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fresh food exchange

andrea — Sun, 14 May 2006 01:56:53 -0700

I know that my garden is going to produce more than I can use this year and I was thinking of starting some kind of garden exchange where people can bring things from their garden to trade with other people. It would give people a chance to try different veggies and to trade gardening stories and tips. The idea is still pretty loose, so any suggestions that anyone has would be totaly welcome!

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Neighbourhood Gardens

darrenhatina — Fri, 19 May 2006 12:51:35 -0700

From another discussion about a food exchange the idea of having a neighbourhood garden program came up.

Here's a link

http://neighbourgardens.affinitybridge.com

The concept as I understand is matching people with gardening land with people without. Great idea.

If any one is interested feel free to discuss it here.

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Think Tank

darrenhatina — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 21:07:23 -0800

Hi everyone,

Like we discussed last night at Helen’s we should focus on making firm commitments to our Think Tank movie choices in the future and get the advertising process down. So here are some of my thoughts on the matter. The goal should be to develop a process that uses the groups time effectively while producing good attendance at the screenings. There are a lot of electronic forms of advertising out there and it would maybe be best (least effort most results) if we consistently produced a standard package and emailed out to an advertisers distribution list.

The standard package might include the poster graphic, the movie graphic with think tank banner, a description of film/time/location, link to the trailer (maybe on our website)

Some ideas for a distribution list;
-Fernie fix (printed) - Deadline?
-Fernie fix (e-fix)
-Ourfernie.com
-Facebook network
-The ALL mailing list
-Fernie.com?
-Vogue theater markee (if we screen it there)
-The printers (for postering)
-ALL members

We could divvy up the roles;
-Arts Station chair setter upper/team
-Apres discussion facilitator
-Graphic design for poster and movie graphic
-Advertiser distribution list mailer person
-Movie selection and prescreening committee

I liked how last year we had the posters that grouped pre and post New Years movies together, it reduced the need to actually go out and do postering from like 6-8 to just 2.

Maybe in the future attendees could donate time hours to ALL for attending the screenings

Please add your thoughts or bring them to the next meeting.

Long live Think Tank Cinema!
D

Advocates for Local Living - ALL (Fernie, B.C.)

Complementary Currency

darrenhatina — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 21:13:48 -0800

I found a new type of system which seems to combine the best of all the systems we talked about, its called ROCS or robust complementary currency system
Check it out… http://www.transaction.net/money/rocs/ the whole site is great.

Here’s the link on the vid on how the software from timebanks.org works http://www.timebanks.org/swf/tour/weaver-demo.htm also a great site

I’ve contacted the developer of the software system featured in the movie last night, TimeKeeper – apparently it’s free – we could demo it and possibly trial it with a small group of volunteers.

Thoughts…?
D

Advocates for Local Living - ALL (Fernie, B.C.)