Course talk:LFS350/Projects/2014W1/T15/Proposal

Final Report is due next Wednesday -By Monday evening complete reflections and assigned final report section. Post to Final Report on google doc.

For Reflection statement

Critically and thoughtfully reflect on your CBEL project, group work and flexible learning experiences. (Flexible learning includes e-lectures, the time that was allocated to work with your community partners instead of plenary and homeroom meetings, and use of UBC wiki to report your project progress and final report). This may include talking about what you learned during your CBEL and flexible learning experiences and that how these have impacted your learning experience personally. You may discuss how the flexible learning approach of the course did or did not make your learning experience more meaningful. This may require you to consider why and how some aspects of your learning (e.g., community research, UBC wiki, community visit, presentations, and etc.) were valuable, enjoyable, educative, or frustrating. Complete and attach a reflection section as an Appendix, which should include your team members’ reflection statements (one statement from each member, and each statement between 200 to 250 words).

-Group meeting on Tuesday November 2nd at the usual spot

Hi guys, I noticed there are some parts that have not been added to the report yet. Would you please finish your parts by tonight that we can all review the different sections and edit them tonight and tomorrow morning? I know everyone is busy but we have planned this from the last week and I don't want to leave everything for the last minute again! We have a meeting tomorrow morning at 11:00 AM. See you guys

Dates and deadline to follow from our last group meeting on Wednesday November 19th

Email pictures to group 14 and 15 by Thursday November 20th -Share pictures taken at the kitchen event with our group and group 14 Power point deadline by Friday November 21st -Add images and points to power point created on google drive Meeting for presentation Monday 12pm November 24th -Run through of presentation Meeting on Wednesday at 5pm -Run through final report Bring back evaluation hand-out form to next class November 26th

We had the information event last night and all last week we were working on promoting the event via Facebook, emailing and phoning organizations and also telling our friends to come to the event. We basically had a meeting to figure out what we have to do in order to have a successful event with the GNH.

Hey guys,

good job yesterday! Now we should move on to our presentation and final report. Let's discuss about these and divide up the work today.

Yolanda

HI Esther, Thanks for sending this along. First, I like the Urban inFARMation Fair title--let's roll with that. You'll be able to access the kitchen anytime after 4 pm, which, i hope, makes things a little easier. I like the menu, and might want to add some whole wheat rolls, perhaps, to serve with the soup (It's important to offer protein!)

The things you'll likely be able to use from the farms in quantity are fresh herbs (pretty much anything you can think of) Kale and Arugula, and you ought to be able to harvest some mixed greens as well--however, Susanna indicates that it is essential that you have a backup plan for the produce, as frost will destroy it, and we've reached the time of year when that becomes a distinct possibility.

On the demo tables, it would be pretty ridiculous of us to not demonstrate salad from start to finish, and I'm kind of thinking that the "salad dressing" and the "salad" tables will be the same table; neither of those things is delicious without the other. The soup will need to be made ahead of time (and we do have equipment for keeping it hot.), and the kale chips can be produced throughout the evening, but we'll need to start with a bunch. (or we can make them all ahead of time, I'm fine with that too.) We'll need recipes for all of the things, maybe 1/4 of a a4 sheet, one recipe per.

The contact list looks good, for a start. I'll get in touch with the folks I've indicated. I really feel that each of you should have a stack of the handouts to distribute--in-person asks are the most effective way of getting people to come.

As far as the poster draft you sent me goes, our Graphic Designer is taking a look at it, I'm hoping to have an approved copy to send to you on Monday. I do appreciate Shelby's efforts here, but it doesn't make sense to pay our designer all this money specifically to do this sort of thing, and then not ask him to do it when I need this sort of thing done. I hope that sentance parses.

I'd suggest inFARMationFair@gmail as the handle because a) we might want to use gnhevents for something else, and b)it connects more solidly with the event, and is therefore easier to remember. I dislike like the passport idea, as it discourages somebody who wants more from going back for it and it condemns trees to an untimely fate.

I love a door prize, but seeds won't work, as we are going to be giving them away at the event. I do have an idea, however: Our Lead Farmer, Susanna, has agreed to provide a 1-hour garden planning consultation for the winner. That sort of mentoring really pulls everything together in my mind--though if that seems like a bad idea, then we can figure something else out.

Thanks again! Talk to you soon, Andrew

Group 14 & 15 Meeting - November 5th, 2014

• Event Title: A Garden Affair or Urban InFARMation Event

• Promotions o Shelby – will working on the poster tonight and Esther to send it to Andrew by tomorrow afternoon o Kalin, Cassandra, Kirianna – will send out emails to organizations over the weekend

• Budget o Matt: to put a budget together and send it over to Eduardo (reimbursement model)

• Cooking Demos o Kalin and Christine – Baking? o Matt o Ensure that recipes are printed out to hand out to community members

• Surveys o Will have a table with a sign up list, so community members are able to note down their email list (place a computer there); participants will also have another opportunity to win a prize if they write down their email address after they complete the survey o On the survey, we can note down a question asking participants on if they want to receive more information about the toolkits

• Information Table/Door Prizes o A write-up of who we are and why we’re here on a poster board o Shelby - A passport for participants to visit each table and get it stamped; if they complete it, they can insert their card into a box at the information table for a chance to win a prize

• Suggestions from Eduardo o Theatre as a research tool and getting people to interact with one another; would be able to identify interested folks and who we should connect with; challenge: timing of the event o Taking observations and taking down notes of what’s happening o Jeopardy game?

Hey Team! Make sure that you are signed up with the group on connect. Version 1 of the team charter is now posted on connect as we were supposed to do that already. Let's keep writing our progress reports here, as required. Today in the break out room we are editing the proposal further.

NOTE TO EVERYONE. If you are having difficulty citing your reference, feel free to email me the link and I can help you with that

Hey team, We Talked about the proposal and each person edited a part of the proposal I, Morvarid, edited the success factors and added some more information from the readings and other sources. I also added some background information about food security. We work on the proposal section by section each wednesday so all the group members are on the same page.

Michael (Han, Zijian) edited the project background of the Proposal.

Hi everyone,

This week I completed the following tasks: - Took a look through the team charter and made a few suggestions to the sections (i.e. background) - Communicated with Kirianna about event outreach with group 14 (took a look at the poster) - Drafted up a short write-up to be used on various social media outlets, emails, etc. (UBC Students from the Land and Food Systems 350 Course has partnered with Gordon Neighbourhood House to organize a “Healthy Homemade Potluck” event for Tuesday, November 18th starting at 7:00-8:00 PM. A fresh salad bar will be featured along with a selection of delicious dishes brought to you by your neighbours and fellow community members. This space will also be offered for dialogue around healthy eating, food security, and recipes on various dishes. Door prizes from Gordon Neighbourhood House’s very own herb garden will also be offered. The event is FREE, so all you have to bring is a dish to share and its recipe, your own plate and cutlery, yourself, and a friend or two! Please check out our Facebook page at “GNH Potluck Event” to stay up to date for more information or to get in contact with us. Thank you for tuning in and we look forward to meeting you!)

Mory made a great suggestion to complete our charter proposal before this Friday, if possible. What do you think?

Hey guys, I'll work on the purpose and research question portion of our charter proposal.

Hi Team! I edited the deliverables on project charter and I left some comments. Please take a look and let me know if you have further comments.

Hey teammates,

I worked and edited on the Purpose and Research Question along with Cassandra and Yolanda. I also contribute some information about how community engagement increases food security for the Background Information.

Hey team, I changed the whole success factors for the proposal and also re-read the whole proposal and edited some points. Mory

Hey Team!

We can also chat and work from here.

hey guys,

I put some stuff we were talking about up in the proposal (under stakeholder summary and methods). if everyone has time, would love it if you guys could all work on a section, even if its tentative, at least we will have something (just make sure you dont delete any instructions on the section in case we have to change it later. -Kirianna

Hey team, I changed the whole success factors for the proposal and also re-read the whole proposal and edited some points. Mory

Monday, November 3rd, 2014

LFS 350 – Meeting with Andrew at Gordon Neighbourhood House

 Initial goal was for the herb garden group to collaborate with the meal-sharing group

 Clarification and details of projects

o Herb Garden Toolkit

 Will be setting up an informational table to promote the toolkit to

o Meal-sharing event/Potluck (encouraged to not focus on this any longer)

 Was initially intended to encourage people to hang around after learning

community members

 Challenges: it’s around dinner time and when folks end work, community

about the toolkit, to engage with their neighbours, and an incentive for

participants to stay and mingle over food

members may already be hungry, may be hard to prepare a meal in such

a short period of time

o Online Survey from both groups (will still be able to do this and will be

promoted at one of the tables at the event)

 Andrew expressed interest in this

 Success factor: Lucy mentioned to Esther that even 5 responses from

 Challenge: the results of the survey will probably not be broad enough for

community would be helpful

GNH to use in their strategic plan, but the data will still be extremely

valuable and used for reflection purposes at the neighbourhood house

 Food Demonstration Event (the event that we will now be focusing on and

promoting)

o Where: room downstairs at GNH

o Objective/purpose

 To show community members how to prepare different and easy dishes

 A great way to transfer knowledge and provide resources to community

that incorporates various vegetables from the garden (kale, dark leafy

greens, brussel sprouts, winter squash, etc.)

members, including the available toolkits

o Activities

 Snacks to share

 1 table for the Urban Farm Toolkit

 1 table for the Herb Garden Toolkit

 1 table for Neighbourhood Small Grants

 1 table for the online survey

 2 tables for 2-3 food demonstration stations

 Both groups to clarify their individuals questions and consolidate

them together afterwards

 Recommended to have demos for homemade salad dressing,

salad, and roasted root veg dish – try to include/highlight

ingredients from both urban farm and herb garden

o Materials

 All utensils and food demonstration equipment will be provided by GNH

 Will have to wash dishes later (don’t want to use disposable stuff to

reduce waste)

o Resources/Assets: Matt teaches classes at the Dirty Apron, Esther works with

Sprouts at UBC, Andrew is a Red Seal chef, etc.

o Target audience (within the West End Community): folks who are interested in

developing community gardens (elderly folks, youth, ethnic community

members, families, gardeners or others who are interested in promoting safe

and comfortable communities)

o Allies to contact to promote the event

 Community members who manage community gardens/community

garden associations

(http://vancouver.ca/people-programs/community-gardens.aspx)

 Village Vancouver (major outreach across the city)

 Friends for Life Society, etc. (all organizations listed on GNH’s Food

 LGBTQ-related organizations

 Seniors: West End Seniors Network, Gathering Place Community Centre

 Youth: GAB Youth, King George Secondary (Community Service Team)

 Ethnic communities: Russian Community who volunteers at the Thrift

Resource guide)

Store

o Promotions (to be taken on by Promotions Team, Kirianna, Kalin, Shelby &

Cassandra, but to also be promoted by everyone to their personal networks!)

 Shelby from group 14 drafted up an awesome poster previously for the

potluck; will be using the same one after making necessary changes to it

and it will be turned into an invitation (smaller version of the poster)

 It will include the following details: the seed library, food demonstration

stations, toolkits; date, time, contact information with a temporary Gmail

account for general inquires from the public, Facebook event

 Should set up a Facebook event before the poster gets sent out

 Set up EventBrite event (will give us a preliminary idea of how many

people are coming)

 ** Every group member MUST bring at least one friend to the event!**

Requested by Andrew 

 Action Items/Due dates

o WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 5TH

o THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 6TH

o FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 7TH

o FRIDAY, SATURDAY, SUNDAY

o WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 12th

 Draft up a contact list on Excel of all the organizations/individuals we are

hoping to connect with; will send to Andrew and he will reply back to us

in regard to which folks he will directly contact

 Confirm the event name (ensure that it is “garden or farm-related”;

 Andrew will notify us in regard to the garden inventory on what produce

they currently have (and in season) and what we would need to purchase

 Andrew will connect with Will to clarify if there is funding for the project

to purchase snacks

 Start compiling a master list of all the things to do before and during the

event + delegating roles  must show Andrew this.

 Andrew will be meeting with the management team and they will provide

feedback in regard to the event and poster; we’ll receive feedback

immediately after and make any necessary changes

 Will communicate with us re: contact list + the people he wants to reach

out to himself and the people we are allowed to contact

 Create Facebook event (“private setting” for now)

 All event details to be APPROVED and FINALIZED

 Promotion, promotion, promotion!

 Menu/descriptions of food demonstration stations drafted up

 CBEL HOURS

o Andrew is looking for volunteers for more long-term commitments, but they

o Most effective to email Jim, the Volunteer Coordinator, for more information

may need volunteers for community lunches

and other opportunities (jim@gordonhouse.org)

Poster is complete and awaiting Andrew's approval before we post it to Facebook, twitter etc. Once approval is given Ester will let us know via email. Writeup was sent out via email today, again waiting for Andrew's approval on that. Once approval is given, spread the word using this informative writeup.