Wednesday, May 15, 2013

Barrel's of Fun!

At the first open meeting of Live Sustainable Lincoln Co we had an attendance of thirty people! We thought that was outstanding. Betty Ann Tubbin opened with a short business meeting. Followed by a twenty minute slide presentation by Dan Marzu about composting barrels and rain barrels. Following his presentation Amanda Kostman led us through a brain storming session to find out what the members of the group are interested in. You will find the results below.

We are off to a great start! Won't you join us? For more information contact Dan Marzu or Amanda Kostman at: 715-539-1072.

Dan Marzu spoke about rain barrels and compost barrels.
Live Sustainable, Lincoln County
Results of Brainstorming activity at 5-14-13 Meeting
and additional ideas from others submitted.

Gardening
• Gardens – how to best utilize space
• Vertical gardens
• Rock gardens
• How to do things cheaply
• Where to buy supplies
• Perennial sharing or Sale
• How to control bugs naturally
• “Farmscaping” – Grow food not lawns
• Permaculture – learn about it
• Growing worms and night crawlers
• Lake shore plants
• Buffer zones for water runoff
• What kind of cucumbers grow best in
Wisconsin
• Herb gardening
• Raised bed gardening
• Straw bale gardening – best thing to plant in
straw bales
• Strategies for garden diseases
o Peas
o Tomatoes
• Care of apple trees
• Care of rhubarb plants
• Growing blueberries and black berries
• Growing blueberries and raspberries
• Mulch
• Using beneficial insects
• Aquaculture
• How to build a greenhouse and where to
get the plastics that are strong enough
• Discuss how to grow indoors
• Container gardens
• how much a plot of land is at the
Community Garden? I think we should let
people know that the community garden is
available for those who want to garden but
don't have enough room to plant.
• gardening ideas

Composting
• How high in what nutrients can you get
your compost to be?
• Composting - building a compost barrel
• Composting
• How to keep it from smelling so much

Sustainable Building / Energy
• Making solar panels
• Solar panels
• Off “the grid” living
• Alternatives to treated lumber
• Big time/large/ milking parlors 1000+ cattle
– methane gas
• Alternative energy (residential use)
o Heating water
o Solar
o Wind
• Reduce energy use
• Wind and solar energy ideas
• Ways to save energy (household)
• Can we set us an “architectural” exchange
bank – so if people remove doors someone
else can adapt or use them?
• Portable coops with runs
• Sustainable energy

Food Preservation

• Beginning canning
• How to cook garden veggies
• Dehydrating fruits and vegetables
• Wine making
• Yogurt making
• How to preserve green and red peppers
• Canning – making jar baby food
• Food preservation: fermented food like
Kimchi
• Everything Canning (night classes or
weekends)
• Drying Food (dehydrating)
• Making jams / sauces
• Food preservation

Water Conservation
• Grey water reuse
• Large water systems – cisterns, etc. from
rain water Potable
• Making city water safer/less “toxic” – if you
filter you water, how do we properly
dispose of the filters (composting?) or reuse
somehow?
• Class on how to build a rain barrel
• recycle water

Others
• Encourage food stores to use the spoiled
vegetables for compost
• Get chickens legal in City of Merrill
• raising animals for food (and find out if it is
legal to have chickens, small pigs, ect in
town
• Community gardens (2)
• How to decrease the garbage we produce?
• Reduce, reuse, recycle ideas
• Reuse / resign clothing
• Educate – global warming is not anymore a
matter of opinion
o Reduce!!
o Reuse
o Recycle
• Activism:
o Use public space to grow food
o Change laws that farmers can sell
raw milk
o Stop selling bottled water
o A public kitchen with teachers
where people can preserve food.
• Card and spin wool
• Wild editable food (2)
• Natural cleaners and insecticides
• Cleaning w/o danger of chemicals
• Shrub and tree trimming
• Bee keeping
• Bee hive in bear country
• Work with county board to put solar panels
on public buildings
• Work with county board to work on
recycling laws for people who live in the
country
• Becoming an eco-community
• Low energy transportation
• Livestock care – from raising the young to
butchering or old age
• Alternative Fencing Ideas
• Marketing – home grown crops
• Educate about saving
• Educate and encourage organic methods

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