Meeting minutes

We have gathered around in the den. Anticipation is high as we await the beginning of the first meeting of the 2011-2012 GreenHouse. Cookies are being snacked upon, and Ben has finished off the last one as Joanna finishes the last Tootsie Roll. And it begins...Stella speaks of the history of the GH (there is a large book of history, legends, and ancient myths of our fair house).
The question was posed "What would you like to see in the Green House this year?"
Sarah- An accepting house, where many people can coming together and share time together in a positive way.
Parker - Have a larger presence on campus, have positive associations for the GH, show people where we are and what we do
Deanna - GH as a home, but not an island. Working together but not closed off from the rest of Sewanee
Joanna - more events to have a larger exposure to different student (groups) on campus
Michael - students share idea with each other, sharing, teaching our skills to others, have others teach us their skills
Ben - nurture each other as a family, be there for one another as family and friends, help "sustain sewanee" to be more unified
Stella - wants the more familial feel, know every member of the GH
Tarver - agrees, drawing in more types of people, not just the standard environmentalist
MM - a place to grow, family under one roof while still at college, learning tool for us and others - becoming leaders and also learning about small every day tasks
Travis - exposure to new ideas
GH things - showering - using duck timer and taking military showers explained. we've decided that timing is not obligatory. it is encouraged because it keeps you accountable and shows people who come through the house.
Chores are currently being decided...the hat is being passed. our chores are chickens, kitchen, living room, love and joy, egg breakfast
Birthdays Parker - Feb 14
Joanna - Jan 6
Sarah - Nov 11
Ben Jan 14
Tarver - Jul 22
MM - April 24
Travis - May 26
Stella Nov 27
Deanna Aug 25
Michael - Sept 18
Deciding some year long jobs -
Treasurer = Parker
Scribe/Scrap booker = Tarver
Garden Manager - Stella
Captain Compost - Travis
Parker has idea for making a beautiful lawn
Think about moving bike rack
Some other stuff....

12.1.11 meeting minutes

Let's clean the kitchen!

Let's share the eggs! French toast time Friday night 7-9, then bring leftovers to the ATC.

Sam has a chair-crush on our plaid chair. April and Callie say he can't have it. Please?

Don't forget slaughter 8:30 Thursday morning.

Supper 4:30 or 5.

1 2 3 4 5

"Like Holden Caulfield... or Babe."

10.4.11

Bunny schedules should be sent out again.

Everyone tell Deanna you love her.

Clean your stuff out of the fridge! More than once a semester, ideally.

something about LXA and car washes.

New GHers come here whenever Ben says. By Wednesday.

4.3.11 minutes

Liason for GH garden party (new GHers should plan)? Sean and Katie
Egg breakfast next Saturday.
Donate some eggs—Sean will clean and donate them.
Callie got bunny feed. Bunnies should be let out every day, but we need to stay out there with them so they don't get dogged.
Something about sausage.
Pam's fiddler friend is coming--mini coffeehouse 23.4.11?
How to spend budget? Improve animals' lives. Expand chix yard.
Dr Haskell wants us to get the yard fenced in. A good idea, but we should do it in such a way as to not hinder access to the house (barrier between rest of campus and us).
Deerproofing student garden. Physical 8-10 ft barrier. Buy posts because we're lazy bums.
Lydia sold us a drum composter! we should go get it.
Clean out coop--Callie and Deanna.
Rabbits. Should start fresh next year so there's no pressure for the program to continue unless people really want to. Harvest them all at the end of the year? Discuss with rabbit project folks. Callie will organize a meeting for this Friday.
Who's taking care of the garden and chickens this summer?
Who for egg breakfast? 2 favorite professors and senior citizens.
electrofence. :)
VC and Dean Love?

6.3.11

50% of our poop is made of fungi and bacteria, says Callie.

Sandor Katz is getting here around noon, so if you want lunch at Julia's with him, meet at the GH at noon. The workshop is at 7:30; meet at 6 to clean up and set up.

Rabbits leave the nest next Tuesday.

Funny stories about people.

Minutes 27.2.11

something about applications.

SBK2011 YEAH!

Katie will organize critter care for spring break.

Rabbit babies--got wet, 2 died. Steps taken: heating pad under nesting box, plastic lining on most exposed walls. If you see Mary Michael around, thank her for being awesome and helping us get a heating pad.

Sandor Katz is here a week from tomorrow.

Chickens got their wings clipped today, but the newer ones will need it again before the end of the semester.

20.2.11 minutes

Carson’s not here.
Tuesday is Tater’s 31st day.
Supper Wednesday at McClurg. can we steal a room in the McClurg upstairs? Callie will look into it. 17:00 or 18:00 Wednesday. Callie will set a time and e-mail out.
We need to have an event at 21:00 Saturday for Merit scholars. Oreo Olympics, bonfire, jam.
we need tea, firewood, Oreos,
Katie and Pam will advertise for that.
jam for GH and friends of GH- don’t open it to the campus because there will be too many people.

Canning workshop after spring break.
Sandor Katz at the beginning of March. We will discuss at the next meeting, since we need Carson.
Compost Revolution- sign up to proctor the compost.

Food bank tomorrow leaving at 12:20-2ish.

Application 2011-2012

Click HERE to apply!

Applications are due before Wednesday, March 2.

minutes 13.2.11

Compost Revolution Week is next Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday. Callie’s pumped. Thursday 12:00 at the GH- make table tents. Be there. Also sign up for 15-min slots to proctor the compost. Wednesday we're going to layer compost by age in an aquarium so people can see how awesome it is. Serve dirt? decorate McClurg? Will they let us do these things? Hope so. Compost-infused water. :D

Chalk art graffiti festival on Sunday night.
Bunnies are due this weekend! Assuming they're pregnant.

No GH love and family time this week, because we have info sessions. Info sessions are Tuesday and Wednesday at 8.

Should the dining council meeting be part of Compost Revolution time? Nah.

How to stop people stealing mugs from McClurg? Have a mug-painting day, like the pottery painting things.

Applications for next year: omit resume requirement and choose-your-role; ask about bunnies, but this has NO bearing on whether you're let in or not.

Stuart and Stella are next year's GH directors!

Sean TMIed.

Mountaintop Removal tomorrow in Convocation Hall. Come hear Dr Potter talk about how bad 'splosions can be.

Eggy Brekky at 9:30 Saturday. Lots of eggs, sausage, mushroom sausage, egg casserole.

Lambda burned something bad, and now they want to earn indulgences by working in our garden...?

We need to get the info for Chelsea. Should this be done as a house?

We need tea. Sean and Deanna will make carrot cake for the info session. Can Katie make biscotti?

6.2.11

What’s the strangest place you’ve ever been?
Carson went to a bachelor party
Katie got stuck somewhere
Sean went to SAE
Rowan went to a sketchy strip club
Deanna went to a truck stop in OH where there were burning buildings and things.
Callie went to a game room at a hot springs in WY.
Pam went to a club in England with purple walls and was underground with frat sludge.
Thomas went to the set of Thirteen Going On Thirty
Chelsea stumbled across a cagefight.
Never mind, Pam went to the Mütter Museum in Pennsylvania.

Chelsea wants to know what's up with summer garden interns. Something fairly permanent should be established for our garden. The intern would combine the garden internship with something else. Chelsea thinks there should be more structure to the internship. Be sure the intern knows what's planted where! We should be thinking about our vision for the student garden before we pick interns so that we can have a good, detailed, productive sit-down with the interns once they're chosen. There's an alternative source of funding, which is the DuPont grant to the Sustainability Steering Committee. It would be nice to have some kind of mentor or advisor type. We also need a better system for the animals--since the intern is living with another farmer, it's not practical for them to come back twice a day for animal care. The deadline to apply for funding is March 1, so we need to STEP ON IT. Chelsea wants the garden managers to write down our goals, dreams, wishes, etc. for the garden this summer.

SANDOR KATZ IS COMING! Monday, March 7, probably. He will speak to the fungi class or ecology or Intro to Biology or something, but also give a workshop here, for which we will need to buy the supplies. Probably at 7:30. There's apparently an article about him in the New Yorker.

Oh whoops, we're behind on applications for next year. Carson will send out a cstudent tomorrow, and we should discuss the application. Tuesday and Wednesday at 8.

Egg breakfast was awesome. Only 6 invitees didn't show, the food was delicious, etc. We need spoons, forks, a spatula, and non-disposable plates.

Composting on Saturday was great. The GH will consider footing the bill for Team Compost's tarps.

Spiral herb garden - Callie will call Lizzie tomorrow. We should have a group meeting this week where we'll go and gather rocks, gravel, etc. The next week we'll advertise around campus and have a community effort to actually build the thing.

ALL-GH MEETING NEXT SATURDAY AFTER COMPOST (NOON) to get stuff for the spiral garden.

Garden manager meeting Tuesday at breakfast.

Sean is now the Green House pope. If you don't go to garden hours, Sean will send you guilt.

Kate, Callie, Deanna are on for egg breakfast on the 26th.

Might we invite all the environmental studies faculty to the next egg breakfast?

Minutes 30.1.11

Katie talked to Dr Smith about the garden. He wants to use some of the garden for his class. But not all of it. He wants to leave our plots and our raised beds, but use the rest of the empty space for his class. They’re going to fix up the greenhouse, expand the pavilion, build a fire pit, and other awesome things.
Garden here: spiral herb garden! Build it soon, so we can plant it in the spring. But there’s not much sun there. It does get afternoon sun, though, so it’d probably be fine. Callie will research. Start building 2nd week of February? Feb 7.
Garden managers meeting to set garden hours. Finish raised beds and get them filled before it gets warm. Start seed babies.
GH family time Thursday 5-7.
Saturdays=standing date at the Grundy County Food Bank. Thursday is the day they need us more, but it’s harder for us to get there then. Callie and Sean perhaps go? Carson and Katie on Mondays?
April is working on the calendar.
Carson is setting up dinner with the VC.
Carson is working on a proposal for Sandor Katz to come.
SMB this weekend. Carson invited 35 people: EMTs plus Earthkeepers. 9:30 AM. Carson needs to know how many people to plan for.
Hedwig got out 3x today. Thus, we should no longer put her in the tractor, which apparently is not hard to escape from.
What was the craziest thing you saw this weekend?
- Katie saw the chickens fighting and almost took out a bunch of Fijis with her car. Also, she saw some guy dancing shirtless on a table. He fell off.
- Callie hid from her entire sorority in order to compost.
- Carson also almost took out a bunch of Fijis with his car and wound up further from the road than he had intended.
- Deanna had a positive contra dancing experience.
- Kate escaped.
- Sean escaped with fish. And was mistaken for Bacchus.
- Rowan saw some lawyer handing out his business cards to frat boys “in case they need help.”
- April got kicked out of the weight room.

GH Meeting 23.1.10

GH meeting 2011
Carson got an iPod.
Deanna is in charge of baking bread for the people who watched the chickens over the break. Do we have any of our flour left? Callie didn’t LIKE it. She says it was DIRTY. Because it came from the GROUND.
Help Deanna and friends make bread Thursday.
Deanna hung out with 80-year-olds. Apparently it was enlightening.
Team compost got the truck stuck at the leaf dump, so WATCH IT if you’re out there. The truck’s gone now—mud’s not. They’re composting 200-400 lbs of otherwise-waste per day.
Feb 1—Carson will submit request for Sandor Katz to come back.
We also need to have the VC over. sometime in February? something about Dean Hartman.
Leg+Carp or whatever—we need to be more proactive/organized so that everyone knows what they need to do to get things done.
Make an effort to go to the garden regularly—it’s the unifying thread for all GH members/endeavors.
We should also hang out more as a house. ‘Nother retreat? Dinner?
GH mini-retreat Friday 4-7.
FALAFEL.
Chicken yard is gross. How to fix? Fill it with a bunch of leaves and let them pack it down. Would mulch be good? Group activity!
Beautify the garden!
Sid Brown’s Buddhism and the Environment will use the GH garden. We’re supposed to teach them something.
Herb garden on top of the mug shelf or somewhere?
Shelf for transplant seedlings under living room window
Senior center could use help preparing lunch for people and doing dishes afterwards. They do it every day. They need substitutes. They start at 10:30 or 11, serve at noon, and then clean up.
Grundy County Food Bank- can take a van down on Monday afternoons and Saturday mornings (8:00-10:00).
Labor exchange for garden work. Work for food, pay, or free, and she’ll match you up with someone you can help.
April wants help making a calendar on Wednesday.
JAM? Kate and Callie will organize.
Check the chore chart.
SMB sometime.

Meeting minutes 06.12.10

Do we want someone to replace Stuart (in body only)?
-nah—give Carson the single.
GH director selection—Callie and Carson will conspire.
When are admissions? sometime. Something about chickens.
Chickensitters! Kate, Thomas, and Callie will organize.
Carons hears chickens sounds, there are feathers everywhere. He runs out there, and this chihuahua’s got one of the chickens going rrrr rrrr. He grabs it and nearly kills the thing, then he grabs the other dog and shakes them for aw hile, and the little dog bites him, and he …ask Carson.
We need better fencing for the ladies to guard against attacks.
On Monday and Tuesday (of exams), Callie will do nice things for the GH. Or something. Clean chicken coop, water/food containers, etc. Help if you’re around?
Are they getting enough daylight? We should use the light timer.
We should get pellets for the bunnies. Callie will go to Tractor Supply on the Monday of exam week.
Deanna needs people to help with yard maintenance stuff for Folks at Home. Next Monday or Tuesday.
Delicious parsnips in the garden! No one knows where they came from!
Carson e-mailed Sandor Katz, he’ll come do another workshop next semester.
Another Arm&Trout next semester?
Dana (Parlours) wants to put Sewanee on her next tour, but she wants pay this time. Lambda maybe. Thomas is in charge of handling that.
Compost Revolution Week: it won’t be microwaved. Intensive propaganda, potentially violent, ideas? Talk to Callie. Slide show for compost conference.
Instead of standing in front of the bins—have drawings. Paint the bulletin board! Need instruction.
We should babysit Stuart’s plant while he’s abroad!
Help Carson come up with roles for the GH to go on Rocco’s chart.
something about fartichokes.
GH retreat 16th-17th. Some people go in the morning. Some come later.

Meeting minutes 14.11.10

What was the most hardcore part of your party weekend?
Thomas went to LXA sat 1 am to hang w/ sketchy alums. Also, he cut himself trying to light a candle. Never allow him to live this down.
Rowan got kicked out of TKP because he’s too awesome for them, and they were threatened.
Callie took a nap.
Katie dumped leaves in Carson’s room.
Stuart was in Richmond kicking all our bums at a marathon.
Sean was working on grad school applications and bought $100 of coffee—COME TO ARM&TROUT. Or don’t, and then we’ll drink the coffee.
Carson won’t let me record the most hardcore part of his party weekend. Carson is HC King.
Kate bought a fiddle. Sean played a note on it.
Deanna had a farty weekend.
April did fall party things, and some guy tried to lick her face.

Callie and Thomas want people to compost their shit. This will be accomplished with oil-based paints. Also, we’ll have people proctoring the compost intermittently.
An Aramark lady wants stats on compost for a bulletin board per Rick’s request, because he’s awesome.
Katie and Callie need to see Dr Haskell.
Write thank-you note for the guy who donated books to the library.
Moths in wheat; Deanna will look through it and either compost it or grind it.
We like Dr Torreano.
April threw the sponges out. Carson washed the towels. April washed them again. KEEP THE KITCHEN CLEAN.
Carson’s bringing a food dehydrator back after Thanksgiving, because he’s awesome.
Mountaintop Musicians have reserved the equipment for Arm & Trout. Needs to be picked up Friday.
Artists need to drop off art on Friday.
Send out a cstudent tomorrow.
Guerrilla coffee grinding at the Pig Saturday morning. Percolation to follow, says April. But this is contingent on finding percolators.
Buy tea! And half-and-half.
Use our wheat to make baked goods. Threshing party Tuesday 1-3 or sometime before dark. The other Tom Sanders has a wheat grinder.
Carson’s going to an interview this weekend. Wish him luck.
WHERE’D THE INTERNET GO?
Thomas will drive people from Bowling Ball to Arm & trout.
Rabbits: sell Thistle back to the guy or trade him; otherwise, sell him and buy a doe from Jess or someone.
Hang posters for Arm & trout!
Rowan may have found his rice bowl. April lost a book. It’s red.

Arm + Trout Next Weekend!

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Meeting minutes 7.11.10

7.11.10
Armentrout weekend after next (Saturday 20.00)
Bowling Ball or something interferes with A&T—proceed as planned and deal with slightly lower attendance/performing body. Open mike, but we need to have people scheduled. MC (most likely Cain) will be in charge of making sure someone is always performing. We don’t have time to do paper invites to potential performers, so FB and e-mail. Pam will do e-mails tonight. Rowan will make a FB group.
Grind coffee at the Pig? Rowan’s got a hook-up. Sean will buy coffee this weekend.
Posters should go up at least a week before the event.
House- April, Deanna, Katie
Publicity- Pam, Rowan
Getting folks- Carson, Thomas, Callie
Coffee/projector-Sean
talk to McGrath about borrowing bio mugs
BYOM-Bring your own mug!
Couchsurfers
Mike/coffee and perc/tea/PEOPLE
Callie wants to talk about rabbit anatomy and such half an hour before the meeting once a month
Egg breakfast—CoHo would like to help out with future ones. Get our mugs back from the CoHo!
Something about composites and frats.
Close your storm windows—the heat’s on.
Worms? Feed them.
IF YOU ARE ON COMPOST CHORE, you are in charge of the compost bins on the GH porch. Dump occasionally and cover with an equal amount of leaves.
Hang out on the attic or porch, not on the roof.
Bonfire party Thursday night?
April will get blender, Kate will make pesto.

The Slightly Digestible Jerusalem Artichoke

Thanks to the Jump-Off boys, we've been propagating a native root, the Jerusalem Artichoke. Not from Israel and nowhere near an artichoke in taste, these are more related to the Sunflower. We recently dug these roots up as their vibrant yellow flowers wilted with the arrival of the brisk autumnal air. We found out the hard way that these tubers aren't digested properly by our enzymes and should be eaten with extreme moderation. They store energy as a inulin, not starch as we are used to consuming. In my internet perusing, I've found a great summary of the consequences of over consuming these accurately nick-named "fartichokes." Gerard's Herbal, printed in 1621, quotes the English planter John Goodyer on Jerusalem artichokes: "which way soever they be dressed and eaten, they stir and cause a filthy loathsome stinking wind within the body, thereby causing the belly to be pained and tormented, and are a meat more fit for swine than men."

Perhaps chickens or rabbits would like them?

Rabbit Info Session.

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Meeting minutes 31.10.10

GH mtg 31.10.10

We’re late.

We have food to use up. Kate will make basil pasta sauce.

Here's a bread recipe:

3 c. HWW flour
1 t salt
1/3 c. milled flax seed
1 T yeast
1 ¾ c. water
2 T fat
3 T. sugar or honey

Who has been t o the garden? If you haven’t, do.

Carson wants us to go to the garden.

Katie’s badass.

April got a haircut.

Awkward people at frat parties are funny.

Carson also wants more people to do compost.

Callie says no.

Rabbit meeting at 7: Rabbit group will meet this week. Ask professors to come for moral support and useful info?

Library! Dr Potter has books, and we have some books already. We need to go through them and OK things—legal documents are in there. Info on grant writing and such.

Callie doesn’t like the book Women.

Do we accept books that may not be immediately pertinent to Greenhousey things? Yes

Thomas wants a stamp.

“I’d like the stamp to be handmade.”
Callie: “Yeah, you could make it out of a potato.”
“Or a piece of rubber.”

April wants to have a meeting about Armentrout food and such. Katie, April, Deanna.

How to grind coffee? Better if fresh-ground, but will we be able to use Stirling’s?

Who should be MC? Cain?

Armentrout is CLOSE! Invites should go out within 10 days of now.

Print services for invites.

Couchsurfers come next Wednesday.

Egg breakfast next Saturday. Kate and Pam will invite the CoHo. Pam will make invites, Kate will make casserole.

Projector for Armentrout?

Does anyone need stuff from ATL?

Minutes for GH Meeting 10/24/2010

Callie 8:22—exciting events next week: Sat. Dead Poet’s Night—music, poetry readings, make a list of people who would be good to invite? Write names on the white board in the kitchen, Thomas to get people on the Mountain Goat. Send out a Sun. C-student email, Facebook event, put out the fliers.

Art Forum is showing Rocky Horror Picture show here. We need to tidy up the house, they will bring food and movie stuff and publicity.

Wed. Nov. 3 Rabbit discussion. Pam and Rowan need to make fliers. Rabbit Team (Kate, Katie, Sean, Rowan, Callie) meet in the morning for a discussion.

Carson 8:30—Rabbit books? Website? Some informational source for interested parties.

Sean 8:30—People need to get reimbursed for money spent. We have a $3000 budget left to spend, only spent $500.

Carson 8:32—Do not worry about the budget when there are things that need to be spent.

Armentrout dates? Two or three people to get people here, two to three people to organize the house and get it ready for the evening.

Working on the House: April, Deanna, Katie.

Need a projector. Sean to get one from the LAL.

Need to get coffee percolator and coffee. How much coffee? 10 pounds!!

Cake from the Blue Chair or Julia’s

ATS and ATC have sound equipment. Email them and ask them.

Getting people here: everyone needs to come up with five names of people who could come and email Carson. Carson, Thomas, Callie to create a schedule of people to play. Rob McCallister as the MC? Laura Candler? Elspeth Iralu?

Publicity: Pam, Rowan emails, classifieds, fliers, chalk

Callie 8:49—We should donate the eggs this week.

April—We should make a calendar and put it on the wall so that we can see what people are doing and what events are happening in the house. Someone check out the attic and see if a white board is up there.

Kate 8:51—Nov. 10^th couch surfers need a place to stay and a place to play a show. We will host them and make them dinner

Carson 8:54—No Impact Man Thursday night at GPS in Chattanooga. Callie is going with Chelsea. Anyone who wants to go talk to Callie (but be careful cause she is really mean. She cra- cra-)

The fireplace works! But make sure that the vent is open and that the doors are closed.

Found Beta’s composite in the woods. Looks like a skunk peed on it.

We should start unplugging stuff like vending machines and televisions.

Callie 9:04—Could we host people for Multi Cultural weekend? Nov. 4-6

It’s not too late to join Team Compost. Meeting tomorrow on the balcony of McClurg at 7. 600 pounds of compost per day!! Planning on going to other places around Sewanee.

Carson 9:11—How do we preserve things from the garden? We should start dating food in the fridge.

Turn off the lights dudes.

SSC still needs ideas to be contributed.

Come to the garden. It’s where we can love each other. It’s where life begins. And hopefully won’t end. When you’re there.

Cherry tomatoes are ready to pick. Basil is out there. Make pesto pronoto and put it in the freezer. Harvest most of it but leave some leaves.

We should start canning. Callie knows how to can. We should have a canning workshop!! Don’t be passive aggressive. Be aggressive aggressive.

Sean 9:20—We should do more things together. We should have pasta night with the basil pesto.

April—Could people be more sensitive to early and late hours in the kitchen. Katie and April can hear everything that people say and get woken up by people talking.

It’s Kate’s birthday on Tuesday! We should have dinner! Pam’s b-day on Nov. 6!