[Garden] Fwd: FAD Minutes :)

[Alicia Mah]

Hi Gardeners,

Here are the minutes with regards to the Food Awareness Day meeting. This
should be an excellent opportunity to promote the garden. If you are on
campus that day I would encourage you to come out and contribute to the
discussion (as well as get free food!)

Cheers,
Alicia

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Chaylene Grieve-Saunders <chay_lene at hotmail.com>
Date: Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 10:19 PM
Subject: FAD Minutes :)
To: fnb at lists.wpirg.org, alicia.mah at gmail.com, defriese at uwaterloo.ca


 Great meeting today folks! Thanks to everybody who came out, the creative
deliberation and the enthusiastic energy for the event. There will be
another meeting next Tuesday, at noon, in the WPIRG office. Come all, come
one :)

**

*Food Awareness Day Minutes*

Tuesday, March 10 12:00-2:00 in the WPIRG office

Next Meeting: *TUESDAY MARCH 17th at NOON*

*Participating Groups & Involvement*

UWSP (University of Waterloo Sustainability Projects) – Ashley as
representative

-          Waste Management

è Display board for group

è Also display facts about waste on campus

è Organize “waste display” of Food waste from SLC

-          Natural Landscapes

è Board on edible plants and NL projects

-          Board

-          Food Action Collective

è Interested in organizing to have local food/farmers for lunch serving

è Also interested in farmer’s worker rights/job security with
ever-increasing import market and corporate packaged food

*After discussion, Food Not Bombs would like for the Food Action Collective
to arrange for local farmers to donate their produce, and/or have it
purchased J Would the farmers you purchase the produce from like to attend
the serving?

Sustainable Foods

-          Working on a directory of sustainable stores (and groups?) in the
KW region. Including name, location, what sell, etc. Hopefully have this
ready to display

-          Hoping to do Rrroll Up The Rim Tim Hortons cups waste display.
Anybody interested in contributing to this can contact Sustainable Foods.
The more the merrier!

F-Tag

-          Doug will devise a board on GMO’s

-          General F-tag board will be set up

-          As well as “make UW campus Fair Trade” petitions

Simplicity Circle

-          Skill building booth / info

Community Gardens

-          Booth specific to UW campus gardening

-          Promoting planting party for April 1 at 6:00

Groups still awaiting confirmation for participation and/or what type of
involvement

-          UWVeg

-          R3Design

-          ESS

*Day’s Events\*

*Panel Discussion*

n  Proposed idea to have a panel discussion on topic “Complexity of making
Ethical Choices in the Food Market” – geared particularly to a student
lifestyle and available options in the KW region.

n  Possible panellists to invite include the following

-          Anna – Foodlink (Julia contact?)

-          Heather Majoury – health (whose contacting?)

-          Patrick – Fair Trade (Katie ask?)

-          Kelly – poverty (whose askin’?)

-          Moren – environment (Julia contact)

-          Somebody from Food Action Committee potentially?

n  Start time at *2:30* until...

*“How Much Do You REALLY Know?” Questionnaire*

-          A fact sheet – style not yet finite. Either True or False
questions and/or Fill in the Blank.

-          Idea is to have questionnaire that entices people to engage with
information provided at the event, to talk with booth hosts, and ask
questions to learn! (Printed on scrap paper, of course. And then recycled J)

-          Upon completion of questionnaire, whether all answers are right
or not, persons are allowed to take on item from the Freecycle booth.

-          Here we will have baked goodies, vegan cookbooks, random items,
FT chocolate, etc.

-          Any donations? We should start gathering.... maybe store them in
the WPIRG office?

-          All day

*Serving*

-          Want to begin serving at *1:00* until *2:20/30*

-          Need *volunteers* for cooking, set-up, serving, clean up, etc.
*Julia making a Doodle for this – doodle master! Please sign up for what you
can. Cooking would begin at 11:00. Set up at 12:45... clean up.. whenever
finish soup?

-          Asked CGC if we could use their kitchen, we cannot for they are
too busy those days.

-          Somebody needs to approach the working centre OR another
legitimate kitchen to see if we can use their facilities – takers?

-          Sarah à is it allowed to happen in the MPR? will ask Scott
Pearson shortly, get back to you tonight about it

-          Produce – ashley from uwsp will be contacted to see if she can be
in charge of obtaining the food. if transport is an issue, one of our
drivers might be able to pick it up. also, sustainable foods group (alice is
the contact) would be interested in obtaining foods. we should confirm this.


*Music*

-          Have invited a few artist friends to play music throughout day
and serving

-          Sarah foyo (musician) re: jam session

-          Will send out more finite info when confirmations abound

*Waste display: *

-          -is Ashley's Waste Management group in charge of doing fact
sheets/posters?

-          will alice take on the tim hortons cup display?

-          -how are we obtaining the waste on campus?

-          -I am giving scott pearson more info about the waste display just
in case it wasnt clear in our correspondence (better safe than sorry on
that)

*Itinerary*

11:00am               Set Up in the SLC. Cooking for serving begins. Maybe
music begins as well?

12:45pm               Set up for lunch serving

1:00pm                 Lunch serving begins! Hooray!

2:20ish                  Lunch MIGHT end – who knows

2:30                        Panel discussion begins “Complexity of making
ethical choices in the Food Market”

5:00                        Wrap it all up.

Missing anything?

*Advertising /promo-posters / board*

meeting *Wednesday* the 11th at *2:00 *and *Thursday* the 12th at *noon* to
complete the info board, and our promotional posters

-evan will do the advertising once we give him a poster?  does that include
the colleges, uw campus vision screens, sju also has a screen for promos,
poster run, etc?

- need to contact Warrior Weekends – who can do this?

*Invitations*

*Sarah dear, you are contacting most of these individuals – if you need a
bit of a load off, just ask!

-          FEDS food bank on campus

-          Food Services (ask about their food display board)

-          Reduction Committee (campus)

-          Food Advisory Board (campus)

-          Warrior Weekends

-          Foodlink

-          Contact ESS coffee shop

-          Women’s Centre (Ashley from FNB)

*Who do we need to contact still?

- -how will we articulate the big picture to all the action groups involved?



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