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Dan Marzu spoke about rain barrels and compost barrels. |
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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