Rick - Bees Without Borders?! You certainly started my day with a chuckle!
I love it! You are just a fountain of good ideas and energy! I think the
whole idea is great and I like the place in McFarland. If you want to
pursue someone from Seed Savers, there is a guy who gardens next to me who
works at seed savers and he just loves to talk and share his knowledge of
growing and saving seeds. His name is Brian. If you do an afternoon and
evening thing does that mean that the folks who can't come till after 5 will
just miss out on what went on in the afternoon and visa-versa or do you mean
it would be a repeat from afternoon to evening? Do you know anyone around
Madison who keeps bees? Would it bee helpful to get any information or
contacts from Heifer Project about their Bee involvement? Thanks for doing
all this work! Jan

-----Original Message-----
From: Brooks, Richard [mailto:rbrooks@...]
Sent: Thursday, August 12, 2004 6:33 PM
To: communityfoodandgardennetwork@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [communityfoodandgardennetwork] Fall conference?


I'd like to propose a workshop along the lines of last fall's "Power of
Plants" and the spring's "Changing the World One Garden at a Time." But
this time we might consider some changes.

I believe I can get two women from Mexicali, Mexico (right across the
border, not far from Tijuana) to come and talk about The Bee Project, where
they have 60 or 80 poor women who tend bee hives, garden and make products
for sale to support their families. They lead workshops on how to build bee
hives (good for team building) and all about bees. We could invite local
bee keepers, youth and adult environmental ed/gardening folks for some real
"hands-on" work that results in tangible items they can take home. We could
also establish partnering relationships across borders; exchanges of people
and products (maybe even plants!) and ideas. Maybe we could also do
something (crafts, cooking, pies...!) with apples.

Possible titles for the day or break out sessions (with my apologies. Feel
free to come up with something better):
Let's just subtitle it the Community Food and Gardening Network Fall
Conference.

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What We Can Learn from Bees: Hard Work, Team Work, Good Work and
Earth Work
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Be Like Bees: Cross Pollinate! (The theme would be about sharing
ideas among schools, communities, continuing care programs and homes)
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Bees Without Borders
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Sharing Seeds of the Good Life (this leads me to think of a broader
theme--heritage seeds, heirloom veggies, genetics, cross-fertilization, etc.
Could we get someone from Seed Savers to give a workshop?)

Maybe we could also invite Priscilla Logan from Santa Fe to speak. You may
have seen her video. Very creative! But let's also focus on sharing
successes and lessons from all our local programs, too. Any other ideas?
Topics for roundtables or workshops?

Location: Oak Song School in McFarland--Older building (1920); nice
location surrounded by gardens. Has a kitchen and parking; is based in the
community and has a nurturing (Waldorf/Steiner--biodynamic) approach.
Accessible. By having the workshop here we help build the school's image as
a center for gardening, growing, etc. Our member Mark Voss is on the board.


Time: Start after lunch (say 12:30), break in mid-afternoon again. Have a
potluck and early evening session. Like last year, this allows us to have
two sections--one during working hours and one later, so people who teach or
can't get off work can come.

Date: Thursday, Nov. 11. It's after the Celebrating Youth! event. We
can also save some money and share costs for the speakers by also having
them present in the Milwaukee/Racine/Kenosha area either the day before or
day after.

What do you think?

Rick
Richard S. Brooks, Director, Health Promotion Project
Department of Professional Development and Applied Studies
Division of Continuing Studies, UW-Madison
520 Lowell Center, 610 Langdon Street
Madison, WI 53703
608-265-4077




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