This Semester

I thought we had a great partial e-board meeting on Saturday and the soup was delicious! Just as a quick recap of the stuff we talked about. We are gonna keep meeting on Thursdays starting at around 3.30 pm so be there this Thursday! We'll be composting as well as continuing to work on the chicken coop and possibly building a couple more raised beds that Bruce bought lumber for. The chicks are gonna come in mid-February but we won't put them in the coop until their big enough which will be a little while.

This Friday we are gonna sell t-shirts in the quad and get people to sign up for FEAST and the Sustainability Fund. Anyone who's free let me know so we can arrange a schedule.

In terms of events we are trying to get a table up in the garden for multipurpose use and then also coordinate with the art department to have the chicken coop painted. Let me know if anyone would like to organize that effort.

I also think that it would be fun to experiment with vermi-composting. We have to decide if we just wanna buy a smaller setup that would serve just the garden or if we want to build something a little bit bigger and handle more waste, especially food from the marketplace.

In terms of fun stuff to do this semester outside of working in the garden we are gonna arrange some weekend fieldtrips! I know Bruce is really interested in going to see a large-scale vermicomposting operation, maybe the one at Santa Monica College (which is 19 feet long, 7 feet wide and has 300 pounds of worms!). We are also hoping to make it to the Pitzer garden at some point and to Earthtrine Farm in Ojai in late March or early April. More details on the dates of those trips to come soon.