Meeting Notes: March 17th @ 10:30AM
Community Checkins
- @syd has been thinking about the 10 Principles of Disability Justice and the book Crip Kinship.
- Crystal is thinking about being busy with work! Lots of connection and learning and goodness!
- @briana_dokken is thinking about Math Nerd stuff!
- @cberthiaume is thinking a lot about trees because they were at the Spring Expo for the Tree Board.
- They are working on an updated “Trees You Should & Should Not Plant” list, they will share that once it’s done!
- Crystal shared the Moorhead forestry page: City of Moorhead : Forestry
One Pager Draft
all friends welcome to edit and suggest things on this document
- What is the purpose? What are we doing with this?
- Using it as an intro and welcome into the conversation for folks who ARE and ARE NOT YET interested in transitioning into/learning about resilient lawns
- Resilient Lawn & Tree Meeting - Welcoming community members to having a conversation about resilient lawns in our community.
- What questions do we want answered at this meeting?
- What experts do we want to come share?
- What community education should happen here? (dispel no mow may, share about tree pruning)
- More pictures in the one-pager!
- We should create a digital “one-pager extended” with more resources for folks who want to learn more
- funding opportunities
- grasses & plants
- Make sure to mention that you don’t have to replace your whole lawns! This is a gradient
Local Resilient Lawn List - Keep adding to this list!!
Other Notes & Chats:
- Cameron - Research on City Center Mall & Highland Dr.
- City Center Mall Native Plantings was a project with the MN Design Team
- 18 Highland Drive rain garden put in by SWCD. From Matt Solemsass: “We installed the rain garden on Highland Dr. I actually used to live right across the street from it and have a raingarden in the yard there as well. The city staff would never do any maintenance on it so the neighborhood would do any maintenance that was needed. We have probably built 60 or more rain gardens in the city and surrounding county in the last 10 years. We offer cost-share to homeowners for doing these and generally do anywhere from 2-6 a season. We already have a well established program in place.”
- WCMNCN at booth things and farmers market things!