Meeting 2- October 17, 2007

1. Midnight kitchen, donate what we grow to the kitchen. Have an event with them, advertise at the midnight kitchen to get volunteers and spread awareness of campus crops existence.
2. Growing in the winter, cold frames; planting cold weather crops such as leeks, lettuce, spinach. (these don’t use as much water as hot water crops therefore easier to take care of in the wintertime)
COLD FRAME: use to extend growing period. 2feet by 2feet structure with a plexiglass cover slanted to the south equivalent to moving 500km south. Some available, we could build more inexpensively. Replace the Santropol garden with cold frames after they have left (taking down on the 25th and 27th). Permission given by Bhatt and Santropol. There are places which have already been given permission to which we could use immediately. TO DO it at the same time as santropol will give opportunity for soil. Over top of grow trays. $100 estimate for cost.
3. Greenhouse wants to be involved and offering seeds and construction help.
4. Places for money – QPIRG event? Money from greenfee in reimburse. Campus life fund (ssmu).
5. PROPOSAL FOR CAMPUS LIFE: reimbursement because they meet too late after.
6. STEPS TO GETTING IN PLACE:
• Get permission from santropol for soil
• Get permission for space (Gillian talks to Bhatt, Graham talks to mcgill planning committee, rafe talks to rotem/santropol
• Get seed trays
• Get seeds (Gillian gets seeds – heritage seeds)
• date of santropol clean up
7. Make cold frames this weekend and store in the mse. Easiest design, 4 boxes, use watering cans, Sunday morning at home depot beaubien 10am at 1130 - 45am meet on campus at steps to nowhere.
8. Research coordinator at Concordia – you could meet pretty much any afternoon, talk to Gillian, (the greenhouse is on top of the Hall building)
9. TANGENT ON HERITAGE SEEDS: we can get heritage seeds from the place in montreal/seed exchanges, networks of garders who exchange seeds. Campus crops to buy a membership in one of these seed exchange)
10. Definition of heritage seed: traditional variety of seed. B4 monocrops. Specific corn, garlic from around the world (a.k.a. Heirloom) have good flavor, genetic diversity, and great germination rates.
11. Conference is coming to mcgill in febuary.1. We could give some of the food to them at this time. (instead of midnight). 2. Should we use plexiglass over glass?
12. Hillel farmers market: we’re going to find out more
13. Proposal: more
14. Movie showing in November on urban agriculture; green streets, about new York. Community cuba after peak oil. (From library)
15. Curtis Gillian oliver going to yale for conference.
16. Food policy at mcgill not institutional.