possible, initiate date change so that we do?
>
>
> Or, does someone have a completely other topic for March, quick? There
> were some that we piled all together like kids & families, bees and 20 ways
> to get to know your neighbors, or barter fair and sustainable economies.
>
> FYI - here is the link to the Advance notes. We need a discussion about
> how to make them accessible to all participants if not to the whole SB
> community.
>
> http://sustainableballard.org/wiki/index.php?title=Board:Advance:_February_2010
>
> Jenny
>
> On Mar 2, 2010, at 10:10 AM, Julia Field wrote:
>
> Hi Admin,
>
> I just saw this in the Groundswell newsletter. How is it that we have
> scheduled two similar events a week apart? Do we know what "we" are up to?
>
>
> *Wed, 03/31: Edible Gardens*
>
> This is a gardening program co-sponsored with Sustainable Ballard. Ingela
> Wanerstrand of Green Darner Garden Design will discuss many topics to get
> you started gardening--tools, soils, garden books and other resources; and
> especially edibles. We will also have a few vendors, offering starts,
> fertilizer info, seeds, and other gardening goodies.
> * Time: *7:00 PM to 9:00 PM
> * Location: *Sunset Hill Clubhouse
> * Contact: *Michael McCutcheon, 271-2265
>
> *For more information about Groundswell NW and these opportunities, please
> contact Andrea Faste, **amfaste at comcast.net** or 783-6963; or Dave Boyd,
> **dave.boyd1 at comcast.net** or 498-6636.*
>
> *Please explore our web site: **www.groundswellnw.org**. **Click here** to
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>
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