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Shawn Waggener left a comment for anne patterson
"Hello Anne, Good to hear from you again! Veggie produce would be just fine! Really, whatever people would like to do is fine with me. There is plenty of room to grow as many vegetables that as many people as possible could ever dream of (77…"
Jul 18, 2010
anne patterson left a comment for Shawn Waggener
"Hi Shawn. Our members would probably be most interested in small scale gardening produce, however, the other projects seem cool and I'm sure someone would want to get involved. My student group is attempting to offer internships to interested…"
Jul 18, 2010
anne patterson left a comment for David Parsons
"Hi David. Alex is indeed the one! I've been very busy of late, but I'll get in contact with you eventually. Or, one of my sprouts (student garden) members will."
Jul 18, 2010
Shawn Waggener left a comment for anne patterson
"Hi Anne, Thanks for getting back to me! My property is about 6 miles northwest of the downtown square. It's on N. Maple Grove Rd., not too far from North High School. What sorts of projects are your peeps interested in? My focus as of late has…"
Jul 13, 2010
David Parsons left a comment for anne patterson
"Hi Anne, Is your friend Alex? He has been great and I should see him tomorrow when we meet with the interns again. May Creek has decided to explore partnering with like minded people or groups who would be interested in utilizing some of the…"
Jul 11, 2010
anne patterson left a comment for Shawn Waggener
"Hi Shawn, great to hear that you'd be open to us working your land. Where is your property located?"
Jul 11, 2010
anne patterson and Shawn Waggener are now friends
Jul 11, 2010
anne patterson left a comment for David Parsons
"ps, I'm assuming that you're the one to contact seeing as your name is listed on FIC contact page for may creek! excuse me if I got this wrong."
Jul 8, 2010
anne patterson left a comment for David Parsons
"Hi David. A friend of mine is working with may creek farm on the community center project I believe, and he mentioned to me that may creek has a good amount of open land looking to be staffed and farmed. Is this true? If so, I could set up a…"
Jul 8, 2010
Elizabeth Venstra left a comment for anne patterson
"At the public information meeting on May 6, INDOT passed out a sheet with their traffic count numbers for 2010. They were rounded off to the nearest thousand--unlike the numbers for previous years--and as far as I know, INDOT has not yet posted…"
Jul 2, 2010
anne patterson left a comment for Elizabeth Venstra
"Hi Elizabeth, I was wondering if you know anything about the current state of the bypass project. I wasn't able to make the last city hall meeting about it, but I heard that the traffic data came out higher than expected and INDOT is going to…"
Jul 1, 2010
anne patterson commented on Mylo Roze's blog post OMgarten growing/Thanks to donors & volunteers/Urban community raingarden on B-Line for hunger relief
"In case you think this would be good for your organization, I found this website for the American Community Gardening Association where you can register your community garden in the database. Might be good for publicity?…"
Jul 1, 2010
anne patterson commented on Kay S. Bull's event Be A Minimum "Road Time" Driver
"can't make it- keep me posted tho!"
May 12, 2010
anne patterson and Kay S. Bull are now friends
May 10, 2010
Elizabeth Venstra and anne patterson are now friends
May 8, 2010

Profile Information

How are you currently involved in Transition to a post-petroleum lifestlyle?
Currently a part of SPROUTS student garden- facilitating opportunities for students to learn to grow food the Permaculture way.
How do you identify with the Transition movement? Why are you interested?
I believe that our society will undergo a fundamental change with the exhaustion of the oil supply, and I am motivated to help bloomington and other communities ease into these changes in the most environmentally friendly and sustainable way. I feel the change in my heart :) I love this planet and all that lives here. And I prefer that it stays alive and flourishes. etc. etc.
How can you help the growth / acceptance / vitality of local Transition efforts? What can YOU teach us? What can your Group teach us?
I have tons of ideas. I wish I had 100 of me to do everything I have in mind. Just ask me. I feel that I'm helping by enabling other students to practice Permaculture with SPROUTS.
Can you give 2-5 hours a month in Bloomington to manifest real projects and will you show up?
I work for the student garden +5 hrs/month.
Your Favorite Books/Websites/Blogs/RSS Feeds for Information about Transition / Peak Oil, etc.
fooddemocracynow.org
grist.org
democracynow.org

books:
the barbaric heart
why your world is about to get a whole lot smaller
eaarth
Your Personal Website / blog / Facebook page (if you have one)
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=6841772#!/profile.php?id=1148820216

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At 5:47pm on July 18, 2010, Shawn Waggener said…
Hello Anne,

Good to hear from you again! Veggie produce would be just fine! Really, whatever people would like to do is fine with me. There is plenty of room to grow as many vegetables that as many people as possible could ever dream of (77 acres).

I'm on city water, so I'd like to devise ponds and swales for irrigation, rather than spraying chlorine and flouride and who know what else on food. Your crew would be welcome to use it, but hopefully that could be minimized as much as possible for the health of the plants and the water bill. I'm imagining you like to use sheet mulching, et al?

I hope you've been staying cool.

Shawn
At 8:33pm on July 13, 2010, Shawn Waggener said…
Hi Anne,

Thanks for getting back to me! My property is about 6 miles northwest of the downtown square. It's on N. Maple Grove Rd., not too far from North High School. What sorts of projects are your peeps interested in? My focus as of late has been long-term planning & planting for perennials for edible food forests/forest gardens/agroforestry/fruit tree guilds. Other than that, ponds/swales/rain systems/natural irrigation seem pretty important right now.
At 1:45pm on July 11, 2010, David Parsons said…
Hi Anne, Is your friend Alex? He has been great and I should see him tomorrow when we meet with the interns again. May Creek has decided to explore partnering with like minded people or groups who would be interested in utilizing some of the resources that are available here. If you would like to explore this you can call me at 824-6875 or 322-3547. Perhaps we could arrange a visit.
Dave
At 10:17am on July 2, 2010, Elizabeth Venstra said…
At the public information meeting on May 6, INDOT passed out a sheet with their traffic count numbers for 2010. They were rounded off to the nearest thousand--unlike the numbers for previous years--and as far as I know, INDOT has not yet posted these new numbers to their website like the others. Also, they weren't strictly comparable, because the intervals that were measured were slightly different (there was one segment that was treated together in previous years and broken down in 2010 or vice versa; I can't remember which). I don't have the numbers with me at the moment, unfortunately. Most of them were higher than the last year we had, so they appear to reverse the downward trend. However, they definitely don't show the strong predictions of growth that were the premise of this project.

Yes, the project calls for significant widening--double left turn lanes at major intersections throughout the bypass.

I'll email you more details. Stay tuned.
At 5:57pm on April 25, 2010, David Parsons said…
Welcome Anne! I hope to get a chance to work on some projects together.
 
 
 

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