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.
Thursday, January 17, 2008
Meeting 1- October 3, 2007
Present: Gillian, Caytee, Maddie, Alex, Luba, Grace, Anna, Avery, Juliana, April, Rotem, Rafe, Curtis, DAVID, emma, sara todd, et. al.
1. EDIBLE CAMPUS GARDEN on Stairs to Nowhere (run by Rotem et. al.) Rooftop Gardens Project – collaboration between Alternatives (NGO) and Santropol.
• NOT a McGill organization, but uses space on campus and they want to make it permanent and increase student involvement.
• All the food grown goes to santropol roulant.
• Volunteer hours: Tuesday and Saturdays 9 30 - 12, Thursdays 4 - 7. (between two and fifteen people, between one and three hours, three days a week = 18-45 worker/hours per week to maintain edible campus garden)
• All plants are started at makeshift greenhouse at santropol roulant.
• They need help closing the garden, date is not yet clear but it will be to end of October (good opportunity for student involvement, we’ll send info on the listserv).
-Other Rooftop Garden Project gardens: senior homes, with a communal design, one on UQAM design building, Hotel School above Sherbrooke Metro, etc.
2. GOAL - start process of getting space for campus crops, options, delegating who is going to pursue those options, financing those options.
• Alternatives already has an in, and wants to extend that to students. Other places they considered using for the Edible Campus Garden included paved area by chem. Building, other staircase by Sherbrooke. (i.e., There are a lot of potential spots for more container gardening)
• Professor Vikram Bhatt, Mcgill School of Architecture, directs the Minimum Cost Housing Group and collaborated with Rooftop Gardens to obtain space for Edible Campus.
• Another potential staff collaborator: Julia Bourke, Sustainable Design Prof in MSA
3. GOAT (Green On A Top) is a working group of the Sustainable McGill Project. One recommendation of SMP’s Sustainability Assessment was that there should be more greenspace on campus and that students should be involved in creating it (GOAT represented by Gillian, David et al)
• Fire escape box plan. Shannon Scott, building manager of MSE said MSE building could be used as a test ground, but it had to look really nice, and be maintained. Problems encountered:
• difficulty of meeting aesthetic standards (wood boxes filled with soil were heavy for fire escape, and were difficult to construct)
• students leave (exchange/graduation) and interest wanes when only one or two people are left carrying on work of a larger group.
4. Greenhouses? Possibility of renting space in StewartBio greenhouse. Concordia rents greenhouse space as well.
5. Possibility of using plot behind MSE for Shannon Scott would need a proposal: why we want to use the space, who we are, where the produce would go, what resources we have, and what we need.
• Tim Murphy from Santropol wanted to use this space for non-profit LocoLocal
• problem: he wasn’t a current student. we don’t have this problem, and we can utilize his help/experience in developing the proposal.
6. Questions of summer? Need someone to facilitate it, perhaps a paid job.
7. Soil testing class. Could be used.
8. Possibility of working with Hillel (3490 Stanley)
• People: Emily Litvek, Dove, Sarah.
• Desire for concrete projects, want to partner with organization at mcgill for projects.
9. Avenues of Collaboration:
• Gorilla composting (will be setting up giant vermicomposter in Shatner Basement
• Midnight Kitchen – if we could provide them with produce in the fall, could create a true local food system
• HAVE A FUNDRAISING/INTEREST-RAISING EVENT IN THE WINTER – ENVIRONMENT/ECO PARTY! (Plant sale?)
10. TASKS
• Proposal for Shannon Scott – who we are, why we want to use it, where the produce is going, what we resources we have, and what we need, any non students involved, liability – maddie and emma, rafe
• Looking into Hillel
• Joining GOAT to get working group status DONE
• Talking to professor Bhatt, and the architecture studio class. (perhaps leave this for a little while) - Curtis
• Stewart bio- contact info from Gillian - April
• Funding
1. EDIBLE CAMPUS GARDEN on Stairs to Nowhere (run by Rotem et. al.) Rooftop Gardens Project – collaboration between Alternatives (NGO) and Santropol.
• NOT a McGill organization, but uses space on campus and they want to make it permanent and increase student involvement.
• All the food grown goes to santropol roulant.
• Volunteer hours: Tuesday and Saturdays 9 30 - 12, Thursdays 4 - 7. (between two and fifteen people, between one and three hours, three days a week = 18-45 worker/hours per week to maintain edible campus garden)
• All plants are started at makeshift greenhouse at santropol roulant.
• They need help closing the garden, date is not yet clear but it will be to end of October (good opportunity for student involvement, we’ll send info on the listserv).
-Other Rooftop Garden Project gardens: senior homes, with a communal design, one on UQAM design building, Hotel School above Sherbrooke Metro, etc.
2. GOAL - start process of getting space for campus crops, options, delegating who is going to pursue those options, financing those options.
• Alternatives already has an in, and wants to extend that to students. Other places they considered using for the Edible Campus Garden included paved area by chem. Building, other staircase by Sherbrooke. (i.e., There are a lot of potential spots for more container gardening)
• Professor Vikram Bhatt, Mcgill School of Architecture, directs the Minimum Cost Housing Group and collaborated with Rooftop Gardens to obtain space for Edible Campus.
• Another potential staff collaborator: Julia Bourke, Sustainable Design Prof in MSA
3. GOAT (Green On A Top) is a working group of the Sustainable McGill Project. One recommendation of SMP’s Sustainability Assessment was that there should be more greenspace on campus and that students should be involved in creating it (GOAT represented by Gillian, David et al)
• Fire escape box plan. Shannon Scott, building manager of MSE said MSE building could be used as a test ground, but it had to look really nice, and be maintained. Problems encountered:
• difficulty of meeting aesthetic standards (wood boxes filled with soil were heavy for fire escape, and were difficult to construct)
• students leave (exchange/graduation) and interest wanes when only one or two people are left carrying on work of a larger group.
4. Greenhouses? Possibility of renting space in StewartBio greenhouse. Concordia rents greenhouse space as well.
5. Possibility of using plot behind MSE for Shannon Scott would need a proposal: why we want to use the space, who we are, where the produce would go, what resources we have, and what we need.
• Tim Murphy from Santropol wanted to use this space for non-profit LocoLocal
• problem: he wasn’t a current student. we don’t have this problem, and we can utilize his help/experience in developing the proposal.
6. Questions of summer? Need someone to facilitate it, perhaps a paid job.
7. Soil testing class. Could be used.
8. Possibility of working with Hillel (3490 Stanley)
• People: Emily Litvek, Dove, Sarah.
• Desire for concrete projects, want to partner with organization at mcgill for projects.
9. Avenues of Collaboration:
• Gorilla composting (will be setting up giant vermicomposter in Shatner Basement
• Midnight Kitchen – if we could provide them with produce in the fall, could create a true local food system
• HAVE A FUNDRAISING/INTEREST-RAISING EVENT IN THE WINTER – ENVIRONMENT/ECO PARTY! (Plant sale?)
10. TASKS
• Proposal for Shannon Scott – who we are, why we want to use it, where the produce is going, what we resources we have, and what we need, any non students involved, liability – maddie and emma, rafe
• Looking into Hillel
• Joining GOAT to get working group status DONE
• Talking to professor Bhatt, and the architecture studio class. (perhaps leave this for a little while) - Curtis
• Stewart bio- contact info from Gillian - April
• Funding
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