Food and Waste Management

Cornell Sustainability Hub
Sustainable Foods Group
Meeting Minutes: September 6, 2006

1. Fall Harvest Festival
1. All food will be from NY state, and a lot of it will be local (within 50 miles).
2. Need pamphlets, posters, table stuff by 9/15 (That’s Friday!)
3. There should be information there about the Farmers’ Market
4. A Speaker for dinner would be awesome. How can we get ~ $5000?
5. More info: Miriam @ mgg22
6. We definitely need to advertise on West, and Collegetown for the upperclassmen.
2. Farm To College Working Group
1. More info: Jen @ jmb326
2. Trying to book Francis Lapay
3. New World Agriculture and Ecology Group (NWAEG)
1. More info: Jen @ jmb326
2. http://sao.cornell.edu/SO/search.php?igroup=77&year=organizations
4. Farmers’ Market
1. Bring the Farmers’ Market to Cornell
2. Concern for students purchasing enough for the venture to be profitabl
3. Who do we need to contact to make this happen?
4. T-Cat Bus to Farmer’s Marke
5. Cornell-sponsored trips to shopping malls are common. How are these organized?
5. Student Organic Farming
1. Expanding
2. Increase Marketing
6. Composting
1. Does Cornell compost already? Who can we contact?
2. Not only Composting Left-overs, but also taking food to local food banks
3. Pre-consumer/Post-consumer composting
7. University Level Program for Farmer-Infrastructure (Chan – Stick & Stone)
1. Greenstar already has a similar program to this.
2. The idea is that Cornell can help fund local farming ventures in exchange for farm produce.
8. Nutrition: Work with Gannett to emphasize the importance of fresh foods
9. Have a scale by the trash-bins at Dining Halls
10. Carry-a-cup-campaign

People in Attendance

Stacey Ng, syn3

Sean Williamson, srw46

Miriam Golwer, mgg22

Hannah Shayler, has34

Joowon Ahn, ja257

Dana Shapiro, dls79

Katie Alexander, kba5

Jennifer Gardern, jmb326

Brad Lipovsky, bpl24

Kimberley D. C. Schroder, kds29

Tamar Sharabi, tms43

notes by bpl24