Location: Old Courthouse Meeting Room
Attendance: 19 of which 3 were youth
Minutes: Due to a speakers time restrictions the meeting was a bit backwards starting with:
- Info Lecture by JoEllen Parent about our local Lexington and Rockbridge Farmers Markets.
-Take note of the Give Away table for giving away of itmes give and take freely.
- Stacey presented good news as we are very close to having a club bank account!
-Secretarys report was read by Jesse and announcement made about Lending List. Please get info in about items you want to have added to this list for it to be compiled onto one!
-Cookbook project update from Kim- would like to form a committee for this as it seems alot of work for just one person to decide on things like design, fund raising, sales, marketing, layout, types of recipes and arrangements of recipes.
- Barbara spoke about survey results and scores with printout of explanations summarizing the most popular interests among the 6 that responded to survey in time. Results as follows listed as most interest to least interest per subject.
- Poultry- (1) Coup tour attendee (2) Hatching eggs (3) chicken healthcare (4)candleing eggs (5) co-op butchering (6)Poultry shows (7)coup tour volunteers
- Garden and Orchard (1) successful composting (2)insect profiles (3) fruit tree pruning (4) herbs for health (5) seed starting (6) gourds (7) Broom corn.
- Kitchen- (1) building & using solar dehydrator (2) pickling (3) how to make and use earthern ovens.
- Local Foods- (1) farmers Market
- Misc. Skills and Crafts (1) elementary woodworking (2) intro to green building (3) analyzing natural products (4) beekeeping (5) analyzing energy saving products (6) basket weaving (7) Making whatever.
- New Ideas - (1) canning (2) chicken breeds (3) raising earthworms for fertilizer
-Some discussion from Elizabeth for Pat about poultry chain and co-operative chick ordering.
- Kim- chat on Gardening getting seeds started, what to plant in March including beets, carrots, collards, mustards, potatoes, and radishes. Starting seeds demo in recycled containers such as pastic donut box or plastic salad box that can be used as a mini greenhouse when placed in sun. Passed out pea seeds to get started with.
- Elizabeths chat on finding and harvesting wild watercress, a natural antidote for curing scurvy and a high resource of vitamin c. Included was a recipe for watercress soup and we were well instructed how to wash to keep from getting the giardia bug!
- Chat from Hannah and Cheyanne about buying and hatching eggs from hatcheries and breeds comparing Barred Rocks to Domineckers telling differances by things like eggs, combs and body type.
- Brief Q&A with Dawn Paul.
Meeting Closed
-JEPC
Board Meeting Followed with some great plans for future meetings.
Friday, February 25, 2011
Meeting: January 20, 2011
Location: Studio 11
Attendance: 19
Minutes:
- Survey passed out.
- Request for volunteer to do press release news info etc. No one volunteered.
- Request for meetup site greeter volunteer, Kim Seroki has agreed to do this along with cookbook project.
-Coop tour - proposed to wait until next year, all agreed.
- Looking for speakers to talk at future meetings re: farmers market, beekeeping, 4-h poultry club, and workshops.
- Homestead gardening chat by Kim Seroki- starting out with the basics, soil preperation, using manure.
- Chat on poultry auctions and tailgaters club by Dawn Paul with demonstrations on using boxes for chicken transportation esp. for auctions.
-Lecture on making Maple Syrup with samples from Elizabeth Sauder.
- Chat by Hannah and Cheyanne all about chickens, highlights on how to use old crock pots as chicken waterer heaters, and some interesting facts about seabright chickens.
- Hannahs information came from Poultry Magazine June 2008 Vol. 3#1 Feb-March.
Meeting closed.
-JEPC
Attendance: 19
Minutes:
- Survey passed out.
- Request for volunteer to do press release news info etc. No one volunteered.
- Request for meetup site greeter volunteer, Kim Seroki has agreed to do this along with cookbook project.
-Coop tour - proposed to wait until next year, all agreed.
- Looking for speakers to talk at future meetings re: farmers market, beekeeping, 4-h poultry club, and workshops.
- Homestead gardening chat by Kim Seroki- starting out with the basics, soil preperation, using manure.
- Chat on poultry auctions and tailgaters club by Dawn Paul with demonstrations on using boxes for chicken transportation esp. for auctions.
-Lecture on making Maple Syrup with samples from Elizabeth Sauder.
- Chat by Hannah and Cheyanne all about chickens, highlights on how to use old crock pots as chicken waterer heaters, and some interesting facts about seabright chickens.
- Hannahs information came from Poultry Magazine June 2008 Vol. 3#1 Feb-March.
Meeting closed.
-JEPC
Christmas Party December 19, 2010
Location: Barbara Mullinixs Home
Attendance:
A very lovely time with great food, fun gifts ( Chinese exchange) and wonderful fellowship.
-JEPC
Attendance:
A very lovely time with great food, fun gifts ( Chinese exchange) and wonderful fellowship.
-JEPC
Meeting: November 18, 2010
Location: Va. Horse Center
Attendance: 14
Minutes:
- Co-Chairs announce themselves and present meetings organized and with agendas now!
- Re-Confirmed dues for membership at $10.00 annually and will be due at first of year.
-Will be processing again at Paul Pavilion for anyone that may have missed it the first time and is interested. All are welcome.
-Christmas Party plans announced will be held at Barbara Mullinixs home. Details to be announced.
- Anne Mcclung wrote chicken book called This, That and the others, coming out soon.
- Discussed its time for planting garlic. Make a hole in soil with thumb, stick in then cover with 1in. soil, followed by straw or mulch.
- Elizabeth Sauder presents wild foods and included a sample (very delicious) of persimmon pudding with recipie.
- Barbara Mullinix presents demonstration on wine making using notes from Mother Earth News No.41 Sept. 1976 Issue.
- Other food samples shared: Linda Davis brought Corn Bread made with hubbard squash (yummy also)
- Hannah Gould share fun facts about why roosters and hens make noise. "Crowing" and how. She also demonstrated her own talent of crowing.
- Pat Foreman gave brief update on legal chicken issues. She says the "ship is turning, and January is target date for legalizing chickens in Lexington." The new electives on city council seem like a positive force towards "Chicken Goodness" this year.
- Discussion on using lights in coops during winter to increase egg production.
- Hannah wonders how to sex americana chicks earlier than 3mo. of age. Pat says per Carl Mogenson of Natural Bridge Zoo Feel chicks pubic bone, if soft and wide apart its a Hen, If close and hard its a rooster.
- Nancy Wolfe asks why her chickens were roosting ok they started staying nights in Nesting boxes. Per Pat- could be mites- check underside of roosts, or maybe its just warmer in nesting boxes, check for drafts. Also sometimes if chickens are molting it makes it harder for them to fly up to roost.
Meeting Closed
-JEPC
Attendance: 14
Minutes:
- Co-Chairs announce themselves and present meetings organized and with agendas now!
- Re-Confirmed dues for membership at $10.00 annually and will be due at first of year.
-Will be processing again at Paul Pavilion for anyone that may have missed it the first time and is interested. All are welcome.
-Christmas Party plans announced will be held at Barbara Mullinixs home. Details to be announced.
- Anne Mcclung wrote chicken book called This, That and the others, coming out soon.
- Discussed its time for planting garlic. Make a hole in soil with thumb, stick in then cover with 1in. soil, followed by straw or mulch.
- Elizabeth Sauder presents wild foods and included a sample (very delicious) of persimmon pudding with recipie.
- Barbara Mullinix presents demonstration on wine making using notes from Mother Earth News No.41 Sept. 1976 Issue.
- Other food samples shared: Linda Davis brought Corn Bread made with hubbard squash (yummy also)
- Hannah Gould share fun facts about why roosters and hens make noise. "Crowing" and how. She also demonstrated her own talent of crowing.
- Pat Foreman gave brief update on legal chicken issues. She says the "ship is turning, and January is target date for legalizing chickens in Lexington." The new electives on city council seem like a positive force towards "Chicken Goodness" this year.
- Discussion on using lights in coops during winter to increase egg production.
- Hannah wonders how to sex americana chicks earlier than 3mo. of age. Pat says per Carl Mogenson of Natural Bridge Zoo Feel chicks pubic bone, if soft and wide apart its a Hen, If close and hard its a rooster.
- Nancy Wolfe asks why her chickens were roosting ok they started staying nights in Nesting boxes. Per Pat- could be mites- check underside of roosts, or maybe its just warmer in nesting boxes, check for drafts. Also sometimes if chickens are molting it makes it harder for them to fly up to roost.
Meeting Closed
-JEPC
Poultry Workshop Oct. 17, 2010
Location: "CHICKEN ALLEY" Paul Pavilion Natural Bridge Station, Va. Attendance: ?
Notes: Dawn opened up with a simple brief how to explanation with Pat adding in some extra thoughts and alternative processes. Then Hands on. Birds were processed and Dinner with lots of poultry and gardeing related conversations floating about were very much enjoyed.
-JEPC
Meeting: September 20, 2010
Location: 4-H extension office
Attendance: 12
Minutes:
-meeting dates changed to 3rd thursdays of every month due to other meeting conflicts, with official location to be announced.
-FINALLY CLUB OFFICERS ARE VOTED!!!!!
-President - Dawn Paul
-Programs Chairs- Barbara Mullinix and Elizabeth Sauder
-Treasurer- Stacey Gould
- Secretary- Jesse Conner
Officers are all present and accepting of thier new positions.
- Discussion on Humane ways to butcher with several different and interesting opinions.
- Discussion coop bedding, whats best to use? Woodchips v/s straw, lime dust and diamataceous earth usage.
- Discussion on Egg Expiration- how long to collect or use eggs before egg begins to rot or develop salmonella etc.
-Announcement of poultry processing workshop at Paul Pavilion on Oct 17th. with potluck dinner to follow. Non-members welcome with fee. Members free. HANDS ON!
-Interest expressed on having Andy M. to demonstrate workshop on sexing chicks.
Meeting closed.
-JEPC
Attendance: 12
Minutes:
-meeting dates changed to 3rd thursdays of every month due to other meeting conflicts, with official location to be announced.
-FINALLY CLUB OFFICERS ARE VOTED!!!!!
-President - Dawn Paul
-Programs Chairs- Barbara Mullinix and Elizabeth Sauder
-Treasurer- Stacey Gould
- Secretary- Jesse Conner
Officers are all present and accepting of thier new positions.
- Discussion on Humane ways to butcher with several different and interesting opinions.
- Discussion coop bedding, whats best to use? Woodchips v/s straw, lime dust and diamataceous earth usage.
- Discussion on Egg Expiration- how long to collect or use eggs before egg begins to rot or develop salmonella etc.
-Announcement of poultry processing workshop at Paul Pavilion on Oct 17th. with potluck dinner to follow. Non-members welcome with fee. Members free. HANDS ON!
-Interest expressed on having Andy M. to demonstrate workshop on sexing chicks.
Meeting closed.
-JEPC
FAIR TIME (JULY)
Ashley Conner's Buff Brahma Bantam Rooster "Chico" wins ribbons
At Rocbridge County Fair.
During the hot afternoon events Chico hangs out with the kids
and cools off at the fan.
This was published in the local papers!
Meeting: June 8, 2010
Location: 4-H extension Office
Attendance: 14
Poultry Guest: Edward (Brahma Rooster)
Minutes: Due to missing members, officers votes are post poned again until future meeting.
- Discussion on mission statement which election for Barbara Mullinix to put something together for club to go over and vote upon.
- Pat Foreman wonders about setting up coop tours and who is interested in participating and organizing. Further discussion to wait for club to become better established before setting more detailed plans in place for this.
-Discussed options for workshops and programs regarding poultry and gardening and establishing better coops.
-Pat Foreman announces Garden Chicks talk and dinner at the Red Hen Restaurant on 6/22 at 7pm. Reservations are required by calling 464-4401
-Pat Foreman did slideshow presentation on using chickens as garden helpers.
Meeting Closed
-JEPC
Attendance: 14
Poultry Guest: Edward (Brahma Rooster)
Minutes: Due to missing members, officers votes are post poned again until future meeting.
- Discussion on mission statement which election for Barbara Mullinix to put something together for club to go over and vote upon.
- Pat Foreman wonders about setting up coop tours and who is interested in participating and organizing. Further discussion to wait for club to become better established before setting more detailed plans in place for this.
-Discussed options for workshops and programs regarding poultry and gardening and establishing better coops.
-Pat Foreman announces Garden Chicks talk and dinner at the Red Hen Restaurant on 6/22 at 7pm. Reservations are required by calling 464-4401
-Pat Foreman did slideshow presentation on using chickens as garden helpers.
Meeting Closed
-JEPC
Meeting: May 11, 2010
Location: 4-H Extension Office
Attendance: 15 of which 4 were youth/children.
Poultry Guest: Oprah Henfry
Minutes:
-Voting for officers postponed again until a following meeting.
-Discussion on developing a mission statement for club and notes reguarding where we want to go with our meetings.
Talk about Club Visions, goals, and local food movement. Some ideas were put out on the floor discussed briefly, nothing set in stone and discussion was left on floor for future discussion.
- Pat Foreman did slideshow presentation on using chickens for therapy for exapmle Oprah Henfry visiting local nursing homes.
Meeting closed.
-JEPC
Attendance: 15 of which 4 were youth/children.
Poultry Guest: Oprah Henfry
Minutes:
-Voting for officers postponed again until a following meeting.
-Discussion on developing a mission statement for club and notes reguarding where we want to go with our meetings.
Talk about Club Visions, goals, and local food movement. Some ideas were put out on the floor discussed briefly, nothing set in stone and discussion was left on floor for future discussion.
- Pat Foreman did slideshow presentation on using chickens for therapy for exapmle Oprah Henfry visiting local nursing homes.
Meeting closed.
-JEPC
Meeting: April 13, 2010
Location: 4-H Extension Office
Attendance: ?
Minutes:
- Officer votes postponed until following meeting due to attendance(many officers nominated not availble to come to meeting).
-Discussions on club participation with the local farmers markets. No decisions made.
-Discussions on legalizing chickens in city limits, whats the next step? Planning Commission, Board of Supervisors and how we need to prepare to present our case.
- Plans for Fair July 21-24 Kids to bring show chickens for judging.
Pat Foreman shares slide show presentaion about gardening with help of chickens.
Meeting Closed
- JEPC
Attendance: ?
Minutes:
- Officer votes postponed until following meeting due to attendance(many officers nominated not availble to come to meeting).
-Discussions on club participation with the local farmers markets. No decisions made.
-Discussions on legalizing chickens in city limits, whats the next step? Planning Commission, Board of Supervisors and how we need to prepare to present our case.
- Plans for Fair July 21-24 Kids to bring show chickens for judging.
Pat Foreman shares slide show presentaion about gardening with help of chickens.
Meeting Closed
- JEPC
Meeting: March 9, 2010
Location: 4-H extension office
Attendance: ?
Minutes:
* Dues Set- Annual Membership $10.00
*Nominations for officers: Official vote set to take place at next meeting.
- President- Dawn Paul
-Vice Pres. not needed opt. for program chairs instead.
-Treasurer- Stacey Gould
-Secretary- Jesse Conner
*Announcements and Discussions:
- Randall Burky and the Chicken Whisperer are giving away baby chicks to club members on 3-18 & 19 to those interested.
-Club Goal- to legalize Chickens in city limits.
-Interest expressed in setting up tailgate poultry swaps at the Horse center mentioned.
-Discussion on arranging coop tours in our area. Idea announced and left on the table for future discussion.
- Meeting open for discussion on poultry related topics with Pat Foreman and closed shortly after.
-JEPC
Attendance: ?
Minutes:
* Dues Set- Annual Membership $10.00
*Nominations for officers: Official vote set to take place at next meeting.
- President- Dawn Paul
-Vice Pres. not needed opt. for program chairs instead.
-Treasurer- Stacey Gould
-Secretary- Jesse Conner
*Announcements and Discussions:
- Randall Burky and the Chicken Whisperer are giving away baby chicks to club members on 3-18 & 19 to those interested.
-Club Goal- to legalize Chickens in city limits.
-Interest expressed in setting up tailgate poultry swaps at the Horse center mentioned.
-Discussion on arranging coop tours in our area. Idea announced and left on the table for future discussion.
- Meeting open for discussion on poultry related topics with Pat Foreman and closed shortly after.
-JEPC
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