Hello Friends,
Thank you for all who attend last Fridays meeting-I believe we have made progress and placing a strong foundation with direction in our committee meeting.
Whom We Serve – “Hungry in Hernando” - a future model of community outreach gardens feeding hungry people
Mission Statement:
“Hungry in Hernando” current name
A community network to better grow, educate, and feed all who want healthy, fresh locally grown food.
Leadership In Attendance
Gary Adams 941-809-0524
Kevin Adams 941-809-0503
Dori Bon 352-263-1998
Linda Borowski 352-610-9420
Kathy Conklin 352-428-0584
William Ford 352-238-9091
Angela Gilbert 352-346-9172
Karen Greenway 352-345-5049
Stanley Jekubrowski 352-593-5082
John Mayo 352-799-5992
Rob Robinson 352-585-2758
Achilles Thomas 352-650-6726
Rob Robinson 352-585-2758
Meeting Discussions
Initiative and main objective – creating community gardens while growing non-GMO local food for the hungry in community, and educating throughout Hernando County.
Strategic Objectives:
Provide multiple avenues of access to local community gardens, churches, outreach projects, throughout Hernando County and beyond. Growing nutrient packed local non-GMO vegetables and fruits to feed the hungry in our community.
Engage leadership roles farmers, gardeners, consultants seed collectors, administrative, educators, marketers, distributors, food handlers, gleaning, and canning segmented groups all food production in ways that ourselves and community about the complex relationship between food, health, and the environment.
Facilitate projects so they integrate into our communities, encourage community gardens throughout Hernando County, and serve as models for other communities.
Design all projects so that they serve as a welcome environ¬ment and open space for all who participate.
Initiation of first plan is satellite location throughout Hernando County-creating community garden in churches, outreach groups, commercial and private land. Networking though segment groups leaders and volunteers.
Creating and establishing location for fruit and vegetable gardens throughout Hernando County.
Growing satellite gardens, and outreach throughout the county. Growing fresh non GMO fruits and vegetables for the hungry, while consistently creating awareness, and education throughout each garden location.
Utilizing the existing Community Garden “Auro” located in Brooksville and all operation business, Brooksville Natural Foods Brooksville, Spring Hill, Chef Audrey’s Café, Monster Transmission and the Hunger Outreach, People Helping People Outreach, Green World Path Consulting, IFAS, Hernando County Rock Cannery, 501c3 groups for possible future grants
Venue Options
Depending on the total participants, we do have locations available for us to hold meetings. 100 or more
• Green World Path
• Fairgrounds (only $50 per use)
• Library(s)
• Vacant storefront in Brooksville located next to Brooksville Natural Foods
• Different locations across the County - for example, a non-profit organization may want us to hold a meeting at their location, this way we would gain insight about the various participants in the network.
Segment Focus Groups:
The group decided that we would need to break up into segments we will call “Focus Groups”, or teams. The next meeting August 8, 2011) we will break into smaller groups. Establishing teams, where each focus group team can define their goal and tasks Listed:
• Growing, consulting, seeds collectors, other growing necessities, what to grow, how to grow, education for various growing type or need, etc.
• Community Awareness and Education, marketing : growing food, i.e., churches, non-profits, schools, farm land, attend events to promote awareness, fund raising, what to eat and why, how to prepare food
• Administrative Legal, Accounting, and Insurance: evaluate structure (501c3 necessary?)
• Gleaning Group: collecting leftover crops from farmers' fields after produce harvested, or on fields where it is not economically profitable to harvest, obtains labor to harvest and determine distribution.
• Canning Group: Preserving harvested produce while utilizing the Rock Cannery.
Some suggestions for next committee meeting
• Assigning leadership positions and roles
• Creating list of all volunteers
• Quickly getting food to the hungry
• Five-year plan
Suggestion made during our meeting that we participate in these upcoming events to share what we are doing with the community, possibly have a booth, and hand out flyers of upcoming education opportunities and locations.
See attachments
Auto Show / Charity Event, October 29, 2011
Labor Day Picnic, September 5, 2011
Auro Community Garden October 29th Hay Rides
(See William Ford for more details on the last event)
I will have ready a sign up work sheet for each group August 8th meeting.
Name of Group
I did not get a clear answer in the name of the group. We can change Hunger in Hernando if anyone would like to suggest another name please do. Minority vote by raise of hands in the next workshop will have the last say on creating a name.
I will send another e-mail on the PowerPoint Moraga – I do not want to send to many attached files in fear that it will wind up in a spam filter.
Thank you all for you care and concern, for all who are desperate and hungry. It is important not to look at this endeavor as a club, but look at it as though someone you love is out there hungry and in need.
"The freedom of man, I contend, is the freedom to eat."
Eleanor Roosevelt
Hello Friends,
Thank you for all who attend last Fridays meeting-I believe we have made progress and placing a strong foundation with direction in our committee meeting.
Whom We Serve – “Hungry in Hernando” - a future model of community outreach gardens feeding hungry people
Mission Statement:
“Hungry in Hernando” current name
A community network to better grow, educate, and feed all who want healthy, fresh locally grown food.
Leadership In Attendance
Gary Adams 941-809-0524
Kevin Adams 941-809-0503
Dori Bon 352-263-1998
Linda Borowski 352-610-9420
Kathy Conklin 352-428-0584
William Ford 352-238-9091
Angela Gilbert 352-346-9172
Karen Greenway 352-345-5049
Stanley Jekubrowski 352-593-5082
John Mayo 352-799-5992
Rob Robinson 352-585-2758
Achilles Thomas 352-650-6726
Rob Robinson 352-585-2758
Meeting Discussions
Initiative and main objective – creating community gardens while growing non-GMO local food for the hungry in community, and educating throughout Hernando County.
Strategic Objectives:
Provide multiple avenues of access to local community gardens, churches, outreach projects, throughout Hernando County and beyond. Growing nutrient packed local non-GMO vegetables and fruits to feed the hungry in our community.
Engage leadership roles farmers, gardeners, consultants seed collectors, administrative, educators, marketers, distributors, food handlers, gleaning, and canning segmented groups all food production in ways that ourselves and community about the complex relationship between food, health, and the environment.
Facilitate projects so they integrate into our communities, encourage community gardens throughout Hernando County, and serve as models for other communities.
Design all projects so that they serve as a welcome environ¬ment and open space for all who participate.
Initiation of first plan is satellite location throughout Hernando County-creating community garden in churches, outreach groups, commercial and private land. Networking though segment groups leaders and volunteers.
Creating and establishing location for fruit and vegetable gardens throughout Hernando County.
Growing satellite gardens, and outreach throughout the county. Growing fresh, non “GMO” fruits and vegetables for the hungry, while consistently creating awareness, and education throughout each garden location.
Utilizing the existing Community Garden “Auro” located in Brooksville and all operation business, Brooksville Natural Foods Brooksville, Spring Hill, Chef Audrey’s Café, Monster Transmission and the Hunger Outreach, People Helping People Outreach, Green World Path Consulting, IFAS, Hernando County Rock Cannery, 501c3 groups for possible future grants
Venue Options
Depending on the total participants, we do have locations available for us to hold meetings. 100 or more
• Green World Path
• Fairgrounds (only $50 per use)
• Library(s)
• Vacant storefront in Brooksville located next to Brooksville Natural Foods
• Different locations across the County - for example, a non-profit organization may want us to hold a meeting at their location, this way we would gain insight about the various participants in the network.
Segment Focus Groups:
The group decided that we would need to break up into segments we will call “Focus Groups”, or teams. The next meeting August 8, 2011) we will break into smaller groups. Establishing teams, where each focus group team can define their goal and tasks Listed:
• Growing, consulting, seeds collectors, other growing necessities, what to grow, how to grow, education for various growing type or need, etc.
• Community Awareness and Education, marketing : growing food, i.e., churches, non-profits, schools, farm land, attend events to promote awareness, fund raising, what to eat and why, how to prepare food
• Administrative Legal, Accounting, and Insurance: evaluate structure (501c3 necessary?)
• Gleaning Group: collecting leftover crops from farmers' fields after produce harvested, or on fields where it is not economically profitable to harvest, obtains labor to harvest and determine distribution.
• Canning Group: Preserving harvested produce while utilizing the Rock Cannery.
Some suggestions for next committee meeting
• Assigning leadership positions and roles
• Creating list of all volunteers
• Quickly getting food to the hungry
• Five-year plan
Suggestion made during our meeting that we participate in these upcoming events to share what we are doing with the community, possibly have a booth, and hand out flyers of upcoming education opportunities and locations.
See attachments
Auto Show / Charity Event, October 29, 2011
Labor Day Picnic, September 5, 2011
Auro Community Garden October 29th Hay Rides
(See William Ford for more details on the last event)
I will have ready a sign up work sheet for each group August 8th meeting.
Name of Group
I did not get a clear answer in the name of the group. We can change Hunger in Hernando if anyone would like to suggest another name please do. Minority vote by raise of hands in the next workshop will have the last say on creating a name.
I will send another e-mail on the PowerPoint Moraga – I do not want to send to many attached files in fear that it will wind up in a spam filter.
Thank you all for you care and concern, for all who are desperate and hungry. It is important not to look at this endeavor as a club, but look at it as though someone you love is out there hungry and in need.
"The freedom of man, I contend, is the freedom to eat."
Eleanor Roosevelt
Hunger in Hernando
Moving Forward to Feed Hernando Counties Hungry
We are now splitting into groups needing volunteers for growing, consulting, outreach, marketing, administrative, accounting, canning, and more.
Our ambition is to:
Access to healthy food can be difficult around the world, and here in the Tampa Bay area. A workshop will address the growing hunger problem in Hernando County.
The plan is to create awareness of the unsettling poverty situation in Hernando and other counties in Florida. According to Green World Path Inc., a large number of people in Hernando especially are struggling because they ca...not afford to feed themselves and their families. Dori Bon, Outreach Coordinator for Green World Path says helping to grow healthy food will greatly support hurting families in the area.
This is from the Public Radio Station it really sums up our goals:
“Hernando County was the hungriest county, hungrier people, in the whole state and that shook me up. I had worked on a homeless coalition when I was attending college. We did a count, there were literally thousands of people who were homeless at that point, and it has progressively gotten worse. We have a community garden here in Hernando County that a lot of people don’t even realize that its here…and our own county is going hungry.”
Bon recognizes this opportunity to make a significant difference in reducing hunger. The class is open to the public and everyone is encouraged to get involved in the movement to grow all natural, healthy foods for hungry citizens.
“We find that there is a huge need for it and that’s why were opening the doors for this. We want to kick it off and invite anybody and everybody that is willing and wanting to learn to come. We’d like to have preachers, church groups, we’d like to have corporations; anybody that’s involved and has an interest in that, homeless coalition groups, colleges, and we need volunteers. We have to start somewhere…why not in the hungriest county in Florida?”
With food prices high, it’s difficult for some people to afford what they need to survive. This is a growing issue, involving not only Florida, but also the whole world.
“We’ve got a world shortage of food. This shortage of food big business, as big corporations and marketers’ worldwide business create a shortage. A lot of businesses are keeping the food high, keeping the bottom line in black. So it’s very difficult for ends to meet all over.”
Bon says the goal is to get other organizations and churches hooked and then begin the project by growing food for people in need.
“We are going to start educating on building soils to the main mission groups like the churches, community gardens, activist groups, etc. Then from there, they teach. We’ll take it right from the seed to harvesting. You can grow food anywhere, you can grow right in your backyard, grow it through minis able parks, anywhere as long as it’s open to do so. There’s no reason Florida should be hungry at all.”
Growing Food for Hernando County’s Hungry takes place next Monday morning at 9 in Brooksville.
Hernando County
Green World Path Inc.
Grow Gardens and local community farms.
We had an excellent turnout Monday August 8th for our third meeting, we are really pulling together to make a difference by building gardens and farms for the hungry in our county. We have a fantastic group of very talented people, chefs, entrepreneurs, farmers, accountants, activist, clergy, published authors, social workers all filled with leadership, passion, creativity, out of the box thinkers, all wanting to make a positive difference by growing food locally for our neighbors.
We all separated into groups to discuss strategies, creating events, education, gleaning, grant writing, creating non for profits, canning and growing food- all on behalf of the hungry folks in our county and beyond. Each group created the next strategy meetings for segmented groups.
Please follow the notes for dates and times for each group. The next meeting leadership meeting will be September 9th at 9:00 am this is only for the team leaders, I will send out a separate email on agenda and topics to discuss in the next email.
Dates for Events Hunger in Hernando
October 22 Auro Community Garden Hayride tours 5-8 pm 4095 Broad Street Brooksville Fl
October 29th Monster Transmission Car Show and Food Drive Hernado County Fairgrounds
Follow progress at www.codegreencommunity.com
Green World Path Face Book
Dori Bon Face Book
Hunger in Hernado Forum
August 8th – Meeting Discussion, Dori Bon
Presented Ray Nielsen owner of Green World Path
Topic:
Shared details from our leadership meeting held on July 29. Attendees of this meeting introduced themselves. Dori explained we would break into focus groups and also shared the some of the duties each group may be involved with. Each group was to take minutes to share with the whole. The groups are as follows:
- Growing and Education - )
- Community Awareness, Legal, Accounting, Administration, Insurance -
- Gleaning Group and Canning Group -
- Education and Outreach -
Outreach, Educational, Marketing, Food Prep and Distribution Group,
Minutes taken by Buffy Adams Smith - Visalus Sarasota Florida
Group meeting Brian’s Place August 19th 9:00am
Agenda and Topics-
Karen Greenway and Laura DeWitt 20 years in business – Brooksville Natural Foods, Spring Hill Natural Foods, Inverness Natural Foods (and more) – Creating marketing and outreach strategies, talking about the group on WJB radio shows, and education on health while creating awareness of the group “Hunger in Hernando” Opening a booth at the Brooksville Cycling Event for awareness of many people suffering from hunger in our county
Chef Brian of Brian’s Place Hernando Beach discus classes for food prep-educational classes-recipes – group dinners for 50 to 150 people creating a donation jar at Brian’s Place restaurant. Creating a banner is also part of the discussion.
Eric Stewart of Code Green Community filmed the class and will download on to www.codegreencommunity.com site and will film ongoing classes and download on his website and You Tube for documentation. He will start the same type of Model in Pasco County learning from Hunger in Hernando’s model.
Richard Lindsey from Victorious Life Church- will create awareness and bring in the Church pantry –they are looking for donations and toiletries.
Angela Gilbert from Blessings in a Back Pack will coordinate a meeting for the many children’s Grandparents for their involvement seeking food for Hungry Children in Hernando County.
Buffy Smith Visalus- will donate meals from Visalus Sciences-nutritional Shakes and work with educational outreach.
Thomas Achilles Monster Transmission – Will work in awareness, outreach and educational arm of Hunger in Hernado self Healing and nutritional.
Linda Borowski – volunteer outreach arm of the group
Reiki Brown – Published Author –“Product of Our Environment” Creating a Cook Book for Fund raisers
Dorothy and Doug Poteet – Professional Teachers at Pine Grove Elementary School – Edible School Yard Project- growing, teaching, filling school cafeteria full of fresh produce.
John Mayo - Volunteer
Growers and Consultant Group
Topic of discussion:
Identify and grow vegetable plants that would be highly nutritious and excepted from children and adults.
Use Echo from Fort Myers as a model, creating satellite gardens throughout Hernando County as growing areas for community gardens and outreach.
Creating two traditional large gardens and have expert farmers manage the gardens and farms.
Find out the start up cost for one acres or less on traditional and vertical farming.
Suggestions made for seed collectors groups, transplant starter groups, gardeners and volunteers.
Group Farmers and advisors:
Team Leader Hernado County - Mark Counihan - GreenLine Company – Farmer, nurseryman volunteer one acre designated for growing for the Hungry in Hernando.
Team Leader Paso County -Peter and Mellissa Kanaris Green Dreams – Nursery growing and advisors
William Ford – Auro Community Garden – farmer, teacher and advisor on growing
J.B. William Technical Director Green World Path – advisor on building soils for the group
Team Leader Sarasota County Gary Adams Green Leaf Technologies-nurseryman, grower, advisor
Gardeners and Volunteers:
Randee Marie and Harry Torrents
Bruce and Jaky Banker
Steve and Marlene Ewankowich
Denise Griffith
Audrey Rumsey
Gleaning and Canning Committee
Susan Smith Team Leader
Seeking donations : canning jars, lids, spices, sugar and all canning accessories. Creating class of 3- 4 people at the cannery.
Need a start date on the classes possibly starting a co-op.
Use of the Rock Cannery. Find out about the new laws on canning, selling and donating canned food.
Needing people to glean farms and pick up produce to bring to outreach.
Members: Danielle Ford Barn Cat Honey, Crystal Hozapfel, Wood Apple Soaps
Asking Dori Bon to find class attendees and more volunteers for this group
Administrative, Grant Writer, Graphics
Dori Bon – Green World Path
Kathy Conklin –Realtor Horizon Palm Reality
Achilles Thomas –Monster Transmission
Dee Rosa- Accounting Springs of Life Church
Stanley Jakubowski - Auro Community Garden
Carolyn Zivkovic
Topic: Creating a non for profit structure or 501c3. Discussion of the original mission statement created in the first class. Hunger in Hernando was decided for the name of the group. Bookkeeping and opening a possible bank account under the name of Hunger in Hernando. This topic will be discussed in the next leadership meeting.
Discussion of logging names and e-mails and phone numbers of all volunteers on an excel sheet. Copying and filing all minutes in each segmented group.
The group is seeking a grant writer for the group, Hungry in Hernando.
Dori Bon Building and creating a partial guideline for a non for profit statement that would parallel Hunger in Hernando Mission statement.
Achilles Thomas from Monster Tranmission volunteered to create a logo and letter head. The group talked about creating information and flyers for hand out to marketing and education.
Creating agendas and meeting times for the team leaders.
Eric Stewart volunteered to create You Tube videos and locations for filming and documenting via Code Green Community on the progress of the group.
Growing, Consulting
This segment is hands on growers, farming, and gardening; growing fruits and vegetables under the direction of the farm manager, consultant, or crop advisor.
Things to discuss before starting
1. Creating steps on how to set up a farm or garden for volunteers - Then write out steps.
2. Create a plan - the type of garden, example, traditional crops, raised beds, vertical, hydroponic, aquaponics.
3. Area to grow- how much sun, shade trees, fencing know the land before it is developed for growing
4. Water and irrigation – will the garden or farm area need, hand help hose sprayer, injector systems, industrial tractor boom spray, injectors, ect.
5. Crop choice seasonal –
6. Is the growing area intense sun and cold weather - shade cloth-lumanet?
7. Green House needed, shade house.
8. Will medium be mixing soils or be soil less?
9. Who is in charge of growing transplants?
10. Who is the seed collector
11. Soil reports
12. Fertilizers
13. Pest control applicators.
14. Fungus control
Accounting Grant Writing and Administrative
This group is all about working keep volunteers and members informed and updated.
1. Assign a person with Accounting background or bookkeeping group to set up accounting system, example- QuickBooks
2. Computer literate
3. Should the group become a 501c3?
4. Experienced Grant writers or English majors
5. Secretarial – computer literate (assignee)
6. Writer for marketing materials
7. Graphic designs
8. Office background, filing, editing
9. Creating blogs, writing, news updates
10. Photographers
11. Keeping list of all members, volunteers, gardens and farms
12. Problem solvers and thinking out of the box
13. Creating with the group a 5 year plan
14. Keeping all information to hand out on donations for gleaning committee
.
Community Awareness and Education
This Group is the face voice of Hunger in Hernando
1. Community Awareness and Education, marketing : growing food, i.e.,
2. Handing out Food
3. Helping with filling Backpacks
4. Speaking to churches, non-profits, schools, farm land, attend events to promote Hunger in Hernando
5. Hunger awareness, fund raising, what to eat and why.
6. The importance of eating local healthy food
7. Classes on how to prepare food
8. Dropping off Flyers and relaying information about Hungry in Hernando
9. Creating outlets for donations and food pick up
10. Creating Farm co-operatives
11. Finding speakers, talent, writers, public, figures artist, to represent Hunger in Hernando
12. Alerting Newspapers, radio stations, all media about upcoming events,
13. Creating a buzz- large network though community
14. Creating events throughout community
Gleaning Group
Collecting leftover crops from farmers' fields after produce harvested, or on fields where it is not economically profitable to harvest, obtains labor to harvest and determine distribution.
1. Knowledge of picking fruits and vegetables
2. Creating a open communication between the farm and the gleaners
3. Watching videos on picking produce
4. Knowledge of picking produce that has recently been sprayed
5. Knowledge Respect for the farm where gleaning
6. Obeying all Farm rules
7. Creating a need for Gleaners by having donation information available for the farmer (from administrative)
8. Creating pick up and drop off points
9. Creating schedules for volunteers
10. Someone in charge of water and cups
11. Someone in charge of gloves and knives
12. Someone in charge Buckets
13. Sunscreen
14. Alert and awareness of wildlife habitats
15. Learn how to look for snakes and biting insects.
Canning Group
Preserving harvested produce while utilizing the Rock Cannery.
1. Instructing on canning and preserving food
2. Learning how to can and preserve food
3. Volunteering to can and preserve Food for Hunger in Hernando
4. Knowledge of seasonal produce
5. Creating a pick up point with Gleaners
6. Creating a drop off point of food with Church groups and Outreach committee
7. Getting recipes for marking to the Outreach and Educational arm of Hunger in Hernando
8. Helping to clean the cannery after using the facility
9. Obey all rules and instructions of the cannery.
10. Bringing gloves
11. Getting donations of jars and lids
12. Getting donations for salt, vinegar, sugar and spices
13. Getting donations for labels
Learn How to Grow
This group teaches anyone, any family how to grow food in their own back yard or property.
1. Instruction by a seasoned farmer, crop advisor or consultant
2. Teaching all aspects of growing food independently
3. Lectures on building soils
4. Power Point Instructional on:
5. Conventional growing
6. Raised beds
7. Hydroponics
8. Vertical growing
9. aquaponics
10. Hands on approach
11. Seeds and transplant information on how to grow.
12. Seasonal crops
13. Watering
14. Fertilization
15. Pest control
16. Fungus control
17. Keeping varmints out
18. Fruit and grape growing
19. Creating edible landscapes
20. Rain barrels
