CUFSP Meeting Recap 3.2.08

1. Meeting recap
We had a short meeting to check in on where everyone’s at with the garden proposal and purchasing investigations. We will be in good shape if we can aim to have all the components finished by the end of spring break.
Here’s the current task list:
Hannah—garden implementation costs
Maddie—housing for interns
Kari—internship potential
Julia/Liz—contact Joe to meet w/ Sysco on purchasing; ask about brunch status
Rachel—working on garden resource contact list
Eric—working on club contact list
Andrew—working on seasonality/garden plan
Rickie--research potential speakers for Earth Week Panel
Becky--prepare request-for-support letter. working on prof/department contact list

2. Green Guerillas annual meeting

A potential source for good advice and gardener comaraderie

Tuesday, Mar. 11, 2008
6:00 PM - 8:00 PM

Community Church of NY
40 East 35th Street
New York, NY 10016

Each year we take an evening to come together as a community, tell stories of growth and involvement, and trade ideas that strengthen our collective action.
If you are a GGs member, a community garden supporter, or a gardener yourself - join us on March 11th.
Dinner will be served. Free t-shirts. Free raffle of gift certificates and garden tools.
Admission is free - please RSVP.

RSVP here

3. Chicken Article

Chicken farming in NYC—indoors?!

4. Unassigned tasks
We have lots of ideas but not quite enough people to enact them! If you are interested in getting involved in one of the following projects, please let me know:
--Screening of King Corn, possibly with CoreFoods
--Volunteer farm trip, with Tzedek Va’ad
--Tabling April 11th or 13th at the pre-frosh activities fair, 12:30pm-3pm.