Sprouts Focus Meetings

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2-22-2009
Sprouts Focus Meetings


1pm Community Liason: How are we planning on working with and for the
community this spring and in the future? How are we going to decide
where to put our neighborhood plot?
1. Block Nurse program:
a. Path for distribution of food
b. Help with not only garden, but maybe landscaping
c. Exchange program – grow food on land, and in return give them
produce, mow lawn, etc.
d. Demonstration project (pilot program) for first year – one yard,
have a good model for next years to grow
What we can give:
1. Pilot project:
a. 10x10 or 10x20 plot in yard or
b. 2 to 5 hours a week volunteer
c. Planting, weeding, watering, harvesting
2. Produce from our garden plot behind Spanish/Hmong Houses
3. Plot behind UMC dedicated to growing produce for distribution in
the Block Nurse program

This is a possibility and it may not happen this year, we are a new
project, but we want to keep it open for the upcoming years.
Next Steps:
Margaret and Nick will write up an email to send to Block Nurse
program and Amy Schultz at UMC

Hamline Midway Elders/Block Nurse Program:
651-209-6542
HM Elders, 1514 Englewood Avenue, St. Paul, MN 55104
1. Beth Reedy Hanson, Program Director: pro...@implexmail.com
2. Monica Gallagher, Service & Volunteer Director:
volu...@implexmail.com
Hamline United Methodist Church:
651-246-0497
1. Amy Schultz:aschu...@gmail.com

Art in the Garden
-Make medallions for planters

2pm Garden Design/Seed Selection/Ordering: What the heck are we gonna
plant?
Camy’s dad and uncle – can give us transplants of heirloom peppers,
tomatoes, jalapenos
Start inside: tomatoes, peppers, cabbages,
Tomatoes, zucchini, sweet potatoes (iffy), potatoes (too much space),
jalapenos, beets, onions, garlic, green beans, eggplant, collards,
broccoli, salad greens/spinach (cool season)/kale, radishes, cabbage,
turnips, kohlrabi

Spring planted/cool season: Peas, kohlrabi, spinach, broccoli,

Peas, spinach, lettuce direct seed

Spring/cool season: radishes, salad greens, broccoli

Asparagus – perennial future plant – 2-3 years, pilot project

Trellis: cucumbers, squash, peas, zucchini

Cucumber, squash, zucchini don’t like to be transplanted

Edible Ornamentals:
- Steph and HMEG has been talking to Ken about edible ornamentals
- Herbs in planters, not so much in garden
- Tea plants

Education at the same time we are growing things
Master Gardeners can give lecture or slideshow for FREE – honorarium
maybe, Hamline sponsor?
- Sarah Jay Cocks – Coordinator for Ramsey County 651-704-2063

3pm T shirt Breaktime--eat food, decide on tshirt design (this would
be a great time for those people to come who don't really want to be
involved in the planning process but want to stay in the loop!)

4pm Fundraising and Donations: What do we want? How are we going to
get it? Letter-writing, applying for grants, etc..
1. Soil donations
2. Bank Account
3. Basic fundraiser for start-up funds
a. Bake Sale
b. Selling little plants
1. Clone plants
c. T-shirts



Meeting times: Sunday at 4
Agenda for Next Sunday
- Margaret - Block Nurse
- U of M Extension service – Master Gardeners
- Dustin April 1st Wed. Sarah Jay Cocks – rc...@umn.edu
- Garden design – Erin, Dustin, Margaret, Jesse
- Real Foods Summit $25 meals and lodging
- Retroactive conference fund?
-Emma contact Mac people Allison Stewart
Dustin, Erin, Emma,