On the calendar and NOTES from our Gathering on April 7th, 2009
We have chosen to focus our energy on a pre-existing garden space and give the Project MANA garden more love, more art, more kid energy, more veggies, more music, more.....
http://www.re-generation.us/media.html (Check this out from my friends in Colorado)
1. Dana and Mike have a great space with a projector for viewing movies to inspire us. Tamara and Pete have some to share.
2. Lettuce Turnip the Beets Harvest Hoedown! (Any artists to design t-shirt, stickers?)
How about a Food Art contest for the kids... and us too!
3. A bike ride tour map around Truckee to check out others gardens (Invite collaboration with Green Bikes?)
A big heartfelt thanks to those who could participate this week!
Cari would love to share gems from the Masters in Sustainability grad school that her and Monique went to in Sweden and will be sharing pieces of paradigm shifting leadership, community transformation, and sustainability throughout. If you have something to teach, please lettuce know and we can add it to the agenda. And remember that our new growers may be wondering how to start seeds. All this knowledge you have is so valuable!
Judy brought her friend Arnold, whose been growing here since 1960. He shared with us what he grows and could use some more help with those pesky squirrels. Check out the blog to see what Arnold grows www.homegrowntruckee.blogspot.com Thanks to Judy for her productive inquiry and to Arnold! It is truly beautiful to tap into the wisdom of the area.
We welcomed Tamara to HGT! She brought us eggs from her nine chickens from her home in Sierra Meadows and will be building a greenhouse this year with thermal mass of a combination of water and rocks so her family can grow year round! If you're interested in learning about greenhouse design for our area, you can learn more as this project is constructed. She inspires to nourish her family from food grown closer than 250 miles away. Tamara is also excited to create a mini CSA for us local growers, where we trade once a week our food stuffs. Maybe, I'm the lettuce queen, and you've got the juiciest tomatoes!We also welcomed Pete to the group. His family has grown veggies here and his zucchini did great! Pete is excited to dedicate a plot to his dear friends who've recently experienced a great loss, and has a small truck to share. His interest is especially focused on growing with kids and families. He is willing to help transport food scraps to the compost at Project MANA at the Truckee Park as centralized compost is key to our success. Pete is also a permaculturist and can help us adopt permaculture practices into our garden.
And our other newcomer was Dana, of Papoose Preschool and Infant Care. and they will be building more planting beds from scrap wood this year and a cold frame with used sliding glass doors. She is a seasoned grower and spearheaded an awesome school garden when she taught in Arizona. Right now her and Mike are teaching the little farmers about eggs and seeds, and are excited to plant at Papoose in Armstrong Tract. Dana also has a great space for viewing movies at her and Mike's home.
Scott has a greenhouse in Prosser and is offering shelf space for starts! Scott's next to host and perhaps share with us the recipe from the yummy dessert he brought :)
Mike will be contacting Project MANA to see if we can give it the love this year. At the least, we will have plots to cultivate. He also can help us with food scraps from New Moon for your own compost pile if you bring a garbage can, and will be supporting the Project MANA compost as well.
We are streamling our Information share and have a Blog.
Go to: www.homegrowntruckee.blogspot.com
See at the top, login: username: homegrowntruckee password: hgt96161
You can then View Blog..... and also choose New Post and create an entry. This can be a poem, a recipe, what you did in your garden today, what your confused about....a vision or an idea... Lettuce practice transparency with one another and keep the knowledge flowing.You will also notice a place for Labels. This will help keep the blog organized and easy to search. Maybe you label it,... recipe, asparagus, Tamara... etc.
You'll notice once you log in, that the posts have an icon of a tool, like a wrench, at the bottom right corner, this is the edit button. you can click this on and edit a previous post.
If anyone is challenged by the blog, I can help walk you through it.
Also, Melissa Siig, who writes for SoulFood of Moonshine and Sierra Sun, will be interviewing Homegrown Truckee in May for a June article. woo hoo!!
Lastly, thanks for bringing something small to share at our salad mix-up dinner! Its amazing how we can inexpensively eat well together!
Much love and soulshine,
Cari 973-229-8623
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