<div>Dear fellow gardeners,</div>
<div>The next UCC meeting is at 6 p.m. Monday, Dec. 6, at the home of Sooz Appel</div>
<div>Her address is 2533 Westlake Ave. N. Park across the street from Sooz' house.</div>
<div>Bring a potluck dish to share as well as one exchange gift. </div>
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<div>The gift can be homemade, used, "regifted" or newly purchased. Each person </div>
<div>will leave with a different gift than the one she brought. </div>
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<div>Our January meeting with focus on garden planning. At the February meeting,</div>
<div>we will put together our bulk seed order.</div>
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<div>I'd like to add a discussion item to the agenda for December. Should</div>
<div>we continue to order seeds from Territorial? That company distributes some</div>
<div>seeds from Semanis, which is owned by Montsanto. Should we do continue</div>
<div>to do business with Territorial, which indirectly helps enrich Montsanto? Or should</div>
<div>we give our business to a company with no ties to Monsanto?</div>
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<div>I ordered seed catelogs from Baker Creek, Seeds of Change and one other</div>
<div>company. If the catelogs arrive in time, I will bring them to the December meeting.</div>
<div>All three of these companies focus on open-pollinated heirloom seeds and none has any </div>
<div>dealings with Monsanto. <br></div>
<div>Depending on the group sentiment, we could either switch to another company, or</div>
<div>perhaps send in two separate orders - one to Territorial and one to a different company. </div>
<div>I'm looking forward to discussing this issue in December </div>
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<div>Susan Helf <br></div>
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Date: Mon, 22 Nov 2010 09:07:39 -0800<br>Subject: where is the UCC group meeting on Dec. 6?<br>From: <a href="mailto:shelf30@gmail.com" target="_blank">shelf30@gmail.com</a><br>To: <a href="mailto:pjjenson1@hotmail.com" target="_blank">pjjenson1@hotmail.com</a></div>
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<div>Hi Paula,</div>
<div>Forgive me if you've already sent me the information, but I need to know where the UCC group is meeting on Dec. 6. </div>
<div>It's nearly time to send out a reminder. I have finished my grant-writing course that met on Monday evenings, so I can </div>
<div>start coming to UCC meetings again.</div>
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<div>The group generally puts together a group seed order in February to order seeds from Territorial.</div>
<div>I'd like to place an item for discussion on the agenda- whether to continue buying seeds from Territorial</div>
<div>or to buy seeds from another company. I'm very concerned that some of the seeds Territorial distributes </div>
<div>come from Seminis, which was acquired by Monsanto. I don't think we should be buying seeds from a </div>
<div>company that helps Monsanto make money.</div>
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<div>I just requested seed catalogs from Seeds of Change (N.M.) High Mowing (VT) and</div>
<div>Baker Seeds. They all carry open-pollinated, heirloom, organic seeds. I should have </div>
<div>the catelegs in hand by the January meeting. I'll bring them so people can look</div>
<div>through the offerings.</div></div>
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<div>Thanks,</div>
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<div>Susan </div></div></div></div></div><br>