MUAN Reminder: 5:00 Tuesday, 2/10 @ Coffee Makes You Black: A RESEARCH AGENDA FOR URBAN AGRICULTURE

[Julilly Kohler]

                                                                                           MUAN
                                                                TOPIC:  A RESEARCH AGENDA FOR URBAN AGRICULTURE
                                                                                                     Tuesday, Feb., 10, 2009
                                          

Dear All,

    This is the last minute reminder of Tuesday’s MUAN meeting at 5:00 at our default meeting site Coffee Makes You Black,  2803 N. Teutonia Ave. one block north of Center.

    Steve Ventura, Chair of the Dept of Soil Science at Madison is coming and bringing his colleague, Sam Dennis from Landscape Architecture to help facilitate  a discussion of what we want to know practically in order to create backyard gardens in the city, which are also some of the key research issues in urban ag: — what do we want to know,  what do we already know, what our information resources are, and what kinds of projects might help provide answers where we have knowledge gaps.

    What Steve would like to end up developing with us is  a research agenda for urban ag.  It’s what UW/Madison would be interested in pursuing with us to develop a good knowledge base to formalize and disseminate.

    See you all there, then...

Julilly Kohler, Feb. Coordinator.


    NOTE:  the group voted last time to change the meeting time to start at 5:00 and run to 6:30 or 7:00 rather than starting at 4:00 and trying to get out by 6:00.
If anyone wants to come at 4:00 and help set up,  have coffee and chat with others before the meeting starts, please do.  This is what the network is about.