Meeting Minutes

We are increasing our food production, preserving techniques and storage infrastructure Key points: increased production and seed saving Cows mob grazing is essential to grassland health Reports Vedic Eco Village needs more farm workers, housing for workers via cubes (movable 10x10x10 cubes) and…

Key points We need a community food security, eco-tourism, forestry and wild fire protection plan! We need to capture water (ie. ponds, swales) before it leaves valley Need an engineer stamp for our buildings, more important than a building permit Mob grazing is essential to grassland health We…

AGM Minutes Food security we need to grow much more than last year need more potatoes seeds and help to remove colorado beetle harvested twice as much beans as planted... this can improve greatly with more weeding need a planter/seeder for grains... something ox can pull... bhumi farm walking…

Hot Topics Community Garden Management Brihat will organize beds, drip line management, weeding Brihat will manage 18 market rows no farm gate sales rather a guided u-pick Need to build an area with a roof for storage sign with rules, tools, finish your beds cover crop for unused areas of garden (…

Hot Topics new approach to increase farming in the valley Transform farm status either through residents 1) paying residential tax rate (e.g. $400 each) 2) farming ($500 gross revenue each) 3) associating yourself with farmer but not doing the farming yourself (need to invest with farmer to gain…

Community Garden update     •    Community garden: Francis is "retiring" and will keep 2 acres for fruit trees, herbs, bees, raspberries, strawberry, goji     •    Remaining 2 acres could be managed by cooperative - the soil has to be built up with cover crops and manure     •    Francis will leave…

Co-op tractor for plowing and post pounding usage plow needs reinforcement work for use in heavy sod, can be done over winter post pounder can be fixed over winter, need welding by Chaitanya Kripanidhi or Chaitanya can drive tractor Community garden Francis will use 2 acres for himself, and…

Meeting Agenda farming update co-op seed order valley fence update co-op tractor calendar and weekly schedule of impeiments (ie. post pounder, plow, rotovator) cow and goshala update co-op logo, sticker and marketing materials cooperative update, executive election and review of previous meeting…