Ag Meeting Notes 9/30/09

AG MEETING

Community Garden

Miller Farm currently has a Student Garden and a Community Garden with as many at 15 plots, however in recent years there have been around 4 members per summer.

On campus garden set to break ground on March 1^st.

Community Garden members have been frustrated by lack of clear management structures and exclusivity to Earlham community

Conflict between on-campus wants and off campus wants in terms of location.

Eve and Rose view make transportation less of an issue.

Making sure to have a garden manager to make sure things don’t degrade.

Working together to get funding.

Stay in Contact

CSA May-Term?

Farm Day Can Can Yes we Can Farmday

Picking Apples for Farm day – Kaitlyn and Jeffrey

Compost Turning – Aric and Miriam

Chicken Coop needs to be cleaned – Erin and Carmen

Tree-house maintenance for future—contact nathan

Garden Protection ideas

Cooking – Aaron? Miriam

Composting Orchard – Erin, Aric

Planting Front Flower Gardens – Sarah, Megan

Sarah will buy bulbs

Weed Wacking

Property Clean-up

Library

Canning Workshop – 1:30 SATURDAYZE

CLEANING PANTRY: SUNDAY MORNING STAART and TALK ABOUT ZUMMER REZERCH POSITION

Food Order

• Spinach
• Cream cheese
• Cheddar
• Soy Milk
• Bagels
• Mushroom

Receipts

Git Miriam her $$$$$$$$$

House Spraying

okay

Aric’s Fun Friday Workshop

FUUUUUNNNNN! @ 5:00

CONTACT

Hey guess what! Miller Farm has a new E-mail address:

MillerFarmers@gmail.com

Email us if you want to be on the farm-day List, the EC miller farm community list, or the alumni list! WOW!

Long Term Goals and AG meeting notes

We had a meeting and came up with some long term goals and projects for the semester:
+Work on creating a better compost system
+Get the orchard up to snuff
+Reorganize the dining room library
+Faculty led workshops
+Fix Cider press
+Seal Greenhouse
+Create a "learning wall"
+Collect seeds/ start a seed bank
+WINDMILL???
+Painting porch and mural?

EVEN LONGER TERM GOALS:
+Trail Maintenance
+Tepee mending
+Tree house mending
+Making our own charcoal
+Gray Water System mending/improvement
+Outdoor shower improvement
+Summer Stuff (internship)
+Tapping Trees
+Goats? Pigs? other livestock?
+brewing?


INVOLVEMENT IDEAS:
+IPO
+Student groups and houses
+workshops
+RA/Res Life?
+Different educational programs
+keep listserve up to date







AG MEETING 9/8/09

FARM DAY (SPACE THEMED)
Orchard-- Jeffrey
Garden -- Sarah, Erin
Greenhouse -- Miriam
Chicken Coop -- Aaron
Barn Cleanup -- Jeffrey, Aric
Cooking -- Kaitlyn
Painting?
Art?
Graywater?

AG MEETING TIME UPDATE:
AG meeting will be every Wednesday at noon outside Leeds Gallery except when Toby has a greenhouse meeting at that time, in which case AG meeting will be held TUESDAY at 10:30pm at the same place.

MIRIAM -- Morning Chores
MEGAN -- Evening Chores