Week 10 CFC Meeting Minutes – 12/7/11

 

Slow Food Potluck

-Caitlin met a chef man who has been feeding Occupiers downtown and is very interested in working with culinary arts programs at Evergreen to provide locally sourced and otherwise politically engaged food for the college.

-Zoe met Joel Hansen who is part of a nutritional therapy program (called Nutritional Therapy Association? In Olympia/Tacoma?)

Also, Slow Food wants to have more active role in CFC

-Sean was encouraged by Anne from Left Foot Organics, because she talked about purchasing more land through land trust to dedicate to only farming. Sean wondering if we can encourage Evergreen to purchase some land to dedicate to progressive agriculture.

-Joe interjected about how the land that his house is on is looking to be bought with land trust for farming

 

Food Not Bombs

-Zoe and Austin met with Kandi and we can collaborate with FNB on campus as long as we do not advertise the fact that there will be food there. However we can subtly hint by using a picture of food and saying “hands-on” on the flyers.

-Austin says he doesn’t not yet know when it will happen (Winter Week 5 would be earliest possible) because obtaining food donations in Winter is difficult.

FNB is trying to expand right now (3 of us are freshmen who live in the dorms) to the Evergreen campus. Austin is trying to get more people in FNB into a more activist mentality, but it’s tough… and Austin is on his way out of organizing for FNB because he is getting busier.

-Zoe brings up that revamping the Food Bank on campus could be an effective way to both source food for FNB’s campus branch and get closer to food sovereignty at Evergreen.

 

Real Food Challenge and Calculator

-Zoe and Gabrielle met with Emma Brewster and checked in about the Real Food Calculator

-Caitlin says she has been tipped-off about other schools nearby going through the RFC

-Gabriel is trying to get a regularly-scheduled (maybe guerrilla-style) cooking demonstration class down by the organic farm

-Zoe has group of 3 or more people from Eco Ag to do calculator

 

Survey Committee

Met on Monday, there were 5 of us, and we were comparing RFC’s Best Practices for a Sustainable Food System guide.

Everyone agrees to look over survey and deliver feedback, personally or by email, to Caitlin.

 

Future of CFC

Joe- get people interested in harvesting food. Also: Aramark. Foraging.

Ben- working with RFC. Movies (work $750 Cinema Politica membership into budget proposal).

Gabrielle- sponsoring Synergy Conference in Spring! Can help choose movies and workshops.

Caitlin- make connections with SPSCC and set up field trip to their school to get a tour of their self-operated food system. Would also like to create a food policy.

Sean- education materials, even if it doesn’t have CFC name on it.

Jesse- Nutrition workshops! Either through Nutritional Therapy Association or CFC members (Gabrielle, Morgan, David).

Jessica- community engagement to get people interested in CFC.

Ben- food workshops for people without kitchens (like freshmen in dorms).

James- make friends with Mycelial Network (Mushroom Club). Also, fun fictional food movies (like Ratatouille or Like Water for Chocolate).

Zoe- Revamping the campus Food Bank, probably separate from Police Services (due to resistance). Establishing a campus Food Policy (by getting involved with RFC and forging connections across students, staff, faculty). Also connecting Evergreen to the greater Olympia community through local food issues (Slow Food, Sustainable South Sound). Building student engagement through fun events. Compiling a comprehensive base for useful information (nutrition, resources, etc.)

David- look into becoming a Slow Food chapter, and we can add it to our budget!

Attendance

James Hibbs

Morgan Pfiffner

Gabriel Stranahan

Jessie Honiker

Jessica Tevik

David Yeazel

[Michael] Sean Jones

Ben Parish

Joe Zeman

Zoe Nieman

Caitlin Fate

Gabrielle Hamilton

Austin Nolan (FNB representative)