[Garden] Fwd: food awreness day meetin' minutes

[Alicia Mah]

Hi Jason,

Sorry I thought chaylene said she would send this out to the garden. here it is.

alicia


---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Chaylene Grieve-Saunders <chay_lene at hotmail.com>
Date: Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 1:55 PM
Subject: food awreness day meetin' minutes
To: alicia.mah at gmail.com, defriese at uwaterloo.ca, aytingb at gmail.com


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Food Awareness Day Minutes

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

Next Meeting: TUESDAY MARCH 17th at NOON

** need 2 questions from every group pertaining to information on
board for questionnaire. Pick two questions that reveal the most
important information that group wants event attendees to leave with J

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 – most common waste on campus

è Organize “waste display” of Food waste from SLC

*empty dumpster of waste

*in coordination with S.F. for tummies take-down

-          Natural Landscapes

è Board on edible plants and NL projects



-          Food Action Collective (Asha)

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

*Ashley will organize with FAC to get local food for serving – anybody
who wants to come cook on Thursday, march 26th at 5:30 at the working
centre – entrance on Charles St. Side.

*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 (alice)

-          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 (laurel & Alicia)

-          Skill building booth / info

Community Gardens

-          Booth specific to UW campus gardening

-          Promoting planting party for April 1 at 6:00 at WPIRG

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

UWVeg

-          Tons of boards on a ton of great things

UW Farmers Market (heather Kelly)

-          Through food services

-          Doing a booth on farmer market

-          HK said would get in touch with all food services managers etc



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 (sarah contact?)

-          Patrick – Fair Trade (Ashley WILL contact – also ask about
Fair Trade chocolates)

-          Kelly – poverty  chaylene askin’?)

-          Somebody from Food Action Committee potentially?

-          Chaylene ask Sandra

-          Chaylene confirm with Matt et Erin

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?

Posters

ES – Ashley

CGC – Chaylene

STJ, Renison, STP – Sara

SLC – done

Sciences - Alice

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)



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