Meeting: Saturday 3rd February 2024 @ 10:30am
Join Online Meeting: https://meet.google.com/ksz-pzje-dzq
Homework:
- Fill out the Morris Lawn, Salt, & Tree Care Survey.
- Check out the Morris Model Strategic Plan 2.0.
- Check out the RSDP Draft Idea Brief on the Stevens Community Emergency Food Preparedness Plan from Vern, @SandySunshine, and @mgm.
Agenda:
- Community Check In
- Announcements
- Spring community clean up?
- Lawns to Legumes Fall Applications Open
- Project Optimist
- What are Resilient Lawn next steps?
- Meet with others? Park Board?
- Newsletter!
- Updates from meeting with Troy
- New Draft from Syd, fun to get it out while its still winter.
- WCMNCN communication strategy ?
- If we are planning to do further engagement, education, and outreach into the community would it be a good idea to sit down and develop a “communications strategy?”
- Next Meeting
- March 2nd 10:30am?
Meeting Notes:
@SandySunshine detailed meeting notes:
February 2024 Meeting WCMNCN - Google Docs
- Community Check In
- @syd is eating so many strawberries!
- @jeff is having conflicting feelings about climate change winter
Crystal is also wrestling with the confusing weather. She is starting a new job with RSDP!- Joel is a WCROC scientist and he is thinking about engagement and how to get more people involved in the climate work
- Vern is a community activist, he is thinking about what is happening to our local fields because of this weather, he is excited to see friends working on good projects!
- @wenkaiguan is reducing carbon emissions in the computer rooms at UMM and UMN!
- @nic_mcphee is confused about the veggie garden?! Should he be doing things?! (no, the answer is no)
- @Susan_Gilbert makes art! She is noticing that most people seem to be aware of the strange weather.
- @cberthiaume is thinking about how to how to put together what they have learned in their service into a coherent report
- @sandysunshine is thinking about processed food & sourdough. She is engaging in practices to improve what she is putting into her & her family’s bodies.
- Bri is thinking about finishing up senior seminar and doing math with middle schoolers.
- @mgm is thinking about grocery shopping bags and how she can reduce the plastic usage.
- Can we ask Willie’s to put a sign to remind folks to bring in their reusable bags?
- Announcements
- Spring community clean up, if there is interest we might do this to meet up and do some good actionable work in the spring!
- Lawns to Legumes Fall Applications Open
- Project Optimist
- Land Stewardship Project is having a dinner and dance here in Morris this week - Policy Dinner and Member Social in Morris, MN.
- Lawn Survey is still live! Final Survey - Homeowners/Renters
- Sandy bought mushrooms from Northern Mushroom in Glenwood! - Northern Mushroom | Glenwood MN
- What are Resilient Lawn next steps?
- Goals: to have folks adopt new lawn care strategies, to reach (X% ) of folks with educational materials
- Having folks sign a pledge psychologically increases the chances of folks taking action.
- Book recommendation from Crystal: Bringing Nature Home
- Public lands are not a privacy concern, Monarch Waystation Pioneer show as a way to motivate people
- Sell folks on the various levels of improvements, not just the top ones, could probably sell the park board on demonstration areas
- Let’s have a Resilient Lawns sub-committee meeting!
- Newsletter!
- Syd’s draft looks good, Jeff will take that and design it not in Canva, hooray!
- We will also have a newsletter sub-committee meeting to dive into these thoughts.
- Next Meeting
- Newsletter: Feb 10th 10:30AM
- Resilient Lawns: Feb 17th 10:30AM
- WCMNCN: March 2nd 10:30AM