<html><body bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><div>Really glad to see all the energy going into this. Please let the rest of us know if and when we can support you in any way with set up or anything else. </div><div>Orna.</div><div><br>Sent from my iPhone</div><div><br>On Mar 3, 2010, at 10:45 AM, jenny heins <<a href="mailto:jenny@sustainableballard.org">jenny@sustainableballard.org</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><div></div><blockquote type="cite"><div>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.<div><br><div><div>On Mar 3, 2010, at 10:33 AM, Ingela Wanerstrand wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite">Wow! this is great to see so much support for gardening in SB!<br>Of course I'm willing to help put the March program together-especially when I don't have top do it all myself :0)<br>and with support from our president even (when I didn't hear back from you I figured you were really,really busy,so thanks!)<br>I think having Seattle Farm Coop is great.<br>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.<br>If we could get Conlin,great!<br>I'd also add City Fruit - for all things happening w/ fruit in the city.<br>Love the idea of having UCC folks,Laura & her garden sharing,Michael etc tell their stories. <br>Seattle Tilth would be great for us too,of course, but I wouldn't be too disappointed if they decline again.<br>Being the Mothership of sustainable gardening is Seattle with classes that fill up fast,<br>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.<br>I think of groups like ours as picking up the over flow and extending their efforts,like mycelium does for plant roots.<br>Also doing things that they don't like having UCC groups or Edible Garden Tours.<br>As a member of Tilth wanting to support them, what I've done in past programs,<br>classes etc is to make their class lists,Nat garden Hotline cards etc available to folks.<br><br>I've been asked to do a gardening program for the Subset Hill Community Center's meeting on March 31st.<br>When we get the program finalized,I'll let y'all know and send the info out to UCC & SB.<br>Hopefully we can get flier for the Edible Garden Tour by then to hand out too.<br>Thanks everyone!!<br>~Ingela<br><br>On Mar 2, 2010, at 5:53 PM, jenny heins wrote:<br><br>
<blockquote type="cite">I put this as the intro for the newsletter. Fulvio, can you make it format right?<br><br>On Mar 2, 2010, at 5:18 PM, Andrea Faste wrote:<br><br>
<blockquote type="cite">Here's the March poem, from Mary Oliver's <span style="font-style: italic; ">New & Selected Poems</span><br><br>Children, It's Spring<br><br>And this is the lady to be picked by careful fingers,<br>whom everyone loves, young fingers, entranced<br>Ms. Violet by what has happened<br>in her purple gown to the world.<br><br>or, on special occasions, We, the older ones,<br>a dress the color call it Spring,<br>of sunlight. She sits and we have been through it <br>in the mossy weeds and waits many times.<br><br>to be noticed. But there is still nothing<br>She loves dampness. like the children bringing home<br>She loves attention. such happiness<br>She loves especially in their small hands.<br><br><br><br><br>On Mar 2, 2010, at 3:02 PM, jenny heins wrote:<br><br>
<blockquote type="cite">I'm loving Garden Month and wrapping these 3 together. <br>I sent out these 3 emails:<br>Richard Conlin - City Initiatives (Local Food, Urban Ag, etc)<br>Amy & Charmaine - Seattle Farm Coop<br>Liza Burke - Seattle Tilth<br><br>we'll see what turns up.<br><br><br>On Mar 2, 2010, at 2:38 PM, Andrea Faste wrote:<br><br>
<blockquote type="cite"> 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.<br><br> 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.<br><br>I'm in favor of focusing our MG local GARDENING RESOURCES like <span style="color: rgba(0, 0, 237, 1); "><a href="http://TILTH.org"><a href="http://TILTH.org">TILTH.org</a></a></span> so 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.'<br><br>On Mar 2, 2010, at 12:55 PM, Julia Field wrote:<br><br>
<blockquote type="cite">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)? <br><br>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? <br><br><br><br><br>On Mar 2, 2010, at 10:51 AM, jenny heins wrote:<br><br>
<blockquote type="cite">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. <br><br>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.<br><br>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"?<br><br>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?<br><br><br>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.<br><br>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.<br><span style="color: rgba(0, 0, 237, 1); "><a href="http://sustainableballard.org/wiki/index.php?title=Board:Advance:_February_2010"><a href="http://sustainableballard.org/wiki/index.php?title=Board:Advance:_February_2010">http://sustainableballard.org/wiki/index.php?title=Board:Advance:_February_2010</a></a></span><br><br>Jenny<br><br>On Mar 2, 2010, at 10:10 AM, Julia Field wrote:<br><br>
<blockquote type="cite">Hi Admin,<br><br>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? <br><br><br>
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