GROW
Hi all,
Last Friday was great! We got a lot accomplished and the garden is beautiful. Attached is a picture of some planters.
Here's the schedule for the next week:
Friday, April 18: meet at 1 pm at El Centro de la Raza. We'll make seed packets and discuss the event Saturday
Saturday, April 19: Fiesta table on Johnson field. Music is from 1 - 9, we'll probably be at the table from 2 - 6, in shifts.
Also Friday: There is a city garden meeting from 11 - 1 in Hokona Hall, Room 274. If you're interested, please come. We're making progress in planning some gardens with the city!
Also Friday: We're having a work day at the Barelas Community Center garden from 9 to about 12 and would appreciate all the help we can get. I can provide a ride and we'll have some breakfast. Please e-mail me if you can lend a hand.
Next week:
April 24: Growers’ Market 10 am – 2 pm, set up about 9:15. GROW will have booth complete with planter from Chuck at veggiegrowers.
The Carbon Neutral Film Festival
coordinated by Ragan
WILL RUN NEXT WEEK!, Mon-Fri (4/21-4/25)
Castetter Hall Courtyard Amphitheater (Biology Building)
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Mon: The Future of Food
Tues: Who Killed the Electric Car
Wed: What a Way to Go: Life at the End of Empire
Thur: The Power of Community: How Cuba Survived Peak Oil
Fri: A Convenient Truth: Urban Solutions from Curitiba, Brazil
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*Films begin at 6:30pm (I'll need at least two people to be at each film, especially for set-up and clean up)
*Set up will start around 5:45-6pm (including setting up tables, projector screen, solar trailer to electrical and a/v, food, etc).
*Tear down following films no later than 8:30pm.
*ALSO: If you have interest in helping with marketing and promotions we are still working on posters, news ads, email listserves, handbills, giveaways, etc.
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Please contact Ragan (matteson@unm.edu) to confirm your volunteer interests and Availability (and please include your best contact method and information).
Thanks and keep growing!
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Hi Growers,
Sorry it's been a couple weeks since our last activities.
Here's the low down:
COMMUNITY PLANTING
FRIDAY APRIL 11, 10am - 12pm
@ El Centro De La Raza (Mesa Vista Hall, East courtyard)
Join us in planting, seed exchange and pot luck!
We'll get to plant the awesome planter VeggieGrowers donated!
Here are pictures - http://www.veggiegrower.net/
We've teamed up with the UNM SUSTAIN! and the sustainabilities studies under the title: Urban Agriculture Community Enrichment Coalition (UACE Coalition) to get some growing underway.
Fiestas
Saturday, April 19, 2pm - 6pm
we'll have a table at the Fiestas on Johnson Field (following Spring Storm)
We need to get together to make seed packets to hand out
Thanks for all the great support!
If you have questions or ideas, please let us know!
Peace
SATURDAY at 11:45 am in the Cherry/Silver room, 3rd floor of the SUB
We want a big group to represent us! Please come by for just 1/2 an hour!
Afterward, we will work on the proposal.
THURSDAY from 11 - 1 pm
We will have a table at the Farm to College event in the SUB atrium
FRIDAY March 7 at 11:30 am
we will plant pots for the SUB balconies. meet on SUB balcony ready to get your hands dirty!
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Notes from meeting, Friday 15, 11:30 am in Maxwell Anthropology Courtyard.
The budget for next year is turned in! We’ll have a hearing soon, and we’ll need a few people to show up and say how great GROW is. I’ll let you know when.
The garden already has an entho-botanical focus, with lots of local food sources.
Met Connie from the museum, who was excited to let us plant. Planned to expand the middle planter so we can plant more in it. Erik is working on a map, so we can draw up plans for approval. (thanks Erik) There’s enough rock around the garden to use to expand the middle planter.
We also met Mary Beth Hermans (277-1400), who is the public programs coordinator for the Museum. A lot of groups come through the courtyard for presentations. Mary wants us the get rid of the middle planter so there’s more room for activities.
We’ll make more plans for this space as we start talking to more people to figure out what is really needed.
For now, we’ll start planting!
Friday Feb. 22 at 11 am we plan to meet to plant in the garden. Erik will bring lettuce and trowels, Travis and Kitty will bring shovels. Please come! Bring plants or tools if you have any to spare.
We also went to check out the space on Girard behind the fire station. It’s in a parking lot for the dorms, but it has a lot of promise. It’s just dirt (no grass!!) and a few trees.
We’d have to put up a fence around a small area (say 15x20) to start off. We need more information about water availability, composting, number of cars going by, the RA involvement, etc. We’ll find out more about this space soon!
Here are some pictures of the fire station garden. The square building on the bottom is the station, then right above is a parking lot. The backwards C-shaped area is where are garden would be, at the top of the C.
We’re still planning a meeting Wed. Feb. 27 in the SUB to look at the planters on the balcony.
We’ll also plan a seedling party soon. We’ll meet at Erik’s house to get some seeds started so we can transfer them to the garden later. Maybe we’ll get a chance to watch The Future of Food, a great documentary about genetic engineering in plants.
See you on Friday to plant!
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