tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-68184791892976694962024-02-18T20:44:25.097-08:00RFHS Greenhouse and GardensMichael Thompsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13842072221798462123noreply@blogger.comBlogger26125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6818479189297669496.post-38194317862344228452013-09-10T22:56:00.002-07:002013-09-11T00:14:22.334-07:00Teacher Training Workshops<br />
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Meet Colorado Learning Standards Via Gardening Activities Indoors and Out!<br />
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Fat City Farmers offers you and your school <u>FREE</u> workshops to make food and garden education exciting, dynamic and tasty.<br />
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All workshops are hands-on. You will do the activities that you can then bring to your students. Take home full lesson plans. Harvest good health, and excited, engaged, caring students.<br />
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Math Science Literacy Food Garden Management<br />
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Thursday September 19, 4:00 - 5:30 at the Roaring Fork High School Garden, Carbondale CO<br />
Dr. Illene Pevec ~ 970.274.1622 ~ to register<br />
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Download the <a href="https://app.box.com/s/su5s9r8ta09vuo7ei07r">RFV School Gardens Report 2013</a> <br />
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Thank you!Michael Thompsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13842072221798462123noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6818479189297669496.post-31474539697955648882012-10-15T16:42:00.001-07:002012-10-18T10:30:17.686-07:00<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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We are in transition from building this wonderful facility to managing it sustainably for the indefinite future. Our strategy for doing this includes three elements. First, we are working with the RE-1 School District, the Rotary Club and Carbondale restaurants to help us create "Enterpise Teams" of students to raise certain herbs and vegetables for restaurant kitchens, as small businesses, complete with business plans, food safety training and enterprises possible under the new Colorado Cottage Foods Law. Second, we are partnering with Youth Entity and their culinary arts program for high school students, toward establishing model relationships between young growers and chefs, to inspire all of the students to establish business networks for their passion to grow high quality food. Third, we are working to gather a group of Carbondale gardeners, to help design, plan and create a "Community Forest Garden on the eastern half of the RFHS outdoor garden, where we have already planted an orchard of fruit trees. We hope this will become a new model of community garden, one based on Natures "polyculture" methods, and focused on shared work and harvests.<br />
Please download the slideshow we created to help us inspire help in the community, by clicking <a href="https://www.box.com/s/s946okol2gvqsh1p02v8">HERE</a>.<br />
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Finally, we are looking for a partner to
invest in a tiny enterprise involving our ag-bio students, of raising fish in
the growing dome fish tanks. Until now,
the tanks have been filled with water and floating plants, just to help provide
the mass in which we store solar heat for cold nights in Winter. We hope this will be a healthy, thriving enterprise, providing fresh fish to restaurants and the school kitchen.</div>
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<br />Michael Thompsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13842072221798462123noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6818479189297669496.post-21426990756294616332011-10-17T10:08:00.000-07:002011-10-17T10:09:30.523-07:00Post Independent Article - Agriculture Education<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Hadley Hentschel,<br />
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</tbody></table>John Stroud wrote an article in the Saturday, Oct. 15 Glenwood Post Independent, <a href="http://www.postindependent.com/article/20111016/VALLEYNEWS/111019924/1083&ParentProfile=1074">"Agriculture Education Sees Growth",</a> prominently featuring our Ag-Ed Center at the Roaring Fork High School, with our enthusiastic students well quoted!<br />
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<div class="articlecaption">Photo Credit: Kelley Cox, Post Independent:</div><div class="articlecaption">Roaring Fork High School science teacher Hadley Hentschel is right at home in the school's greenhouse dome in Carbondale. His emphasis in the school's agricultural biology class is on growing foods that can be served in the school cafeteria.</div>Michael Thompsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13842072221798462123noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6818479189297669496.post-10457606562217339002011-10-14T22:52:00.000-07:002011-10-17T10:23:53.585-07:00RFHS Garden - First Summer 2011<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">RFHS Grain Trials, Summer 2011</td></tr>
</tbody></table>Summer 2011 saw the beginning of the 1/2 acre garden outside of the Growing Dome. Students learned while helping Mary to compost, layer materials and build planting rows in the garden, build temporary row covers for early Spring starts, and plant the first grain trials around the dome.<br />
Some of the produce harvested from the dome and garden this Summer was sold to the Carbondale Food Coop, our first earned income!<br />
Most of the vegetables and grains raised in the garden this Summer were harvested and integrated into the cafeteria kitchen, or processed and frozen for later use. Two Aspen High School graduates, volunteering at the Permaculture Institute before attending Prescott College for agricultural sciences, harvested the rye and the hard red winter wheat grains, threshing the grains from the chaff using a push mower on a mesh picnic table, with a sheet of plywood underneath to collect the grains. They netted nearly 50 lbs of rye and wheat.<br />
Mary Cervantes did a great job with the plants in the Growing Dome and Garden last school year and this Summer, and she left everything is good condition for her successor.<br />
Hadley Hentschel and his students have been putting the outside beds into hibernation mode for Winter, after mulching lots of decaying plant material over the soil, to enrich them for next year. The annual beds in the dome have been harvested, mulched and replanted with Winter greens and vegetables.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Spring 2011 - Beginning the outside garden</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Fava beans from the Grow Dome, Spring 2011</td></tr>
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</tbody></table>Michael Thompsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13842072221798462123noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6818479189297669496.post-66375336201239844992011-04-18T14:47:00.000-07:002011-04-18T14:47:02.987-07:00Spring 2011<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjEgkWMHP6LP8p85kjEcyUWSPoeozN-OTF7pf6WHjaz5n13cxQKjnVjVvWuXzywUQCGO6rXbCbaULYzmGIpvimQI6RBQ12fHJa3LUtVVzcL8f4grnEds_FJUilF88P5VWH4HYYWwXb4SUPS/s1600/DSCN4450.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; cssfloat: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" r6="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjEgkWMHP6LP8p85kjEcyUWSPoeozN-OTF7pf6WHjaz5n13cxQKjnVjVvWuXzywUQCGO6rXbCbaULYzmGIpvimQI6RBQ12fHJa3LUtVVzcL8f4grnEds_FJUilF88P5VWH4HYYWwXb4SUPS/s320/DSCN4450.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhMrbsY66a6z-Dsbn3iczBeFPKJvqURDzO0M8yeHOJZYfn2xoEUSg75EtlM2lIr5UzEEe1-GDcJnRC0DggYI55NxN_H4o0-9fZHnTqBmp2QSe1mp7y4E8_9XNinraX_TKX39kej-WhJmN2Z/s1600/DSCN4449.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" r6="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhMrbsY66a6z-Dsbn3iczBeFPKJvqURDzO0M8yeHOJZYfn2xoEUSg75EtlM2lIr5UzEEe1-GDcJnRC0DggYI55NxN_H4o0-9fZHnTqBmp2QSe1mp7y4E8_9XNinraX_TKX39kej-WhJmN2Z/s320/DSCN4449.JPG" width="320" /></a> </div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br />
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</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">Mary already has some beautiful produce for sale at the Carbondale Food Co-Op from the Growing Dome and Garden!</div>Michael Thompsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13842072221798462123noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6818479189297669496.post-64674664746140101482011-04-05T12:10:00.000-07:002011-04-05T12:10:19.663-07:00Hanging Plant Shelves<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVsywF1Nf3taEEtBl2i2BMSfyfCCw5kK7KAyPozgxQYKch2ABNfCReHLIx6rphAcoTp9D5Fkh7wB84jXyPp9gnE_p6awPz6DVoNE89UYINTTUVDygJ6YJMb5cLCCDfXtzNvUY-M3i1lnVk/s1600/Hanging+Shelves+004.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" r6="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVsywF1Nf3taEEtBl2i2BMSfyfCCw5kK7KAyPozgxQYKch2ABNfCReHLIx6rphAcoTp9D5Fkh7wB84jXyPp9gnE_p6awPz6DVoNE89UYINTTUVDygJ6YJMb5cLCCDfXtzNvUY-M3i1lnVk/s320/Hanging+Shelves+004.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>In order to take more advantage of available sunlight for additional plants, students <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Ixchel and Jordan hang wire shelves that were donated by Habitat for Humanity. Students will use these shelves for flats of propagating seeds, and for culinary herbs grown in small pots.</span>Michael Thompsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13842072221798462123noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6818479189297669496.post-24236030614816078082010-10-31T16:16:00.000-07:002010-12-21T14:06:25.493-08:00Harvesting Chard & Basil to make a Veggie Lasagne in the HS Cafeteria!<div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjY1aKHU3uIeDGfxI67zPU_JB6BeC85YpYdIk_LWrGtjiwRM6Rl_yH3FWZ4s9iqsm0hojX8_gZBIOO_YkP9aTPtsYASoddOmRLbQiGfbS4xbRsUUtxTEMHFpFvbfwC1yf73j57txxNTjwB2/s1600/IMG_0878.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; cssfloat: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" nx="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjY1aKHU3uIeDGfxI67zPU_JB6BeC85YpYdIk_LWrGtjiwRM6Rl_yH3FWZ4s9iqsm0hojX8_gZBIOO_YkP9aTPtsYASoddOmRLbQiGfbS4xbRsUUtxTEMHFpFvbfwC1yf73j57txxNTjwB2/s320/IMG_0878.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhIcgVBBqq_JbmBwgsVSIlXm4hZaK1rQIp5YLjK7hwoTX3TpXRFx5fK-z3oX1SQk3eWbik5w3YqOkWs7Vrw2oxWDaO-ya2x9_n12rIm93A8thtbPhJUlM_kkkU3_oJxLHUnSru5uRUjk4qV/s1600/IMG_0875.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" nx="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhIcgVBBqq_JbmBwgsVSIlXm4hZaK1rQIp5YLjK7hwoTX3TpXRFx5fK-z3oX1SQk3eWbik5w3YqOkWs7Vrw2oxWDaO-ya2x9_n12rIm93A8thtbPhJUlM_kkkU3_oJxLHUnSru5uRUjk4qV/s320/IMG_0875.jpg" width="320" /></a>Between the outdoor composted planting bed Jerome and Hadley taught the students to create last year, and the food growing like gangbusters in the new Growing Dome, one of Hadley's 2010-2011classes harvested veggies to make a wonderful Lasagne!</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><a name='more'></a><br />
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</div>Michael Thompsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13842072221798462123noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6818479189297669496.post-11349689301526534172010-10-31T15:58:00.000-07:002010-10-31T16:05:35.113-07:00Planting the Growing Dome Beds, August 2010<div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhf-lb09fWR5ecohIzp-5w6pMykYq8owJvE5cGe2BbqJSXq3aCXNpQz-pGSwxZla-rUf9c-t7Zx5_fPIw8tYCBABdfHylyYqyYOZiKZucm-TZwwvHvG0acWxJjZnxUvNTC1b0EtVvWekaCs/s1600/IMG_0864.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; cssfloat: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" nx="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhf-lb09fWR5ecohIzp-5w6pMykYq8owJvE5cGe2BbqJSXq3aCXNpQz-pGSwxZla-rUf9c-t7Zx5_fPIw8tYCBABdfHylyYqyYOZiKZucm-TZwwvHvG0acWxJjZnxUvNTC1b0EtVvWekaCs/s320/IMG_0864.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEicnWGHEESWjnPpNfyLegtx2Lxahz4L-WPsg0ENjiCprN8oXfUnApb8uE-U2i5aVMMvg2G49plG1vAiTttQrGEfrSeIC_-PZc6qRKt9_rkLoiUjfaasGfRFJoXtMcw4doI3-6lZvCNZszL5/s1600/IMG_0860.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" nx="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEicnWGHEESWjnPpNfyLegtx2Lxahz4L-WPsg0ENjiCprN8oXfUnApb8uE-U2i5aVMMvg2G49plG1vAiTttQrGEfrSeIC_-PZc6qRKt9_rkLoiUjfaasGfRFJoXtMcw4doI3-6lZvCNZszL5/s320/IMG_0860.jpg" width="320" /></a>Here are a few photos of Jerome teaching students and volunteers, during the planting of the Growing Dome planting beds in late August, 2010.</div></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br />
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</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">Roaring Fork High School is off to a great year of growing food in their new Growing Dome, thanks to all the donors who have made it possible! (see the donor list, right sidebar). Thank you Everyone!</div>Michael Thompsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13842072221798462123noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6818479189297669496.post-73501807281396485262010-07-10T22:45:00.000-07:002010-07-10T22:46:15.971-07:00Filling the Floor and Building Planting Beds: June/July<div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgCSEQSZS_s7USr7AE8Wqsojqhk3joqz9yAs90MW9bcSNUZx_BrPIrQiV3h75lt6d6fPVsr7f-LaU3RZcU37f7VWS2RBeuRBGnbz-7qrEWgEq4iRZ-_WLoof2CPJdfS8usaWZIOZ313WV47/s1600/DSCN3795.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; cssfloat: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" rw="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgCSEQSZS_s7USr7AE8Wqsojqhk3joqz9yAs90MW9bcSNUZx_BrPIrQiV3h75lt6d6fPVsr7f-LaU3RZcU37f7VWS2RBeuRBGnbz-7qrEWgEq4iRZ-_WLoof2CPJdfS8usaWZIOZ313WV47/s320/DSCN3795.JPG" /></a></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgApMCUzKfx4UX7_prhbr7G5-ShCYvJG5P8dEUhabytqVyGyldApbU-GsdLDd4NorBOZg1vc9byxZIR7CueW-kq8YOF3iXxFcXlIuRJbaahFnUys8lwI5jNoqi1f70fv0TH2QKEGk3l0HdN/s1600/DSCN3784.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" rw="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgApMCUzKfx4UX7_prhbr7G5-ShCYvJG5P8dEUhabytqVyGyldApbU-GsdLDd4NorBOZg1vc9byxZIR7CueW-kq8YOF3iXxFcXlIuRJbaahFnUys8lwI5jNoqi1f70fv0TH2QKEGk3l0HdN/s320/DSCN3784.JPG" /></a>Chris Carnevale and members of the Maroon Corps volunteers joined us to move almost three truckloads of soil into the Growing Dome to level the floor, before we built the planting beds. Riley Blacksmith donated most of the cost of making the planting bed brackets you see here, and Valley Lumber gave us a great price on the rebar, u-bolts and corrugated metal. We hope to complete the planting beds, fill them with soil and plants, build the aquaculture tanks, and wire the climate battery thermostats and fans, all before a Community "Thank You" Potluck we plan to hold from 5 - 8 pm, Sunday, August 1.</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br />
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In late May and early June, we placed the Insulation Skirt around the dome in a trench dug by our volunteer excavator, Frank Hagemann. Justin and Patrick, interns at CRMPI, worked with Michael and Jerome to complete the insulation perimeter and to form and insulate for the door slabs. TJ Conrete sent a crew over in mid-June to pour the entry slabs, and Louis Meyer brought his backhoe/loader to backfill the perimeter for us. Thank you, everyone!</div>Michael Thompsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13842072221798462123noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6818479189297669496.post-27572530726127541902010-05-19T20:35:00.000-07:002010-05-19T20:35:39.430-07:00A "Sister" Program Launches in Denver<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjpaty8F2C0asv-__hGAho-GG8rgnv1U2kTupiXqFkMupvNZvhXe0Dw1FGRNVYgZFp-HMccI_a3pbwpXdFoEc_lZujfiPijL6yNgLReYL8s0qyP9AU5HfvHsvRDzNzrogGfwo_ar7E1x_YV/s1600/DPS-SproutCityFarms-Denver.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjpaty8F2C0asv-__hGAho-GG8rgnv1U2kTupiXqFkMupvNZvhXe0Dw1FGRNVYgZFp-HMccI_a3pbwpXdFoEc_lZujfiPijL6yNgLReYL8s0qyP9AU5HfvHsvRDzNzrogGfwo_ar7E1x_YV/s320/DPS-SproutCityFarms-Denver.jpg" wt="true" /></a></div>DPS Partners with Colorado Organic Producers Association (COPA), University of Colorado Denver (UCD) and Sprout City Farms (SCF) to launch a pilot urban agriculture program at McGlone and Bradley Elementary Schools: <a href="http://www.ucdenver.edu/about/newsroom/newsreleases/Pages/UrbanFarmProgramTransformsSchoolyards.aspx">READ THE ARTICLE</a>Michael Thompsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13842072221798462123noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6818479189297669496.post-91534444306074767372010-05-17T16:40:00.000-07:002010-05-19T09:35:26.399-07:00Growing Dome installation complete!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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A truckload of straw from the Co-Op enabled us to keep moving, getting the dome frame and the top vents installed by the end of the day, and the last drop of rain for awhile.<br />
Sunny Sunday provided us perfect weather for completing the dome covering and insulating the interior walls, and on Monday our Growing Spaces crew completed the entrances, hung the doors, installed the ventilation fans, packed up and headed for home. Thank you, Growing Spaces! This Growing Dome will make you proud.<br />
We are still in need of funds and help as we plant the Growing Dome, fence the garden areas, run irrigation systems and prepare the outdoor beds for planting. Please mail donations to:<br />
Fat City Farmers, Inc.<br />
P.O. Box 995<br />
Basalt CO 81621<br />
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Fat City Farmers is a registered non-profit corporation, 501c3 EIN #20-5698092Michael Thompsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13842072221798462123noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6818479189297669496.post-28006445220616955592010-04-24T15:44:00.000-07:002010-08-16T08:54:25.084-07:00Climate Battery Construction - Volunteer Weekend, April 24-25<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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Saturday morning, many members of the Carbondale Rotary Club, RFHS Principal Clif Colia, project organizer Illene Pevec, and more members of the Carbondale community, guided by Michael and aided by Frank and his skid-steer, built the remaining three manifolds, assembled the climate battery and backfilled it with soil. Thanks to Roaring Fork Outdoor Volunteers, we had all the Shovels, McClouds and Wheelbarrows we needed. We left one row of tubing on the east side for the high school Ag-science students to install on Sunday, because they were away at sports games all day Saturday.<br />
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A. Welcoming everyone, catching up, getting dinner together, seating;<br />
B. Dinner and informal discussion;<br />
C. Fat City Farmers / CRMPI business:<br />
a. Roaring Fork High School Greenhouse Project update:<br />
i. Budget:<br />
1. Construction Costs<br />
2. Fundraising remaining<br />
ii. Construction Schedule<br />
iii. Carbondale Rotary Club involvement<br />
iv. Planning for Community Celebration<br />
<a name='more'></a>b. 2009 Financials (AJ Joos)<br />
c. Aspen School Composting Program update (David Bedford)<br />
d. Grant Opportunities coming up:<br />
i. C.O.R.E. – May 1, 2010<br />
ii. Rotary Club<br />
e. Plan for fundraising to support CRMPI in RFHS Program Development, greenhouse & garden management;<br />
i. Community Organizations, Clubs, NGO’s<br />
ii. Alpine Bank, other Banks (we haven’t tapped them yet, and they would really want to be part of this effort)<br />
f. Future School Greenhouses, planning steps to be taken:<br />
i. Basalt Elementary School Dome (possibly Summer 2010, energetic parents group ready to help);<br />
ii. Aspen Middle School Greenhouse (big project, probably $150,000 construction, possibly Summer 2011)<br />
D. Fat City Farmers mission & budget discussion:<br />
a. If we complete RFHS greenhouse and garden, and Basalt Elementary dome this year, we will have raised and spent around $100,000 from a willing community;<br />
b. If we plan, design, fund-raise and accomplish construction of the Aspen Middle School greenhouse in 2011, we will have to come close to doubling our efforts in 2010, raising about $200,000. I personally think this should not be difficult in Aspen.<br />
c. How will we accomplish these fundraising goals? Let’s make a plan for how each of us can help. Maybe we should have a training session in how to present our mission to people, how to get all the folks out there who are TALKING about local food and about gardening, all the businesses wanting to be GREEN. Here we are with the perfect opportunities for them to shine. Let’s help get them to the table to help us with this mission;<br />
d. Basalt Thrift Store: See how their mission is progressing: Tom;<br />
E. Dessert and toasts to launching our first successful school greenhouse project!<br />
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I hope everyone is watching “Jamie Oliver’s Food Revolution” on ABC-Television Friday evenings at 8:00. I don’t know how many weeks it will go, but it’s all about changing food in schools and the communities around them. Very inspirational stuff!Michael Thompsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13842072221798462123noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6818479189297669496.post-18266304096529741722010-03-30T13:21:00.000-07:002010-05-18T07:37:21.863-07:00Ready, Steady, GO!!<div style="text-align: left;"><br />
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It's taken a long time, I know, but we are ready to build the greenhouse dome! First, Frank Hagemann will dig the excavation by April 23, then the climate battery built and backfilled during a volunteer weekend, Friday, Saturday and Sunday, April 23, 24 & 25.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Then our foundation contractor, TJ Concrete, will move in with our excavator to augur the pier holes, locate and set the sonotube forms with rebar and pour the concrete. We will give them two weeks to accomplish this, then on Monday May 10, Growing Spaces' assembly crew will begin erecting the dome. They will welcome small numbers of volunteers to help, Monday thru Friday. We anticipate engaging the HS students in this work, primarily, but will welcome anyone with a whole day on their hands, who is good with their hands.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Finally, we will have our second and final volunteer weekend, Friday May 14 through Sunday May 16, to place the perimeter insualtion, backfill the insulation with gravel, and to clean up the site. On May 30, Sunday afternoon at 4:00, we will have a community potluck dinner at the greenhouse dome, during which time we'll take the opportunnity of an audience to thank all the contributors to getting this greenhouse built, and to inform everyone of our educational plans for the High School and the entire Community. Please let us know if we are missing any donor's names in our thank-you list in the right sidebar.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Thank, you, thank you, everyone!!</div>Michael Thompsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13842072221798462123noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6818479189297669496.post-65776332804053453492009-11-20T13:39:00.001-08:002009-11-20T14:03:30.998-08:00RFHS Greenhouse Design<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMvYt6X-MlhAY_yAj0ShyphenhyphenWP4bJYE_g5g8PczYgqfIgf8fSk1Ex57_S-rZDZ4760FUr6yULkrnWB9gkCMDx0fCPZtlb_HOnDQ0RTl3EY4wQVgWxA50HM4iJ6YUvUiZgurFcDvHYU_ohEkfv/s1600/RFHSgreenhouseDomeSiteESD-_1.jpg"><img style="WIDTH: 320px; HEIGHT: 214px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5406304032627044050" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMvYt6X-MlhAY_yAj0ShyphenhyphenWP4bJYE_g5g8PczYgqfIgf8fSk1Ex57_S-rZDZ4760FUr6yULkrnWB9gkCMDx0fCPZtlb_HOnDQ0RTl3EY4wQVgWxA50HM4iJ6YUvUiZgurFcDvHYU_ohEkfv/s320/RFHSgreenhouseDomeSiteESD-_1.jpg" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmkAiCYWbaiLL7G0mD_OV8XMgx6AA-i4T83UOu_RLqoQ8Rw5vkymrKkFezTBi4olomE4FiBVKstfDwjyh7IjipUwEM-ZGYxmJeCPL2VWAhWLoRaDIMQaFSHtPIqmxTwjTVuJVGZQSPlhZ0/s1600/RFHSgreenhouseDomeSiteESD-_2_2.jpg"><img style="WIDTH: 320px; HEIGHT: 214px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5406309620251803890" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmkAiCYWbaiLL7G0mD_OV8XMgx6AA-i4T83UOu_RLqoQ8Rw5vkymrKkFezTBi4olomE4FiBVKstfDwjyh7IjipUwEM-ZGYxmJeCPL2VWAhWLoRaDIMQaFSHtPIqmxTwjTVuJVGZQSPlhZ0/s320/RFHSgreenhouseDomeSiteESD-_2_2.jpg" /></a><br /><div>Click on an image to see it appear larger on your screen. <a href="http://www.box.net/shared/2l21ormtu9">DOWNLOAD PDF </a></div>Michael Thompsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13842072221798462123noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6818479189297669496.post-35559256109603638722009-08-26T15:25:00.000-07:002010-05-27T09:05:41.234-07:00Draft of Colorado Home & Garden show Grant - Letter of intentAugust 26, 2009<br />
We would like to express our gratitude for the opportunity to share the details of our project with you and thank you for providing grants for horticultural education in Colorado. Our organization it committed to increasing the health and well being of our local communities through local food production and agricultural education. We are very excited about the Roaring Fork high school Greenhouse & Garden project because we understand the value of growing and cooking food as a hands-on teaching tool and hope the project can serve as an inspiration and model for other public schools in Colorado and the nation as a whole.<br />
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ROARING FORK HIGH SCHOOL GREENHOUSE & GARDEN PROJECT<br />
Initiated and managed by the Central Rocky Mountain Permaculture Institute<br />
Fundraising and community organization managed by Fat City Farmers, Inc. and Illene Pevec (Angel earning her wings);<br />
42’ dome greenhouse & 1-1/2 acre edible schoolyard project<br />
Outdoor classroom space / Horticulture, cooking and food prep vocational classes<br />
Cafeteria composting area and worm farm<br />
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Mission Statement:<br />
The Central Rocky Mountain Permaculture Institute was founded in 1987 to research and demonstrate methods of environmentally sound agriculture, gardening, and landscape design. The Institute is dedicated to providing affordable educational workshops, residential internships and Permaculture design courses, and features a 1/2 acre high altitude demonstration garden and several greenhouses on site. Since 2007, CRMPI has widened it’s educational focus to community based agriculture initiatives, such as the CSA?Farm School and Edible Schoolyard projects, to help restore a local food economy the Roaring Fork Valley.<br />
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History:<br />
For decades, the Central Rocky Mountain Permaculture Institute has been a leader in local sustainability and has been an advocate for ecologically sound organic growing practices. The Institute has provided courses in Permaculture Design and community accesible workshops on many gardening related topics. CRMPI has always advocated local food production for the health of the community and to reduce the reliance on fossil fuels.<br />
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Project Purpose:<br />
The Roaring Fork high school Greenhouse & Garden project is a collective effort between CRMPI, the RE-1 school district, partner organizations, University extension agents, volunteers and the town of Carbondale. The high school has set aside land surrounding the school building to use for this purpose, and unanimous approval from the school board has been given to build a 42’ geodesic dome greenhouse and a 1/2 acre garden on the grounds of the Roaring Fork High School in Carbondale. Letters of recommendation have been received from the Colorado Community College System and and research on the project is being coordinated by Illene Pevec, a Ph.D. candidate from CU Boulder.<br />
This project is privately funded and will provide an outdoor classroom for hands-on learning and will be utilized by several classes of students per year. High school teachers and Edible Schoolyard educators will integrate food systems concepts into the school’s core curriculum and students will grow healthy, organic produce for the school lunch program. Food preparation and cooking classes will be offered to compliment the food growing efforts. Sixty students are currently signed up to attend these new classes, and every effort is being made to secure the funds necessary to make this project a reality.<br />
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Total Project Costs:<br />
Greenhouse Construction $56,600<br />
minus funds raised to date:<br />
C.O.R.E. Grant -$7,000<br />
Fat City Farmers & Partners -$18,000<br />
Total outstanding construction cost $31,600<br />
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Outdoor Garden & Orchard Installation $27,000<br />
Agricultural Education Program (Operational expenses) per month $ 5,300 x 9 months $47,700<br />
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GRAND?TOTAL? $106,300<br />
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Amount of Funding Requested: $69,200<br />
This funding amount covers initial costs for materials, construction and the first 2 months of operational expenses. Many local volunteer service and non-profit organizations are working to raise funds and grants have been written to provide ongoing operational funding for the project. $25,000 has been raised to date by our partner organizations and can be used as matching funds for the grant.<br />
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Related Project Information & links:<br />
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Community Food Initiative Portal: http://communityfoodinitiative.org<br />
A portal site that includes all the active school garden projects in our area<br />
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Project blog link: http://rfhsgreenhouse.ning.com<br />
The project blog includes a site overview, preliminary greenhouse design and site plan<br />
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CSA Farm School blog: http://csafarmschool.ning.com<br />
A school to train new CSA?Farmers - located at the Roaring Fork High SchoolBrianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01577009123854323001noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6818479189297669496.post-48919450819690303412009-08-24T20:24:00.000-07:002010-05-27T09:07:03.938-07:00Fundraising Status & Project PlanWith the latest news of a donation from C.O.R.E. for $7,000 and a donation of $2,500 from Wendy Aresty, our funding level is at $25,000 of the $56,600 we need to complete the greenhouse. Further, taking into account the approximately $5,000 of in-kind donations promised by the Rotary Club members, we could say we are halfway to our goal.<br />
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We will have a conference call 1:00 - 1:45 Tuesday Aug. 25 (see instructions @ right sidebar), to discuss “where we go from here”:<br />
CURRICULUM W/O GREENHOUSE: Do we help Hadley teach his Ag curriculum without the greenhouse? Do we erect a cheap hoophouse, and get at least some growing time before winter?<br />
WAIT FOR C.O.R.E.’s GRANT CYCLE? Do we wait for C.O.R.E.’s next large grant cycle in January? Given their policy of being no more than a 30% partner, we will need to raise significant other money anyway, so we should ramp up our efforts now;<br />
BUILD THE GREENHOUSE PIECEMEAL: If we can nail down specific donations for materials, labor and equipment from Rotary Club members, we could get the climate battery and foundation built now, and as we raise the funds to buy and install the greenhouse, we get it built when we can, even if it’s winter, and only if the School Board will allow.<br />
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I think a good goal set from this point would be:<br />
1 Help Hadley teach his classes, however he and Jerome decide it should be done;<br />
2 Get community help to build the climate battery and foundation for the dome;<br />
3 Keep the fundraising efforts going full speed, order the dome by early October and install it by mid November;<br />
4 Identify and obtain materials for students to build the planting beds, aquaculture tanks and trellis once the dome is finished;<br />
5 With a successful erection of the greenhouse before the New Year, our grant application to C.O.R.E. in January will have momentum, and get help with the Garden.<br />
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The fundraising for each of the three parts of the program should be done as follows (assuming a max. C.O.R.E. contribution of 25% in January):<br />
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Greenhouse Construction: $56,600 Total:<br />
Max. C.O.R.E. Contribution: $7,000<br />
Fat City Farmers & partners: $49,600 (we are just at $18,000 now)<br />
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Garden Construction: $27,000 Total:<br />
Max. C.O.R.E. Contribution: $6,750<br />
Fat City Farmers & partners: $20,250<br />
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Agricultural Education Program: $5,300 per month until the School has it's program integrated into its science curriculum, and the CSA Farm School is financially independent.<br />
Max. C.O.R.E. Contribution: $1,325<br />
Fat City Farmers & partners: $3.975Michael Thompsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13842072221798462123noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6818479189297669496.post-29103695087071535262009-05-08T11:03:00.001-07:002010-05-27T09:07:31.258-07:00Proposal Documents for Download<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhkjxQqtq6Pg4YOBwL37hbL1bXipBPnJZMIHfvSvyCCG28BWFw_pcC3JI3f5ITKsj2mXJGG4c7PThEBtMVBFQKMDCd1ZLBmiDQyTGcZkF0OdBFL4O-RjKWGd4zv9QZ_gBbXKtiIB0UHrz9p/s1600-h/RFHSdome-SEgreenhouse.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5333515976504574770" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhkjxQqtq6Pg4YOBwL37hbL1bXipBPnJZMIHfvSvyCCG28BWFw_pcC3JI3f5ITKsj2mXJGG4c7PThEBtMVBFQKMDCd1ZLBmiDQyTGcZkF0OdBFL4O-RjKWGd4zv9QZ_gBbXKtiIB0UHrz9p/s320/RFHSdome-SEgreenhouse.jpg" style="cursor: hand; float: right; height: 209px; margin: 0px 0px 10px 10px; width: 320px;" /></a><br />
<div>For the Proposal Document (prints on 8.5x11 size paper), download by <a href="http://www.box.net/shared/3mmg4tyftf"><span style="color: #006600;">CLICKING HERE.</span></a></div>For the Greenhouse Dome Images file (prints on 11x17 size paper), , download by <a href="http://www.box.net/shared/joba0v0o1z"><span style="color: #006600;">CLICKING HERE.</span></a>Michael Thompsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13842072221798462123noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6818479189297669496.post-21856107037559842222009-05-06T18:09:00.000-07:002010-05-27T09:06:32.034-07:00RE-1 School Board Meeting May 13 - Proposal Document<div align="left"><strong><span style="font-size: 130%;">Re: Garden, Greenhouse at RFHS</span></strong><u><strong>Who we are:</strong></u>Central Rocky Mountain Permaculture Institute, running a CSA Farm School, with a network of supporting organizations, and a mission to “grow farmers” for an emerging local food culture and economy. We will briefly introduce our partner organizations, Fat City Farms, C.O.R.E., the Basalt Thrift Store, and Slow Food Roaring Fork, and thank the School Board for this meeting, and for their questions, after.<br />
<u><strong>Why we are before you:</strong></u>We are part of a growing national movement to improve our food supply in healthfulness, safety, and security, as well as to reduce the food industry’s “carbon footprint” by creating local food production and distribution networks. We are very fortunate in the Roaring Fork Valley, to have a history of farming and ranching, as well as excellent present-day instructors, experienced with growing food in this climate: Jerome Osentowski, Ken Kuhns, Jennifer Craig, and others. Some of the essential “glue” that binds all these efforts together is fundamental: improving the healthfulness of food for our children, in their school lunch. Giving them the understanding and the skills to grow their own food, and to learn how to grow it in ways that are healthy for the eater, as well as for the land, is “priceless”.<br />
<u><strong>What we propose:</strong></u><br />
<a name='more'></a>A partnership with RE-1 to provide the land and water at RFHS, for us to build a greenhouse and a fenced-in garden area, as a Carbondale Center for our CSA Farm School operations, and for the RE-1 School District’s emerging agricultural curricula. Our CSA Farm School will use garden and greenhouse facilities from early May through September (5 months) each year. Some of our Farm School instructors and graduating students will be available to assist your Teachers, as they prepare and run their own classes, from October through April (7 months) each year. We will use September to wind-down our operations, and to give your Teachers and their Students “tours” to orient them for their school year in the greenhouse. We will also be able to involve the classes in outdoor harvesting work during September and October, when they can reap some of our Summer crops for their cafeteria. We will also engage with your Teachers and Students in the Spring, as we come in to help plant the outdoor gardens in April, and take over for our CSA Farm School operations in May.<br />
<u><strong>How we will accomplish this goal:</strong></u>· Fundraising efforts already underway, for private and foundation grants, for the design and construction, including the 2009 5 Point Film Festival, CORE, Brady Foundation and Cleveland Foundation donations;<br />
· Greenhouse Dome, diameter 42-feet, with multi-wall polycarbonate greenhouse covering, vent panels and ventilating fans, controls, backup heating, aquaculture tanks, raised planting beds, potable water wash sink and irrigation systems, purchased with outside funding. We will place this structure outside the kitchen.<br />
· Outdoor Garden fencing, terracing, irrigation, tool storage shed, soil, mulch, and annual and perennial plants, purchased with outside funding, and a confirmation from the Town of Carbondale, of ample water resources for the garden project;<br />
· Construction and assembly of the greenhouse and garden area will be accomplished largely by volunteers, guided by CSA Farm School instructors and students, who will be working continuously through the Summer on it. If private funds are available in sufficient amounts, we will provide paid labor to accelerate the one-time construction process.<br />
· Provide a Greenhouse Manager to “check in” frequently with RFHS Teachers, regarding maintenance of greenhouse climate control systems, backup heating, etc. As the RFHS curricula develop and Teachers gain experience, this position may revert to “on-call” status.<br />
· CRMPI will provide complete liability insurance for property and participants in our CSA Farm School program during the Summer season, and will annually provide an insurance certificate, naming the Roaring Fork School District as additionally insured for CSA Farm School Summer operations.</div><div align="left">· Complete communication, review and periodic inspection by Colorado Health Dept. inspector, for all agricultural operations on the site.<br />
· Ongoing maintenance of greenhouse and garden areas, complete with replacement of damaged components and plants, as necessary.<br />
<u><strong>What we will need from the RE-1 School District:</strong></u>· A letter of support for this project;<br />
· Co-sponsorship of an agreement, with a termination clause, to lease the greenhouse and garden areas to CRMPI, for its CSA Farm School, with all conditions detailed;<br />
· Some help with security, to focus one or two security cameras on the greenhouse and garden areas, to help deter, or to determine identity of vandals, if possible. We would rather deal with some sort of vandalism loss, than to create a prison-like atmosphere for our school farm.<br />
· Access to land, irrigation water for the garden and potable water for the greenhouse. We will seek donation of a solar photovoltaic electric system for ventilation and heat storage fans, with batteries. We may request an electric-grid connection from the School, and use the Solar PV to sell electricity back through the meter, when the sun is shining.<br />
· Insurance protection of RFHS students and other local public and private school participants, during their use of the facilities during Autumn, Winter and Spring seasons, by RE-1 School District insurance, already in place.<br />
<u><strong>What opportunities will this present to RE-1 students and their community?</strong></u>· Real, homegrown food for lunch! “I grew this!”<br />
· Farming curriculum, uniting science, sociology, zoology, civic studies, language, art, into FOOD. Priceless!<br />
· Extracurricular learning through CSA Farm School, Summer programs, internships, lifelong education.<br />
· Creating a culture of locally made food, will help generate the evolving “eco-science” of inhabiting this place, in a way that is healthy for the land, as well as for the people. This is exactly the science we need now, and always.<br />
· Creating a culture of locally made food will keep a major economic resource re-circulating in the local community, re-generating local prosperity, supporting schools, families, businesses. We will begin building this economy together, starting with our schools.<br />
We hope everyone is enthusiastically interested in this partnership and project. We are already underway, helping create a small geodesic dome greenhouse at Yampah Mountain High School, scheduled to be built in April. We intend to help all the willing schools in the Roaring Fork Valley to enter this emerging curriculum, with greenhouses and gardens wherever possible. We hope to reach our goal of an agricultural facility at each of the Valley’s public and private elementary and secondary schools, within the next half-decade.<br />
<strong><u><span style="font-size: 130%;">LINKS:</span></u></strong></div><strong>Roaring Fork High School Gardens:</strong><a href="http://rfhs-greenhouse.blogspot.com/"><span style="color: #6600cc;">http://rfhs-greenhouse.blogspot.com/</span></a><br />
<strong>CSA Farm School Video Trailer:</strong><br />
<a href="http://www.fatcityfarms.org/video/FPfinal.html"><span style="color: #6600cc;">http://www.fatcityfarms.org/video/FPfinal.html</span></a><br />
<strong>Food – The Movie (Spring 2009) Trailer:</strong><br />
<a href="http://www.freshthemovie.com/"><span style="color: #6600cc;">http://www.freshthemovie.com/</span></a><br />
<strong>Yampah Mtn. High School Greenhouse:</strong><br />
<a href="http://yampahgreenhouse.blogspot.com/"><span style="color: #6600cc;">http://yampahgreenhouse.blogspot.com/</span></a><br />
<strong>Central Rocky Mountain Permaculture Institute:</strong><a href="http://www.crmpi.org/"><span style="color: #6600cc;">http://www.crmpi.org/</span></a><br />
<strong>Fat City Farms, Inc.:</strong><a href="http://www.fatcityfarms.org/"><span style="color: #6600cc;">http://www.fatcityfarms.org/</span></a><br />
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To download a printable copy of this Proposal Document, <a href="http://www.box.net/shared/6y7s25its2"><span style="color: #6600cc;">CLICK HERE</span></a>.Michael Thompsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13842072221798462123noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6818479189297669496.post-80050041170411189272009-05-03T09:33:00.000-07:002009-05-07T08:24:56.865-07:005 Point Film Festival - for the RFHS Greenhouse Project!This Thursday evening, May 7, the 2nd annual <a href="http://www.5pointfilm.org/"><span style="color:#006600;">5-Point Film Festival</span></a> will open in Carbondale, running through Sunday, May 10. Festival organizers are featuring our School Greenhouses, and are donating a portion of festival proceeds to the <a href="http://rfhs-greenhouse.blogspot.com/"><span style="color:#006600;">Roaring Fork High School Greenhouse & Gardens</span></a> project. This event has great potential to inspire the Carbondale community, as well as the whole Valley, to help with our school greenhouses. We already have one success underway, in the <a href="http://yampahgreenhouse.blogspot.com/"><span style="color:#006600;">Yampah Mtn. HS Greenhouse</span></a> dome, featured this past week in the <a href="http://www.postindependent.com/article/20090427/VALLEYNEWS/904269973&parentprofile=search"><span style="color:#006600;">Glenwood Post Independent</span></a>.<br />We have agreed to provide refreshments for the four days of the festival, in the form of baked goods, such as cookies, brownies, fruit bars, etc. Estimated quantity needed: 700 – 900 items. They don’t need to be individually wrapped, a wrapped plate of cookies will be fine. So, if each baker made 40 pieces, we would need to have 20 bakers; 80 pieces per baker = 10 bakers, etc. I am freezing 30 oatmeal-plum bars today, and will make more Monday evening. If you can help, please reply to this email to let me know what you can provide. We will post drop-off instructions for midday this Thursday, May 7, on the <a href="http://rfhs-greenhouse.blogspot.com/2009/05/5-point-film-festival-for-rfhs.html"><span style="color:#006600;">RFHS Greenhouse blog</span></a><br />Danny Brown and Fat City Farms have teamed up to produce a film trailer about the School Greenhouses. You can preview a draft of the trailer: <a href="http://www.fatcityfarms.org/video/1.html"><span style="color:#006600;">http://www.fatcityfarms.org/video/1.html</span></a><br />We hope everyone agrees this is a wonderful opportunity for all the food groups in the Valley to shine, and to inspire many others to join the work we are doing.<br />Thank you SO MUCH for your help, and your wonderful baking skills!<br />Michael Thompson<br /><a href="http://www.fatcityfarms.org/"><span style="color:#006600;">www.fatcityfarms.org</span></a><br />'growing farmers'<br />970-274-0634<br /><br />Drop Off Instructions: <a href="http://www.eco-goddess.com/"><span style="color:#006600;">Eco Goddess Edibles</span></a> owner Lisa Ruoff has two shelves in her refrigerator to store our baked items for the weekend. Her shop is at 335 Main Street in Carbondale, and her phone number is 963-7316.Michael Thompsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13842072221798462123noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6818479189297669496.post-15452217210396485862009-04-22T11:44:00.000-07:002009-04-22T11:54:49.902-07:00RFHS Greenhouse Alternate: Growing Dome 42' dia.Our reason for suggesting a Dome Greenhouse as an alternate to the earlier greenhouse design, is that a 42-foot diameter dome will be large enough to hold a good-sized class, it will be brand new, far more energy efficient, half the size and half the price of retrofitting the recycled greenhouse from the City of Glenwood Springs. If we experience less than our hoped-for community support for this project, we may be able to afford the dome, and we can always add another greenhouse, if the program receives more school support than we expect.<br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLGpZe7jlSlN5nHO-ppT4SyeZ3XnwAsQzYoMi3C9iLAM7B7m7eJnWVPp7via0MikSFgiBWKA2qcD-w6qc4GvsPrOhaA_ptxr91HbNy2LzC8bYkIlquh8UbezJUAMUXOUmM23AYtSg9YL71/s1600-h/RFHSdome-SEhillside.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5327589248558386274" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 209px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLGpZe7jlSlN5nHO-ppT4SyeZ3XnwAsQzYoMi3C9iLAM7B7m7eJnWVPp7via0MikSFgiBWKA2qcD-w6qc4GvsPrOhaA_ptxr91HbNy2LzC8bYkIlquh8UbezJUAMUXOUmM23AYtSg9YL71/s320/RFHSdome-SEhillside.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYmU_Ge3dScKUrICWMPXS5xZ62FgLQPyF9_fSXfqWHLp1AHhjkFcyKhOI9lnNCoSbcDbhfg2ALe4JQTGdxF3YILiykx-9QOyNm3cGLyjnLqXfCI5YVuqVNJUcqljcljZBtKEkWaDNlLIED/s1600-h/RFHSdome-SitePlan.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5327589306112120834" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 209px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYmU_Ge3dScKUrICWMPXS5xZ62FgLQPyF9_fSXfqWHLp1AHhjkFcyKhOI9lnNCoSbcDbhfg2ALe4JQTGdxF3YILiykx-9QOyNm3cGLyjnLqXfCI5YVuqVNJUcqljcljZBtKEkWaDNlLIED/s320/RFHSdome-SitePlan.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><div><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><div><div><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjxiEbt1O9EiPPKRmEMr8O0idoRyg3psH30ehVxtwFoAK_sKotMrgwGnocNWKI8DS4NH-XRq65ELH81SUHiwzHCDN1O3QAceeJ2hWM5ZZuQtdPtdy-RlKBBKXCwXfTUHCZiuamJseV6-yuc/s1600-h/RFHSdome-SEgreenhouse.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5327588815316081330" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 209px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjxiEbt1O9EiPPKRmEMr8O0idoRyg3psH30ehVxtwFoAK_sKotMrgwGnocNWKI8DS4NH-XRq65ELH81SUHiwzHCDN1O3QAceeJ2hWM5ZZuQtdPtdy-RlKBBKXCwXfTUHCZiuamJseV6-yuc/s320/RFHSdome-SEgreenhouse.jpg" border="0" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2j8QtNYsme8qWluvdTEkOJNVdrKaXN68myziM4hScioVLxtimItEV_bdzH-HHiJIbcJUb_aY711HcVYC0O93ORRyM1vOolMoaEPrBJtTpcDicOrQvK2sJAQbe7pimHl0uYbBfFTC9pc-d/s1600-h/RFHSdome-SEschool.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5327589137158242066" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 209px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2j8QtNYsme8qWluvdTEkOJNVdrKaXN68myziM4hScioVLxtimItEV_bdzH-HHiJIbcJUb_aY711HcVYC0O93ORRyM1vOolMoaEPrBJtTpcDicOrQvK2sJAQbe7pimHl0uYbBfFTC9pc-d/s320/RFHSdome-SEschool.jpg" border="0" /></a></div></div></div></div></div></div>Michael Thompsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13842072221798462123noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6818479189297669496.post-14344268734585584342009-04-13T21:02:00.000-07:002010-05-27T09:08:13.566-07:00Memorandum of Understanding - DraftThe Central Rocky Mountain Permaculture Institute (CRMPI) enters into an Agreement with the RE-1 School District, to build a Greenhouse and a 1.5 acre fenced Garden at the Roaring Fork High School in Carbondale, CO.<br />
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CRMPI and its non-profit partners C.O.R.E., Fat City Farms, Inc., the Basalt Thrift Store and others, will raise the funds necessary to build the greenhouse and gardens, and will organize the contractors and volunteers to construct it during the summer of 2009. CRMPI and its partners will use these facilities for their CSA Farm School program, from May through September each year, starting in 2010, and will train RFHS teachers in the use and maintenance of the facilities, on an ongoing basis, as needed. The 1.5 acre garden will be surrounded by an 8-foot deer fence with gates at the NE corner, for access via the fire lane. The greenhouse will contain a minimum of 1,300 SF in floor area, and will be no taller than 20-feet above the surrounding grade.<br />
CRMPI will also provide:<br />
<a name='more'></a>1> Liability insurance to cover any injuries to CSA Farm School students during their program each year, as well as insurance against damage to the facilities;<br />
2> A Greenhouse Manager to meet with RFHS teachers for 1/2 day per week during the RFHS school year, from September through May, to review greenhouse procedures, maintenance and to assist the teachers with organic and permaculture principals for healthy and sustainable food growing;<br />
3> Design the greenhouse and gardens so their locations and relationship with surrounding land uses is in full compliance with Fire Access and Life Safety codes governing the RE-1 property;<br />
4> Determine Colorado State Health requirements for growing and serving food in the school cafeteria and for establishing and maintaining an organic composting process, set up procedures for maintaining the required health standards, and communicate these procedures clearly to the RFHS teachers;<br />
5> Maintenance and Upkeep of the gardens and greenhouse, in good working condition, for as long as this Agreement is in effect;<br />
6> Automatic Solar Lighting around the greenhouse for security;<br />
7> Maintenance of the grounds for a 30-foot perimter around the 1.5-acre gardens;<br />
8> A lease to the RFHS, for its use of the facilities, for $1.00 per year.<br />
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RE-1 School District will provide:<br />
a> Access to Irrigation Water for the 1.5-acre garden area;<br />
b> Access to potable water for the greenhouse;<br />
c> Security camera in the school security system, trained on the greenhouse;<br />
d> Access to the greenhouse and the gardens via the Fire Lane;<br />
e> Parking at RE-1 selected locations for CSA Farm School Students during their program;<br />
f> Liability Insurance for injuries to RFHS teachers and students whenever they are using these facilities;<br />
g> A lease to CRMPI for the use of the land and water, for $1.00 per year.<br />
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CRMPI and RE-1 further agree that if either party to this Agreement notifies the other party in writing that they wish to terminate this Agreement, one of the following will occur:<br />
1> CRMPI will remove the greenhouse and garden fencingn the land to it's former state, or:<br />
2> CRMPI will sell to the RE-1 School District the greenhouse and gardens facilities, for $1.00.<br />
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Please add any comments or questions in the comments link at the bottom of this post. We will hold a meeting with Judy Haptonstall and RE-1 Staff on Thursday afternoon, April 16 at 4:00 at the RE-w School District Offices in Glenwood Springs, to review this MOU and all subsequent issues raised, in hopes of submitting a final draft of the MOU for the School Board meeting on Wednesday, April 22.Michael Thompsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13842072221798462123noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6818479189297669496.post-54548435458041567222009-04-06T10:00:00.001-07:002009-04-22T11:55:40.152-07:00RFHS Hillside Garden - CO. Health Dept. reply<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEheR4Pa7X1TB2bP_vH1mWGksW0GzhRoGIOwrzqeXKDLPGFPPiwOFdX4ClHtH908EwKwAsIpvosyjzdzUfBwUxrGat4UzrN3CMa6P9p_NEYS4CjfDfalKONW49558ejJ4A2SpiREtcDVvufj/s1600-h/RFHSgardenSite.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5321636339669749634" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 209px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEheR4Pa7X1TB2bP_vH1mWGksW0GzhRoGIOwrzqeXKDLPGFPPiwOFdX4ClHtH908EwKwAsIpvosyjzdzUfBwUxrGat4UzrN3CMa6P9p_NEYS4CjfDfalKONW49558ejJ4A2SpiREtcDVvufj/s320/RFHSgardenSite.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><div>Hillside Garden area:<br />65,080 SF, or 1.5 ac.<br /><br />Perimeter Fence:<br />8' tall deer fence, 1,200 LF<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0eNiH55xpkdQuqL2KoNMovhyKVFtd9oHvW4N2J2RzQVQZMq_Y-Uckxhj03JRkDazppBL8yhhG9Oa2eAhu_Hl9PtRs3wrJKPlQqwNXcXT91RYXLnoXxmQo5NeTpzkoa2MSYflrE737YO2-/s1600-h/RFHSgardenSite.jpg"></a><br /><br /><div>Jerome,</div><div></div><div>Please allow this message to serve as a response to your recent inquiry about the proposed greenhouse facility for Roaring Fork High School to be used for educational purposes as well as growing organic crops to be harvested for use in the school kitchen. Neither the Colorado Retail Food Establishment Rules and Regulations or the Rules and Regulations Governing Schools in the State of Colorado would preclude this type of endeavor either as a learning opportunity for the students or as a source of produce for the retail food operation.<br />The Colorado Retail Food Establishment Rules and Regulations do require that all foods come from an approved source and does recognize produce grown on site as approved. The produce is considered to be approved provided that only approved fertilizers, pesticides, herbicides or insecticides are used when growing the produce. My understanding of the proposed operation is that is would be completely organic and as a result there should not be a concern regarding chemicals. All produce grown would have to be washed in potable water after harvest and prior to consumption either in the greenhouse or in the school kitchen itself. Based on the information you provided, I understand that the local irrigation water will be used for growing the produce and the City of Carbondale municipal supply will be used for washing both in Th greenhouse and in the school as appropriate.<br />Provided these parameters, as previously discussed, are followed we would not have objection to the proposed venture for the school.<br />It is also my understanding that there is interest in implementing a composting program for the kitchen waste. Our concern would be that all food wastes to be composted are stored in such a manner as to prevent contamination of other foods, food contact surfaces, or serve as insect or rodent attractants. While this is an area of expertise for the Consumer Protection Division here at CDPHE, we would like to suggest the following individuals as potential resources for information, guidance and possibly training for establishing a composting program.<br />Possible contacts are:</div><div>Roger Doak, CDPHE HMWMD: Solid Waste 303-692-3437<br /><a href="mailto:roger.doak@state.co.us">roger.doak@state.co.us</a><br />Kathy C. Doesken at CSU(Colorado State University)<br />907-484-0251<br />Adriane L. Elliot at CSU 970-491-6984<br /><br />If you have additional questions or need additional resource information, please feel free to contact me again.<br />Regards,<br />Susan<br />Susan ParachiniRetail Food Program ManagerConsumer Protection DivisionColorado Department of Public Health & EnvironmentCPD-GS-B24300 Cherry Creek Drive SouthDenver, Colorado 80246-1530Phone: 303-692-3646/FAX: 303-753-6809<a href="mailto:susan.parachini@state.co.us">susan.parachini@state.co.us</a></div></div>Michael Thompsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13842072221798462123noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6818479189297669496.post-87589232716124793712009-04-05T19:06:00.000-07:002009-04-05T19:07:58.236-07:00RFHS Greenhouse - Design Concept<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTvttQ3x8H4ljAYndkqCK87de5yOomQOwRhdEWOzK3d4Xt3HgcMx_cpdBSSbG7A1ItwzPcgVs_HZ1HYXjZ17Xg1fSy5zjfmVv5q7STvLlgSHDXKR-xIdb4H55o-AZjoadmSRVzHQlslfDI/s1600-h/RFHSgreenhouseSite.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5321394355739111634" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 214px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTvttQ3x8H4ljAYndkqCK87de5yOomQOwRhdEWOzK3d4Xt3HgcMx_cpdBSSbG7A1ItwzPcgVs_HZ1HYXjZ17Xg1fSy5zjfmVv5q7STvLlgSHDXKR-xIdb4H55o-AZjoadmSRVzHQlslfDI/s320/RFHSgreenhouseSite.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCKqF6P2JmJsCQIVsOEUpCGeg5DWwWy6_ydigcnrD1JZhRSiLBSEXCe4O9VQZ17KlJ07DexOFRpzI0Z6D1Wx84hPYgYjyYcV5KvNtGvU52VIBhCj1l5Tuazv8fS1UlzkqAsxnodf4YMHUd/s1600-h/RFHSgreenhouse.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5321394272117114338" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 214px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCKqF6P2JmJsCQIVsOEUpCGeg5DWwWy6_ydigcnrD1JZhRSiLBSEXCe4O9VQZ17KlJ07DexOFRpzI0Z6D1Wx84hPYgYjyYcV5KvNtGvU52VIBhCj1l5Tuazv8fS1UlzkqAsxnodf4YMHUd/s320/RFHSgreenhouse.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><div></div></div>Michael Thompsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13842072221798462123noreply@blogger.com0