SF April Meeting Notes

Our April meeting brought gardeners and food lovers together to help each other. Olin Anderson spoke about native plants that work well in our climate. Tarka Sanchez spoke about the power of community gardening. And Jen Dalton shared 10 ways to support a sustainable urban food system. Read Jen’s excellent tips here:

10 Ways to Support a Sustainable Food System 

Below are member announcements from the April meeting. Please lend a hand to those that ask for help. And be open to receiving help from those offering.  Also included is a list of food and gardening resources created by meeting participants.

Our next meeting Thursday, May 21 features Eric Poettschacher of Shapeshifters.net. He’ll share his two year journey linking creatives from across the globe. This is a chance for SF artists of all stripes jack into a global network of creatives and patrons. Learn more about the meeting here:

Lessons from the Global Creative Community

MEMBER MEETING ANNOUNCEMENTS
Name: Artemis
Passion: recycling, honoring the earth, shamanic & wiccan practices,klowning
Needs:help with making beds and growing food/herbs in my backyard
Gifts: hands that like to dig in the earth, holding space when folks need to go to deep/dark/soulful places

Name: Jen Dalton
Passion: Compost, food systems and great food
Needs: a car. (budget: $3k. used car great for driving around the Bay Area and beyond: Honda, Audi, Subaru … dependable 1990s car) Clients (restaurants, businessess, with a passion for transforming their food systems)
Gifts: Connections in the sustainable food systems world, farm-to-table chefs, a host of food writers, PR agents, etc., food non-profits
Website: gastronautsf.com

Name: Susan Meyer
Passion:organic gardening, naturopathic physician and acupuncturist, teaching kids gardening, growing food for restaurants, zydeco dance, artisan chocolate
Needs: community, collaboration, fun

Gifts: resourceful, insightful, helpful, and a good listener. 25 years of natural medical practice
Name: James Hanusa
Passion: Social Media, Innovation, Culture Change, Change SF, Esperanza Sustainability Center
Needs: People for projects, Project Funding
Gifts: Networking – Govt, Non-proits, business – coalition building

Name: Mary Fuller
Passion:Arts, food, people, urban planning & sustainability issues
Needs: clients for my non-profit consulting practice
Gifts: Come to my house and have dinner!
Website: www.soupstone.org

Name: Neal Gorenflo
Passion: helping people help themselves
Needs: patience, speakers and event ideas for Abundance League
Gifts: project management, ideas, book recommendations, social network strategy

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FOOD & GARDENING RESOURCES

Localharvest.org (find family farms, CSAs, and farmers markets near you)
Introduction to Permaculture
MyFarmSF.com (an decentralized urban farm using your backyard!)
Civileats.org (blog about sustainable agriculture and food systems)
Alemanyfarm.org (sustainable urban farm in SF)
Seafoodwatch.org (make smart seafood choices, app now available on iPhone)
CCOF.org (leading organic certifier, lots of consumer info including the organic directory)