Meeting 4- November 14, 2007

• Tim asked engineering shop to use to build cold frames, can be used any time as long as considered for school, it is locked at night, shouldn’t be too hard to fit to the windows
• Gillian: can use arch shop as long as not being used by students making models
• And tech director of moyse hall, and it can be rented out: given contact of lady in charge
Also made a website. Campuscropsmcgill.blogspot.com
• Rafe contacted the horticulture for gardens and grounds, needs to ask supervisor before he can get go-ahead.
• Gill: also talked to Pete Barry (coordinator for mse) thinks it’s a good project, he’d like to see it as a 490 of 401, no problem with non enviro students doing courses, if done as feasibility project wants us to present at end of year to mse profs. 401 is cool because necessitates a client who would be mcgill gardens & grounds. And there is money available from the mse. Talk to Shannon scott to see if can take over the old mucs office. (use for storage of garden supplies and cold frames).
• Gillian suggests a cold frame design team: Tim as an engineer others have building skills.
• Tim Murphy also suggested that it would be cool to make a design for santropols container gardens. (if it’s possible)
• Potentially disassemble the box from last year.
• April will get in touch with Vikram Bhatt and Geanne Wolfe, Rotem.
• Curtis has been in touch with Nik Lucca and the amazons of national geographic.
• Mcgill just hired a sustainability director, and Gillian will email jim and get both him and the sustainability director on board.
• Kathleen Ng – enviro officer of mcgill should be contacted
• Green fee, campus life, and the mse could go to a summer stipend, perhaps qpirg. (these are important for the proposal)
• Camille can get soil for the summer, and seeds can be germinated at the greenhouse at Mac.
• Tim Murphy is in for an open discussion on urban agriculture, (he works at santropol)
• Shannon scott to be contacted.
• Contact radu: from planning.
• Rafe will put the statement of purpose into a petition form.
• Gillian will ask Oliver to contact the Yale proposal writer.
• When asking for profs and participants use the piece rafe wrote and tell them to aim for the week after next, (the one after thanksgiving)
• We have funding from green fee.
• Seeds have been offered by the greenhouse and camille’s parents could be donating seeds.
• LET’s MAKE CAMPUS CROP PARAFANALIA!!!!! Campus crops logo competition!!! Gillian is emailing ssmu and aus to get this on the email list.

QUESTIONS TO BE ASKED AT MEETING
• Long-term and how can we do it? Internships can come later.
• Concerned with discussing the reservoir, know least about it.
• Educational space?
• Plots? Collective? Can be used for education. Primary for community.
• Internships, be involved for credit, gardening workshops.
• Food going to midnight kitchen? Yale farm didn’t grow enough to give to school so brought it to a famers market….before decision can be made need to do the feasibility study. And participation is also contingent on this.
• Have different sites, hillel and reservoir. Terrace it?
• Office of planning designated these areas for student gardening.
• http://www.mcgill.ca/mchg/pastproject/rooftop/ (check that out)