Minutes, March 10

Agenda:

1) Solin Hall March 19th/Green Week

March 19th 7pm ERC WEDNESDAY at New Rez. hosted by environmental rez council. 5 minute presentation. Rafe, caytee,…anyone and everyone. good opportunity to promote for summer.

green week – next week. tuesday or wednesday, table at crossroads next to geurilla composting, fun and interactive that has to do with what we do: what veg are you? give them whatever veg they are as a reward. maddie is getting the quiz.

2) Plant info and garden plan
* Gillian rasp and straw: straws are going up the fire escape.
* perennials need to be run by Shannon
* square foot garden: book suggested by caroline, also lent 3 seed catalogues.
* seems to be that people want local seeds rather than ordered from around Canada.
* Make a list of exact things we want to plant and exactly where they are coming from and where they are going in the garden.
* Sub committees for plant design? – need list of timeline: caytee. layout: ginny
THURSDAY 5:30 GEO lounge to do physical plan.
* size of plot is 24x24 minus a 12x12 chunk. 24 feet of railing to be used as trellice. cold frames are in the low sun spot but spot could change. being planted here are early harvest.
* meeting with Concordia greenhouse to discuss seeds and amount of space necessary.
* growing in pots. also potential cheap stuff from collective garden center….(from agri class)
* Rafe has emailed the old people who planted in the garden for plan suggestions.


3) What needs to be seeded indoors (to tell the Stewart bio greenhouse?)
Gill and rafe will figure out.

4) Budget
Seeds
grow bags
trowels
containers
paint
dowels
trellices
hinges
brackets
stakes
coldframe material
fertilizer
hammock
wheelbarrow
thermometers

stuff we have already bought
Tim: $50 on building supplies

could get soil from vermacompost owners around the city and R4.

5) Cold Frame Maintenance and Improvement (and Repair)
rafe should use broom in the future. as not to break anymore.
cold frame duty? slot rafe in any morning. leah will make a schedule.

6) Organizational Structure
-collective?
rafe’s vision: its important to remember that the MSE garden is only one of many projects to come. the idea of having a vague mission statement of stuents around downtown growing vegges however they can, people can do different projects at all times…

this summer we want to keep a rigourous log so that people in the future can use it. office in the mse can be a resource. learning from other people’s downtown gardens, if we want to be more outreach we should learn from other outreach programs ie tim Murphy.

Gillian is planning to get Tim Murphy to come next monday meeting