June 2024 Meeting & Notes (Sat Jun 1 @ 10:30AM)

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Meeting: Saturday June 1st 2024 @ 10:30am

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Agenda:

  • Community Check In
  • Announcements
  • Farmers Market Presence Discussion
    • What is our purpose and intent at having a Farmer’s Market presence?
    • How often should we be there? What should be our activities or topics whilst there?
    • What are we hoping to come away with from the Farmer’s Market?
  • Sub-Committee Sharing
    • Morris Model Newsletter
    • Resilient Lawns
      • Focus on Local Resilient Lawn Map
        • Text pictures of local resilient lawns and their addresses to Syd
    • Food Systems
  • Determine Next Meetings

June WCMNCN Meeting
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Notes:

  • Community Check In
    • @syd is in her childhood bedroom hanging out with her parents new puppy, happy pride month!
    • @cberthiaume is feeling thankful but annoyed to be invited for an interview but having to give a presentation
    • @wenkaiguan is back in China to see his parents! He is feeling empowered to be back even though it was a challenging travel & process to get back
    • @Susan_Gilbert is going tree inventory-ing and realizing how long it takes! It is difficult, but fun!
    • @Nic_McPhee is chatting with new neighbors as they are tree surveying, the new friends helped survey the trees. He is doing a lot of gardening and buying so many plants!
    • Vern is a wee bit sad because he has lost some friends and another friend is in hospice. He is in between projects and kicking back for a bit.
  • Announcements
    • CERTs IRA Training
    • 17 Rooms - June 12th
    • One of the German Interns (Manuel) is interviewing people who have heat pumps! If you have a heat pump, or know someone who does, reach out to Manuel.
  • Farmers Market Presence Discussion
    • What is our purpose and intent at having a Farmer’s Market presence?
      • Continue our slow corruption of the community
      • To advertise the WCMNCN, let people know we exist
      • We want more people involved so that we have more hands (to take action), more minds (to share ideas), and more neighbors (to be friends with).
      • Putting human faces to the WCMNCN, legitimizes the WCMNCN
      • There is value simply in having a public presence of people who care about the environment and sustainability.
      • To have conversation
      • “If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go further, go together.”
      • It allows other people who might not be thinking about these topics, to start thinking about these topics. Exposure to people who are thinking about these topics, helps remind people that they DO care about these things and they WANT to take action.
    • What are some ways to start the conversation? What are some topics we can bring up? What are some action items?
      • Framing it about meeting people, learning about them, understanding what they care about.
      • We start conversations with questions, we want them to talk more than we do, questions on questions on questions.
      • Our mission statement is a good reminder and prompt to ourselves, : to promote individual and group action toward a resilient, equitable and sustainable community through modelling behavioural change, conversation and education.
      • We want to hear from more people in our community about how we can make a resilient community together.
      • A list of questions! A prompt inviting people to share who they are, a paper for doodling and writing answers on, a weekly question and conversation prompt,
      • Topic ideas: Organics Program, WCMNCN calendar (the web of stuff), resilient lawncare (lawns to legumes), food security projects, community garden, tree inventory and work, water quality, solar panels, we are a conduit to other peoples ideas, pomme de terre foods, newsletter
      • Having a notes page or a notebook in the bucket to take notes and write down ideas. Having a sign up sheet for people to get on the list. Name tags. Sunscreen!
      • Tables are boring, we need something there that draws people in.
    • How often should we be there? What should be our activities or topics whilst there?
      • Syd will put together the beginning logistics! She will send out an email post farmers market pre-season meeting.
    • What are we hoping to come away with from the Farmer’s Market?
      • New members!
      • Good conversations!
      • New projects/new ideas/new ways to think about things!
      • New connections to people & projects
      • Friendships
      • Learning people’s names
      • Affirmations to the WCMNCN and to our friends.
      • NO SUN BURNS
      • Action takers
  • Sub-Committee Sharing
    • Morris Model Newsletter
    • Resilient Lawns
      • Focus on Local Resilient Lawn Map
    • Food Systems
  • Determine Next Meetings
    • WCMNCN: Saturday July 6th @ 10:30AM online AND at 11 Elm St (Syd’s Yard!) with coffee, tea, and morning snacks.