Meeting: February 17, 2011

Location: Old Courthouse Meeting Room
Attendance: 19 of which 3 were youth
 
Minutes: Due to a speakers time restrictions the meeting was a bit backwards starting with: 
     - Info Lecture by JoEllen Parent about our local Lexington and Rockbridge Farmers Markets.
     -Take note of the Give Away table for giving away of itmes give and take freely.
     - Stacey presented good news as we are very close to having a club bank account!
     -Secretarys report was read by Jesse and announcement made about Lending List. Please get info in about items you want to have added to this list for it to be compiled onto one! 
     -Cookbook project update from Kim- would like to form a committee for this as it seems alot of work for just one person to decide on things like design, fund raising, sales, marketing, layout, types of recipes and arrangements of recipes. 
     - Barbara spoke about survey results and scores with printout of explanations summarizing the most popular interests among the 6 that responded to survey in time. Results as follows listed as most interest to least interest per subject. 
     - Poultry- (1) Coup tour attendee (2) Hatching eggs (3) chicken healthcare (4)candleing eggs (5) co-op butchering (6)Poultry shows (7)coup tour volunteers
     - Garden and Orchard (1) successful composting (2)insect profiles (3) fruit tree pruning (4) herbs for health (5) seed starting (6) gourds (7) Broom corn.
     - Kitchen- (1) building & using solar dehydrator (2) pickling (3) how to make and use earthern ovens.
     - Local Foods- (1) farmers Market
     - Misc. Skills and Crafts (1) elementary woodworking (2) intro to green building (3) analyzing natural products (4) beekeeping (5) analyzing energy saving products (6) basket weaving (7) Making whatever.
     - New Ideas - (1) canning (2) chicken breeds (3) raising earthworms for fertilizer
     -Some discussion from Elizabeth for Pat about poultry chain and co-operative chick ordering.
     - Kim- chat on Gardening getting seeds started, what to plant in March including beets, carrots, collards, mustards, potatoes, and radishes. Starting seeds demo in recycled containers such as pastic donut box or plastic salad box that can be used as a mini greenhouse when placed in sun. Passed out pea seeds to get started with. 
     - Elizabeths chat on finding and harvesting wild watercress, a natural antidote for curing scurvy and a high resource of vitamin c. Included was a recipe for watercress soup and we were well instructed how to wash to keep from getting the giardia bug!
     - Chat from Hannah and Cheyanne about buying and hatching eggs from hatcheries and breeds comparing Barred Rocks to Domineckers telling differances by things like eggs, combs and body type. 
     - Brief Q&A with Dawn Paul. 
Meeting Closed 


-JEPC


Board Meeting Followed with some great plans for future meetings.