Farm Hack meeting notes from 3.14

[Lindsay]

Final meeting before the event - we went over how the event is going to flow, "set the table for the party" so to say and are ready to enjoy this! 

Attendees: Emily Duma, Stefan Meyer, Kristy Allen, Lindsay Rebhan, Robin Lee, Riley Harrison, Kirk Marschel

Riley from the Hack Factory joined us. They are excited to help out at the event, promote Minnefair and host a Farm Hack at their site for a hack/build day. Awesome.

• Emily's roomates will pick up the Peace Coffee, March 21st during the day at Peace Coffee office. 10lbs. Ask for Angelica. 
  
• Robin will pick up the sandwiches the day of the event, at Gigi's Cafe. 36th and Bryant, 822 W. 36th St. 
• Monica from Dinner on the Farm is donating compostable plates. She will bring them. 
• Kirk is going to do some video taping. Lindsay will take pictures. Hopefully other will document in some form as well. 
• Kristy/Mario will MC the first half of the day, Stefan will MC the second half of the day. 

Welcome table

Robin, Lindsay and Stefan will be at a welcome table. If someone registered check off list, if not have sign up sheets. If they registered, they get a bee stamp which gets them a sandwich. Duck tape name tags!!  ;)

Lunch

MC invite everyone to take a lunch break at 12:15, introduce the Hack Factory representative to speak, remind those with a bee stamp to pick up their sandwich by the big room. Others may find food at the Bike Center counter or Midtown Global Market. 

Prototypes

It looks like we will have the honey extractor, bike truck, ice cream bike, blender bike and cargo bike for demo. More bike mechanics will be on hand, from Hub and Calhoun Cycle. WOOT. Thank you Kristy for your work on this. 

To Do: (you have your lists, if I forgot something on here please go ahead with what we talked about in the meeting)  :)

Email Jane Shey - confirm literature for table for event - I noticed they posted the Farm Hack date in April in their newsletter. (Kristy or Stefan)

Bring the Bee Stamp - (Kristy)

Send designs to print to Lindsay (Stefan)

Write up design charrette guidelines and print (Stefan/Lindsay)

Email attendees with pre-event email, loop back with BLB on sandwiches, follow up with Nice Ride about trainer, Cream for coffee (Lindsay)

Print attendee list, Print Evaluation 1/2 sheets, sign up sheets (Lindsay)

Ice cream supplies (Lindsay/Nice Ride)

Feedback/Updates from Farm Hack Greenhorns Severine (Lindsay)

Purchase items with nonprofit discount; duck tape, tape for walls, markers, butcher paper roll,  (PRI/Emily)

Send Keynote ppt presentation to Severine for Farm Hack (Grant)

Get together PRI's event materials; projector, tea, carafes, easel/paper (PRI/Emily)

Buckets for coffee compost, video camera, cooler, ice (Kirk) 

***Organizers arrive 8:30 AM Saturday for set up.***

Agenda:

10 Social, welcome, coffee, walk around visuals on walls, tables, check out bike prototypes

10:30 Farm Hack Intro & Keynote  - Grant Schultz

11:00 Farming Needs Discussion - What we are designing for, building for, challenges we need solutions for - butcher paper/markers

11:30 Design Process - Beez Kneez Kristy/Karl and Stone's Throw Alex/Klaus (*If time before lunch, otherwise after lunch)

12:15 Lunch  (Hack Factory make a plug for their tools/workshops/resources/MinneFaire) (Start pedaling ice cream bike)

1:00pm Design Charrettes  (2 rounds + break, so people can switch) 

• Adapting Bikes/Specific Bike Builds - Designers/Bike Mechanic pairs
• Gather around a topic (water, compost, processing, cultivating, etc.)
• Open Hacks 

3:30pm Check back in as a big group - Report on Designs, Insights, Ideas, 

Next Steps discussion

Call for next event

Thanks Sponsors

Collect Feedback Forms

Find a Happy Hour

Next Farm Hack:

There was a lot of energy at the end of the meeting to finalize a date for the next farm hack. July 20th was the main suggestion. We know the next Minneapolis one would be hosted at The Hack Factory. This date needs to be floated by groups, people, PRI, Hack Factory etc. Questions on Sat or Sun. Would like it tied to a Twin Cities urban farm tour. 

We want to have a major call to action at the end of the event - it's time to innovate and build for small scale agriculture.

 

See you on Saturday!!!