Minutes taken by Gabrielle Hamilton

Attendance: Sean “Jonesy” Jones, Jesse Honiker (female), James Hibbs, Caitlin Fate, David Yeazel, Caleb Hedrick, Morgan Pfiffner, Mat Ladegaard, Ben Panish, Jess Tevik, Zoe Nieman, Gabrielle Hamilton

Agenda

3:15 – 3:30 Check-ins/Announcements & A Note about Notetaking

3:30 – 4:00 Previously Outlined Goals: Recap and Re-Commit

Survey is underway & will be completed next week.

Fermentation Workshops with Natalie Hammerquist (Gabrielle is organizing).

Nutrition lectures – Gabrielle will contact Ava Waits, and Morgan can help Gab.

Film Showings – Cinema Politika complications with subscription (sharing with SDS would probably not work). **Ben will spearhead this.

Cookbook/Zine – Jess and Matt are interested in publishing a quarterly CFC zine with recipes, resources, and information.

Website & Resource Library – Community calendar of food-related events accessible on our website. Changing from evergreen blog to blogger, making each of us an author on the blog. **Jesse Honiker will check what food related magazines are already available in the library so that when we decide which subscriptions to sign up for, we know what’s already there. **James Hibbs will organize the new blogger site for CFC.

Food Not Bombs workshops – Zoe will talk with Austin Nolen.

Synergy Conference in Spring – We would like to co-sponsor it! **Caitlin will contact Dani Madrone to ask how we can help.

**Jonesy will email a general template to use for each budget item

Announcements:

James – Accidentally attended a GSU meeting where he learned that they are needing to form a Request For Proposals Committee to oversee the negotiations governing the decisions behind Evergreen’s Aramark contract expiring in Spring 2013.

4:00 – 4:30 Mission Statement Re-Vamping

The progress we made today:

“The Campus Food Coalition [exists to provide] a forum for the Evergreen community to discuss and raise awareness of food issues on campus. We strive to accurately reflect community ethics and sustainability goals via our campus food system.”

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)

Notes of and on The Evergreen Food Coalition (EFC), November 30th 2011.
Taken By David Yeazel.
We started preliminary chatter by passing around a folder of information from the Food Justice Conference in Oakland.
Zoe Called the meeting into order.
James Hibbs
Zoe Neiman
Jessica Honiker
Michael Sean-Jones
Austin Nolan- Visitor from FNB [Food Not Bombs, an Olympia community organization]
Kaitlin Fate
Jess Tevik
Morgan Piffner
David Yeazel

Zoe-Any announcements? I do.  We have a potluck, it is on Sunday the 4th, however, Slow Foods has their meeting at that time, and maybe we will combine our meeting potluck with them.  This seems likely, and Eco-Ag’ers*  will be there and could be very beneficial for all of us.  We could wait after to work with the cookbook and other issues specific to the EFC.
Zoe brought coconut balls to the table.
Austin-  FNB has not come up with dates yet but if we come up with dates it would be beneficial.
Cooking on the campus is one of the idea’s, in the Longhouse kitchen.  Framed as a workshop that would be working with FNB’s and as a workshop about how to create food resources and food soundness, creation, and how the FNB’s works.  FNB will talk with some higher ups about how to have a more solid idea about this.
Zoe-We will be meeting next week for sure.
Zoe- Should we talk about our mission and vision for next quarter?
So what we should do-Michael mentions we should have a survey
James notes that while we have talked about the survey, we haven’t implemented it.
Jessica has said a bit about how we haven’t really set a date in the past, and now we can set that.
Zoe-Budget can be set during the next week if you have the time.  That would be very reasonable, says a few others.  Next week isn’t a bad week is murmured all around.
Zoe- It would help to devote a week meeting to what we have accomplished and what, in the future, we want to accomplish.  We have a pretty good base group of members, so we can have a more established goal set.  More focus.  We just finished a SLAR and handed it in.
The cookbook was universally agreed upon as a good goal.
Zoe- So can we devote the next meeting to deciding on what we will accomplish?
Jess-We should establish timelines specific to goals and people in roles.
Kaitlin- Personally responsible to what you find important.
Zoe-What I want to devote next meeting to is solidifying our mission and an action plan and talk about the group structure.  What projects to take on and something that might help would be working with the Eco-Ag class* next quarter on the Real Food Challenge.
Zoe-As to the Real Food Challenge, the Calculator assessment is important to have done annually and establish the working group and instituting an action plan.  It should be somewhat student driven and we are representing those interests.  Something helpful that the RFC has put out is a paper with ideas as to how the groups can be responsible to committing to the RFC.   It is called the Best Practices for Campus Food Systems.
Caitlyn- This could be a great way of doing things to get survey information.
Zoe-The real food challenge that Aramark signed up for was signed up for by the current farm manager of the organic farm and was previously the sustainability coordinator for Aramark.
James-We have a new blog blogs.evergreen.edu/campusfoodcoalition
James and Caitlyn have joined the media team.
We then debated what to call Zoe’s Vegan Almond Gluten-free Fire balls.
The Survey time to meet is on Monday but sometime to get lunch, 2-4 pm, in the chairs between here and the eggplant.
The Budgeting committee wants to meet after next meeting.  This will also help with deciding what we would want to do.
The Slow Raptors is a good name for something.[Possibly a band]

Closing statements?
Zoe- I really really appreciate you guys.

Things made for food
Butternut squash sage scones.
Two soups-Lebanese vegetable soup with red lentils, and a soup of the Mollie Katzen Moosewood Cookbook,with Coriander, Garbanzo.
Pie-Glutenfree Walnut crust Apple Pear cranberry.
Purple Kale Salad, with dumpster-ed pine nuts [dumpster diving prize in their packagin], w/sheep feta.
Minnesota style Jello w/fruits and marshmallow, layer of sour cream, and jello.
Cream of Mushroom Soup.[with stock made mostly of dark beer]
Apple Crisp.
Green bean and beet saladicious, roasted apples pears and ginger.
A birthday pie, orange curd with graham cracker crust and the cranberries of awesomeness.[cranberry sauce as a thin layer on top of the orange curd, sometimes squirted onto the orange curd in a lattice]

*Students in “Ecological Agriculture: Developing a Local, Sustainable Food System” Course description is here –>www.evergreen.edu/catalog/2011-12/programs/ecologicalagriculturedevelopingalocalsustainablefoodsystem-7994