First of all THANKS!!! to everyone for all the great ideas and work you put in last night. Second here is Stephanie's email address [click here] for those committees who want to report to Stephanie. My email address is [click here]. Third...get your recipes on the website. THE FOOD AS USUAL WAS TERRIFIC!!!
Www.slowfoodsewashington.org [Note: the Blog is the best way to post a recipe.]
I'll make copies of the notes you created and get everyone on your committee a copy this week so if you had assignments written down you'll have them to work with. Please have one person on each committee "report" to Stephanie or I on your progress and any needs you have from the organization. This might be more formalized if need be with a conference call as event deadline approach. If you feel like your committee needs a conference call let me know so we can try to arrange those.
Stephanie and I will share all the information we get with the leadership team.
Here's what the calendar for 2009 tentatively looks like...
March 22 open potluck place to be determined
April is open ...may be we can get a local field trip in this month
May
Garden Tours - late May afternoon
Canning -asparagus May 9th
Bike/Wine Tour - May 16th or 17th
June
Canning - Cherries possibly June 25th
Begin the Film Fest at Battelle (we'll need some seed money here to rent films I bet)
tie some tastings to the film fest
Maybe a field trip in here?
July
Maybe we can get a long distance field trip in here
Film Fest continues
Maybe a cooking class in here?
August
Canning -green beans and salsa
Garden Tour - Mid August AM
Tastings
Film Fest continues hopefully in conjunction with Prosser Food and Wine event
September
In the Vineyard Dinner September 12th
Bike/Wine Tour - September 19th/20th
Gleening???
Canning - Apples
October
Field Trip???
Cooking Class?
November
December
Looks like most events will be open to non members. Slow Food USA requires we have 1 event open to the public so we will satisfy that requirement. I'm wondering about the gleening open to the public as we are working with farms opening up to liability and we cannot vouch for the non members?? Bike Tours, Garden tours and film fest are the most conducive to non member attendance.