Dec 1 meeting minutes...

[Gina]

Hi again-
Here's what I have in my notes from the December 1st meeting.
Attending were:
Bill Nickrand - looking for healthier lifestyle, healthy local foods
Wendy Knipe Bredhold - interested in organic and local food, food
security issues, food energy cost, detoxifying diets
Jennifer Wampler & Hugh Lippman - interested in local foods and the
"100 mile diet", both are food scientists who dare to drink raw milk!
Hugh works at Mead Johnson
Carl Little - co-owns "The Harvest Basket" new store in downtown
Newburgh, has family homestead with dairy goats, is an attorney with
experience in Washington, DC and also has worked with WAPF around
legalities of locally produced foods
Marty & Lisa Whitsitt - Have produced grassfed beef for 16 years in
Huntingburg at "Other Side of the Fence Farm". Marty is a natural
fertilizer dealer
Christine Bowen - new manager of the River City Food Co-op, interested
in local foods, community
Ryan Zaricki - a green builder w/ straw bale experience, interest in
connections between food, housing, permaculture, city revitalization
Suzan Ozel - interest in local food, has been in Evansville 3 years
and is seeing more awareness and "the right stuff" in that time, wants
to limit trash and consumer waste
Heidi Doss - lives on a 100 year old farm, has a home garden

Actually, I didn't take more notes on what was said (oops), but I
think it's great that we've begun a discussion. The most obvious
thing would be to be able to eat local foods ourselves. There was
considerable talk about Seton Harvest (www.setonharvest.org), a new
veggie CSA on the West Side. Locally produced beef, pork, lamb, and
poultry is around at various farms, and pastured eggs can be found in
health food stores but in my opinion need better awareness/labeling to
tell them apart from cage-free, organic, etc. Raw milk is available
from me through the cow share program, and probably from some
underground cow and goat folks but I actually don't have as much
information of that type as I perhaps should.
I do think this is part of a supremely important movement in the
right direction. Everything I've learned about farming, nutrition,
political structure, global economics, history, and sociology points
to local, sustainable agriculture in all countries as THE foundation
for a better world. Just governments thrive on it. Healthy children
grow up well with it. Hooray for Locavores!
Peace, Gina

[Jennifer W.]

Hi again,

I am forwarding this post below to everyone, including all who
attended the Dec. 1st meeting but have not joined the Evansville
Locavore Google group. It is very easy to get started. As a group
member you can send e-mail invitations to your friends or colleagues
or even local producers and business owners interested in living and
eating locally and/or discovering new customers in the Evansville
area.

Anyway, I just wanted to make sure everyone received this info from
Gina concerning the initial meeting in Newburgh. She has also
encouraged us all to fill in our profiles on the group site.
Prospective members can then learn more about our interests. And we
will be better able to communicate with one another.

Gina has plunged into Barbara Kingsolver's new book: Animal,
Vegetable, Miracle. Another good one is: Plenty, by Alisa Smith and
JB Mackinnon that describes a year of following a 100-mile diet. (See
also: 100milediet.org)

Thank you and Happy upcoming New Year to everyone!
Jennifer W.

PS: Below are amazon links to the books mentioned above (I don't know
how to make a hyperlink/link from a single word/am not even sure if
this is the right terminology--so if you do, please let me know) to
read opinions and reviews. Both are available at the Evansville
Public Library downtown.

http://www.amazon.com/Animal-Vegetable-Miracle-Year-Food/dp/0060852550/ref=pd_bxgy_b_img_b

http://www.amazon.com/Plenty-Woman-Raucous-Eating-Locally/dp/030734732X/ref=sr_1_1/002-5586219-0951214?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1175805651&sr=8-1