July 2026 Meeting & Notes (11 July 2026 @ 10:30AM)

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July 2026 Meeting: Saturday 11th July 2026, 10:30am. This will be an ONLINE meeting, you can join online at bit.ly/climate-network.

With agenda items, upcoming events, or more email wcmncn@googlegroups.com

Agenda:

  • Community Check-ins

  • SYD TAKE A PICTURE!

  • Updates

    • Container Farm
      • Field trip today!
    • PDTF Garden

  • July discussion: other summer field trip ideas, farmer’s market plans

  • Upcoming

  • Next Meeting

    • August 1st

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Notes:

  • Community Check-ins

    • Syd (she/they) had a lovely week of spending time with people and having loving conversations.
    • Captain (they/them) is thinking a lot about creating art, drawing, the frustration that comes along with not having time or motivation to do it. They like to do the things they love, and sometimes its complicated.
    • Barbara schemes and makes plans that get complicated, so now there is an event that will happen. The Better Together Film Festival is happening across the country is about showing documentaries that have a discussion component. Its about bringing people together who may have differing opinions.
    • Hunter (he/him/they) been nose to the grind at work trying not to have a heat stroke in the field. The past few years they have been trying to get a publication written for some small mammal monitoring research they did in 2019. This has come back to them, so they have been working on it again recently.
    • Anna (she/her) her life has been a whirlwind recently, busy with work projects and visiting family. Sometimes it is hard to slow down, especially when you are already going fast. Its hard to be inside when she is always outside, its hard to be outside when she is always outside.
    • Tina (she/her) is thinking about the new garden she created this week. Preferably rabbit resistant and native pollinator plants, open to suggestions!
    • Garrett had a lot of time off lately and coming up because his company is in the transition of selling and needs to use up his PTO. He has been thinking about the weeds that are not native, but not super invasive and how he could leave them for pollinators. He has been into some woodworking projects! We should listen to Skunk Anansi.
    • Arden (she/they) don’t have a lot going on, but is excited about actually being in Morris this meeting. She is excited for the container visit this afternoon.
    • Susan has an art show opening at the PRCA, “Angst into Art”. It is climate related and cast metal, sculptural and 3D. Opens Wednesday July 15th. Nic’s mother passed recently and Susan gave a lovely description of who she was and how she loved to live.
    • Dan (he/him) has been trying to narrow down what he’s been thinking about, because even in one morning he can think about a lot of things. He swam 1000 yards straight and made us all giggle with his request for applause and desire to be called the “greatest swimmer in american history”. He did his first triathalon this spring! He was also thinking about how cool the people the Climate Network are! He is also enjoying the gardens outside of his house, and not taking credit for the good work Nancy and Cheryl did. He is also appreciating all the work he put in to replace the space where the trees went down.

  • Updates

    • Container Farm
      • Field trip today!
    • PDTF Garden

  • July discussion: other summer field trip ideas, farmer’s market plans

    • More prairie hike!
    • Barbara would like a bird walk in the fall (Sept/Oct)
    • Hunter & Anna would love to lead a bird hike August/September (or both)
    • Tentatively come August, Hunter will be jobless and so he would be more than willing to prairie bird walk wayyy more often

  • Upcoming

    • Susan’s Art Show starts on Wednesday, July 15th and ends September 5th. Likely an event will be in August!
    • The Better Together Film Festival - Wednesday, July 22nd at 7PM
    • Last Farmers Market in July is on Wednesday the 29th 3-6pm at Eastside Park instead of Thursday the 30th.
    • Friends of The Public Library is having their book sale the last week of July also.
    • Dan is the Stevens County Liason for Eric Osberg’s run for congress, they are having a door knocking on July 21st at 4:30 in the MPL for a quick training and then evening walk. Primarily to friendly folk. You can go to ericosberg4congress.com to learn about his policies and agendas.

  • Next Meeting

    • August 1st - next meeting