[GREN-Exec] next GREN meeting

[Greg Michalenko]

I vote for discussing journalism at the next meeting.


Gardens are pretty dull in the winter, but say a lot, often gloriously, when they are busy growing and luxuriating.  They also have many stories to tell.  I think the food "forest" should be left until the summer.


It could then be featured, along with a couple of other kindred initiatives, in a combined  discussion of the place of urban agriculture in a green, carbon-battling future community/society, and the social role of community gardens.  The finest local example of multiple green accomplishments is the expansive community garden at Rare that brings many individual gardeners together, provides an enormous quantity of fresh produce for the food banks of the Region, and also features novel experiments such as a construction to provide a nesting sanctuary for barn swallows, a species now on the endangered list.  It's also in Cambridge, which deserves more attention from us. It would be good for us to have a field trip.  We could make it a potluck picnic as well.


- Greg (member of the Waterloo Region Community Garden Council)


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From: Executive <executive-bounces at gren.ca> on behalf of Kevin Thomason <kevinthomason at mac.com>
Sent: Monday, January 27, 2020 1:58 PM
To: Susan Koswan
Cc: GREN Executive
Subject: Re: [GREN-Exec] next GREN meeting

Hi Susan,

Excellent ideas!  I really like both.  The editor might work best now with the food forest later in the season though either one or both could work well.  Keep moving forward from my perspective.

Cheers,
Kevin.

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On Jan 27, 2020, at 12:16 PM, Susan Koswan <susankoswan at execulink.com<mailto:susankoswan at execulink.com>> wrote:

Hi GREN exec,

Been giving some thought to a speaker for our next GREN meeting.

First thought was to invite my friend Nicola Thomas, who was instrumental at getting the Food Forest at Forest Heights Community Centre (where we'll be meeting). Then I thought that would be better for an early June meeting when we could actually see it in bloom. Then I thought maybe it's good to do it now in case anyone wants to do a food forest somewhere else, they'd have time to get some funding and make arrangements to plant in the spring. Nicola is available this time or in June. She just did a workshop at the Canadian Organic Growers Conference in Guelph this weekend.

The other thought was to ask the new editor-in-chief at The Record if he could speak for a few minutes about the challenges of local paper journalism, but also because he's avidly working on increasing the Record's coverage on local environmental and climate crisis issues, it might be a good opportunity for all of us to give our 2 - 3 minute updates on local issues. I haven't asked him yet, but would ask him if he could spend about an hour with us. Let me know ASAP if this is the option you'd like so I can ask him.

Thanks,

Susan K


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