Education - Kim
Howell-Costion presented “Building Healthy Soils,
with Emphasis on Lasagna Gardening”.
Kim spoke a
little on "double dug lasagna" gardening technique, the importance of
humus and Michael Melendrez' "soil secrets". Kim is a popular gardening instructor and has developed 15
organic gardening classes for high desert gardening conditions in Northern
Arizona. These classes have been offered at Coconino Community College and
Northland Pioneer College. Kim also has produced a video on the Double Dug
Lasagna gardening techniques that has proven effective for her time and again.
She designed and operates a community supported agriculture plant seedling
program for participants from her solar greenhouse located near Snowflake,
Arizona and is co-owners of Ashokala Gardens.
Business Meeting – Jim Mast
MG Coordinator Happenings - Hattie Braun
·
Conference
o The
next meeting is March 11th, 1:00pm at the Ext. OFF. 2304 3rd St.
·
Spring Class
- TH,
1-4:30pm. 2/5 - 5/14/2015, N. AZ Health Care 1000 N Humphreys.
- Jim
Mast will be giving a class on vegetables in a couple of weeks.
·
Home Show
o April
10, 11, and 12. Set-up April 9th,
tear-down April 12 and 13. Still need a
chair for this project. This year will
be free admission. We will occupy 8
booths to accommodate talks. Will not be
at the Dome; it will be held at NAU Fieldhouse,
located at 1050 S. Knoles Dr.
·
Earth Day
o Saturday,
April 18th at City Hall. – What we normally do for this is answer
garden questions and give a garden talk.
Volunteer sign-up sheet available at the table.
Financial report – Sue
Madden
·
PayPal balance is $188.20. We
should transfer $188 to bank account, $60 aprons, $190 dues, $61 raffle,$20
donations, $102 calendars. Current
balance $5229.29 plus the PayPal balance.
Vice President – Ed
Skiba
·
Looking for someone with audio/visual
expertise.
Committee
Reports:
Volunteer
Support – Crys Wells
·
Discounts at all nurseries for CMGA members
remains the same as last year. Cards
will be available for distribution next meeting, but if you need your card right
away please contact Crys.
·
For our current volunteer hours 28
individuals reported 339 hours (247.5 for 2014 and 91.5 for 2015)
2014 volunteer total - 4247
2014 education total - 694.5
2015 YTD volunteer - 91.5
2015 YTD education - 32.5
2014 volunteer total - 4247
2014 education total - 694.5
2015 YTD volunteer - 91.5
2015 YTD education - 32.5
Fund Raising – Debbie James – I am looking for someone to head-up the
fall clean-up this year. Molly Larson
will make herself available to talk about what she did last year to organize
this.
·
Aprons
$15 each – Loni Shapiro
·
Current
calendars half price $6 each - James Kasennich
·
Garden Tours - Colleen Tucker – is looking
for garden tour volunteers.
Continuing
Education/Blog – Loni Shapiro
·
March – Nicole Gregory Seed Starting
·
April – Ed Skiba – One hole at a time
·
May -Jim Mast - Small Community
Garden - Vegetable Gardening
·
June - Hattie Braun – Garden Flowers for Flagstaff
·
July - Resources for Extra Garden Produce (Art
Babbott/Community Market- Foodlink/Terra Birds - Food Kitchen - Hermosa Vida
- Restaurant) - still working on this
·
August - Grasses - Kirsten Olmon, MNA and Susan Lamb Bean, author
·
October – open
·
November – Linda Guarino – GMO’s
Blog – Loni
Shapiro
·
Market on the Move (flyer on the
blog) – Elks Lodge 2/18, 3/18, 4/15, 5/20 - 60lbs of produce for $15.
MG
Projects – Jackee Alston and Gili
Thomas - The letter was reworked for 2015 and available on the blog. We will start determining the number of grants CMGA can provide and how much money each grant will be. Advertisements for requests will get started.
Community Markets – Andrea Guerrette – will focus efforts in the Spring.
Community Markets – Andrea Guerrette – will focus efforts in the Spring.
Gardening Questions?
Can we start pruning trees and bushes. Yes.Next meeting: March - Nicole Gregory about Seed Starting
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