Minutes, March 17th

Agenda March 17th


GREENWEEK TABLING:
Tuesday 11:00-1:30
11:00 Gillian, Rafe, Caytee can be there
Caytee can be there the whole time
Gillian: somewhere around 12:30-onwards



Richard’s crazy potato or sweet potato growing technique:
garbage can, drills holes
fills with cut sprouted potatoes and soil
puts on a dolly and moves around to sunny spots!
(the potato cart! – visibility on campus)

1) ERC coffeehouse on the 19th – who’s going?

-Caytee is going anyway
write a song
Rafe will be there too to help talk
Leah djembe? email


2) seeds and planting

should be planting in green house right away
Richard has some seeds: lettuce, etc.
Gillian also has some through Concordia Greenhouse
Plan: seed on Thursday
Gillian: ordering more seeds this week at Concordia, coming in (?) weeks

Gillian’s times at Concordia:
Wed and Fri at 3:15 (this friday???), some Sundays


-date to go shop at Ile Perrot?
Windmill Point Farm, 70 acre permaculture

can order online and/or go to farm
long weekend – trip to farm!
-people with cars?
-Rafe: email/call the farm, can we visit/shop for seeds over weekend?


-Richard’s rules protocol for the Mac Greenhouse, plans for planting there

Gillian and Julia: ask Richard about soil, can we get it from him, and if not what else can we use? anything


-Downtown greenhouse?

only 2 flats, can seed any time, high ‘security’ for bio pest control,
should plant something “cool” there!
need to bring own soil and fertilizer
need to buy own pots or plug trays

-Other seed sources?


3) Cold Frame improvement and maintenance – materials needed and dates?

Monday March 24th (Easter) : 11 AM cold frame maintenance/garden work (insulate, paint, fix up, shovel)
if field trip: 9 AM (tentative)
BRING YOUR INSULATORS!
before weekend: bring enough material for another cold frame back to MUGS so we can make another one
Brendan and Leah: find out about the code

Nighttime insulation: blankets
St. Henri kids: Salvation Army?
others: look for anything that would be a good insulator
Rafe: do you have a staple gun? might (For other insulation, bubble wrap etc.)

-check out Square Foot Garden “sunbox” cold frame design, is it feasible for more cold frames?

-thermometers?
Gillian will scavenge around for thermos at Con greenhouse, including soil thermometer
Brendan will ask around, Gillian will ask around about equipment

4) Budget
Maddie: unlikely to get QPIRG stipend, 35-40 Applicants
other sources?
Leah: has a file/experience with applying for $$

new items:
-gas for field trips!
-summer stipend
-wooden planks and/or tiles (can be homemade, from concrete or broken tiles?)_
-flats, pots, and plugtrays

WE NEED TO ACTUALLY SUBMIT BUDGET
we have the list, and can ballpark prices, just need to submit
Set Deadline:
Submit budget to Green Fee by Thursday!
-get paper work from Alex
-or start over