<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;">Susan,<br><br>Just thought I'd let you know that I plan on coming to the meeting this coming Monday, Dec 6. I feel a bit strange coming on a time when there are there are gifts.. I'm sure I can come up with something to regift or to make.<br><br>I was at the first meeting at the library and where the idea started at Ingela's in the way back time. I can finally make it on a Monday eve.<br><br>I'm not sure how the group ordering thing works.. if I have extra seed that I go this year that I think I over did for even this upcoming year, should I bring them? (Not 100% sure I'll get around to sorting through these.. but it could happen.)<br><br>See you there. <br><br>Alison<br><br>--- On <b>Tue, 11/23/10, Susan Helf <i><shelf30@gmail.com></i></b> wrote:<br><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left:
5px;"><br>From: Susan Helf <shelf30@gmail.com><br>Subject: [UrbanCropCircle] Fwd: where is the UCC group meeting on Dec. 6?<br>To: "Sustainable Ballard Urban Crop Circle" <urbancropcircle@lists.sustainableballard.org><br>Date: Tuesday, November 23, 2010, 10:24 AM<br><br><div id="yiv1413258380"><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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<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>
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