Meeting Notes: April 20th @ 10:30AM
Community Checkins
@Syd is planning for her MCAP award ceremony, is excited to trick all the business boys into having a party in her yard.
@cberthiaume is battling the dryer in their apartment building because it toasts the heck out of their clothes.
Cameron and Syd hopped on the Zoom this morning and had a good chat about what our next steps should be. We think that Resilient Lawn’s next steps involve inviting a group of wider experts to share with us some of their experience and knowledge before we step out into wider community education. We thought our idea was pretty good, so it’s what we planned for!
Here is the list of groups we brainstormed to invite to a meeting:
PDT Garden Club - Syd
Resilient Lawns List Folks - Syd
Morning Sky Greenery - Syd
Stevens County Master Gardeners - Cameron
City of Morris Tree Board - Cameron
Stevens County SWCD - Cameron
We are planning to have this Resilient Lawn & Tree Care Experts Meeting on Friday, May 24th at 10:30AM online at bit.ly/climate-network.
Cameron and Syd are each going to reach out to the groups and introduce them to this idea/this meeting. If we hear back with interest we will then invite them to the google calendar invite that you all have been invited to already.
Here are the details we typed up in the google calendar description that can help guide some of our introduction/invitation emails:
The West Central MN Climate Network (WCMNCN) is a group of neighbors putting people power and motivation behind supporting our community’s resiliency efforts. We would love to do that with YOU and your organization!
Recently, the WCMNCN has been hosting conversation, brainstorming, and planning to increase education and implementation of resilient lawn and tree care in the City of Morris.
We would love to expand our conversation with more local experts in order to effectively promote, implement, and educate the public about the importance & necessity of this work! We would like to hear from you before we do any of this community engagement or education.
So what are we asking from you? We would love it if you could join us at a zoom meeting (tentatively scheduled for Friday May 24th at 10:30AM) to share your expertise! We want to hear about past resilient lawn and tree care projects you have participated in, we want to promote the services and knowledge of our local organizations, and we want to hear your goals and ideas for resilient lawn and tree care in our community.
To read past notes on WCMNCN Resilient Lawns conversations: https://westcentralmnclimate.network/t/resilient-lawns-sub-committee-home-base/260
With questions or concerns, email Syd (syd.r.bauer@gmail.com) or Cameron (cameron.berthiaume@ci.morris.mn.us@gmail.com).
If you have other ideas of experts we should be inviting to this conversation, please let us know!
When we send our invitation emails, and if you send out any invitation emails, make sure to cc the Resilient Lawns Sub-Committee: mcphee@morris.umn.edu, midd1cry@gmail.com, dokke083@morris.umn.edu, syd.r.bauer@gmail.com, gjerness@gmail.com, cameron.berthiaume.ci.morris.mn.us@gmail.com
I will work more on the Resilient Lawns One-Pager before the Experts meeting, and you should get an email from Cameron about Tree ID training and volunteering to identify the trees in Morris.
These are our plans for Resilient Lawn work until the next WCMNCN meeting on May 4th at 10:30AM online at bit.ly/climate-network.
We would love to hear anyone’s thoughts and ideas about this! Shoutout to Cameron for being motivated, willing, and practical about next steps and how we can all put in work to make them happen! Thanks Cameron!