6th Annual Lake County Wellness Celebration (LCWC) OCT. 4th

LAKE COUNTY WELLNESS ENTHUSIASTS- Join UI Extension, Lake County Unit, to CELEBRATE LAKE COUNTY! Our Families, Farms, locally grown Food and mind/body Fitness.

Start the celebration by building your strength in the 5k Run/Walk on the Prairie and Kids Runs. At the festival, Master Gardeners 4-H clubs and Extension families and friends are invited to taste the robust flavors of prepared locally grown food and network with 15 local farmers and 40 organizations that promote healthy living, open space, or gardening, or grow or prepare locally grown food.

WHY CELEBRATE FAMILY, FARM, FOOD & FITNESS? We all seek total wellness for our families, from the food we eat, for our body, our minds, our land, our community. Our county has so much to celebrate and this is a wonderful event and setting for such.

Celebration partners are Prairie Crossing Charter School, Lake Forest Hospital, Liberty Prairie Conservancy, Lake County High Schools Technology Campus, Prairie Crossing Learning Farm.

Visit LCwellnesscelebration.org for more information and run registration or call the Extension office at 847-223-8627.

Music in the Garden

The Silver Strings string quartet will be performing this coming Sunday at the Genesee Street garden from 2:30pm -3:30pm. Come join us, This event is entirely free. See you there!

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Garden in the Music this Sunday August 9th

Come join us this Sunday from 1pm-8pm for some great live music at the Genesee Street garden. The event is free. The lineup is as follows:

1:00pm - Local Talent

3:30pm - Michael Kelsey (http://www.michaelkelsey.com/)

6:00pm - The Downhome Sophisticates (http://www.myspace.com/downhomesophisticates)

Composting Class

This Saturday, July 25, 2009 Cheryl Pytlarz will hold a composting class at the Genesee garden from 10:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. If you are interested in attending, please let me know. Your neighbors and friends are welcome.

Tierra Nueva Benefit featuring Michael Kelsey

Join us in support of the Tierra Nueva Benefit at the Genesee Street Garden on August 9th from 1-8pm. There will be live music featuring Michael Kelsey (http://www.MichaelKelsey.com) and plenty of food and drink. See you there!

GTW Meeting

The next GTW meeting will be on July 8th @ 7pm. See you there!

Green Town Waukegan Meeting Minutes – June 10, 2009
Attendees: Fred Bairstow, Bridgette Small, Madeleine Fuqua, Larry Sell, Nada Nikolich Finn


Topic/Issues/Comments

TOWN Board
Expand TOWN Board
Responses are coming back.

Meetings
Next meeting.
July 8th.

WOW (Working on Waukegan)
Another meeting or event has not been scheduled

Materials
Soil, compost, mulch
We will be able to prepay for supplies and have them hold the supplies until next year. I ordered 5 cuyd of leaf mulch to be delivered 06/05/09. I ordered 5 cuyds of container mix with compost 50/50 mix. We need to discuss tools that we may need. I purchased two of the weed tool that Julie brought.

Raised beds and flower beds
Three new raised beds were assembled filled and planted Materials for two more raised beds have been purchased and put together by Larry. These beds will be for tomatoes, zucchini and cucumbers. Beds will be completed for completion next Saturday. I have asked the Township office if they could send us four people on Saturday.

GTW Events
Earth Day, Music and Art Festival, Closing Event, Educational Event. Music and Art festival will be a fundraiser.
Other events will be scheduled. A fundraising event with Michael Kelsey will be on August 9th.

Website
Update website to reflect the changes we have taken. Funders will be looking at an out of date website.
I will provide website changes by June 25. I would appreciate each of you to provide me with website changes that you would like made. After I have provided my changes, please review them and let me know if the changes have made our website better.

Fundraisers
A letter to local business has been drafted but not finalized. This letter will be sent out by June 15. Please provide me with names of businesses that you feel should be added to our list.

Plants
I picked up the plants from Midwest Groundcovers. Please see the table below. I will ask Wadsworth Feed for plants next week. I will provide zucchini plants and cucumber plants for planting this Saturday. Someone has the sunflower seeds that I ordered. We will plant these this weekend. I will purchase pumpkin plants.

Seeds
Dan Traynoff has a greenhouse and has offered to start our seeds.
Dan will bring flats of plants for planting this Saturday. We still have calla lilies that need to be planted.

Trees
Please provide me with a list of possible trees we could use.
I am working with Care of Trees regarding free or reduced rate trees.

Statuettes
We will not purchase statues this year..

Radio shows
We will discuss possible radio shows at our next meeting.

Education
We are working with The Academy of Our Lady school after school club. They have helped at the garden twice this spring. The First Baptist Church will host a four-week ‘Summer Experience’, which will include time at the garden. I have asked Julie Dodds if she would like to partner with them. I have helped Andrew Cooke Magnet School with finding a company that would repair their greenhouse.

Miscellaneous
I will pick up the sign from Signs Now regarding a sign indicating the time of workdays.

Budget
Grant money needs to be spent by June 30, 2009.

Parking Lot: Com Ed and the use of the land under the power lines for growing food or grains. Ravines, and locally grown food.

Join us for a day in the Garden

Join us any Saturday this summer between 10am-12pm at the Genesee Street Garden. Help beautify our community! See you there!

Workin on Waukegan

Meeting Agenda for 5/13

Topic	Issues	Comments
TOWN Board	Expand TOWN Board	A letter recruiting new members will be sent next week.
Meetings	How would we like to schedule the meetings for the rest of the year?	Meetings will be scheduled for the second Wednesday of the month.
WOW (Working on Waukegan)		The city is working to raise the environmental awareness of its citizens by creating a group that would organize projects for volunteers to work on. The first event is this Saturday from 9-12. Please forward the email I sent you to anyone that may be interested in ‘working on Waukegan’.
Materials	Do we have enough soil, compost and wood chips to get us through the end of May?	I ordered 5 cu yds of compost and container mix. I purchased a garden cart, 6 buckets, 1 75 foot garden hose, 3 75foot soaker hoses, 2 60 foot soaker hoses and a hose ? Router to connect the soaker hoses to the regular hose.
New raised bed and flower bed	Julie Dodds has taken the offer to work to create one of the new raised beds and work on an existing flowerbed.	Julie will guide volunteers to the creation of the raised beds. She will also work on one of the flowerbeds.
GTW Events	Earth Day, Music and Art Festival, Closing Event, Educational Event	It rained on Earth Day. Other events will be scheduled during the summer. We will work with Larry to schedule a music Event in August or September.
Website	Update website to reflect the changes we have taken. Funders will be looking at an out of date website.	I will provide website changes by 05/14/09.
Fundraisers	Music and Art festival will be a fundraiser. A letter to local business has been drafted but not finalized. This letter will be sent out the week after next.. Please keep a running list of possible businesses that we can approach. I would like to have someone available to help me create the labels and stuff envelopes.	.
Plants	I will begin the search for free plants in April and May. Please let me know what we would need.	I have sent letters to Jamaican Gardens, Gurnee Garden Center, Larsen’s Florist, and Midwest Groundcovers. I will try to call each of these before the weekend. I will pick up flowers from Chicago Botanic Gardens on 05/18/09.
Seeds	Dan Traynoff has a greenhouse and has offered to start our seeds.	Dan has picked up the seeds and will begin to grow them in his greenhouse so that we will have small plants to plant in May. I purchased strawberry plants to plant this weekend. I also have herbs for planning.
Trees	Please provide me with a list of possible trees we could use.	Margaret Martin provided us with a list of trees that we should look at. If anyone would like to take the role of calling for trees should contact me. I will contact The Care of Trees came out the end of last week. The will either provide us with free tree or provide them to us for a discount.
Statuettes
Radio shows		DK Environmental and EarthWild Gardens did a pod cast show last Wednesday. Cheryl Pytlarz and other members of the group would like to run a 10 series program on issues such as how to identify where to put your garden, how to start seeds, which seeds should be direct seeded, canning and so many more.
Education		We are working with The Academy of Our Lady school after school club will help at the garden the last Thursday of the month.
Volunteers		.
Budget		Please review the 2009 budget and provide me with any changes that should be made.
Parking Lot: Com Ed and the use of the land under the power lines for growing food or grains. Ravines, and locally grown food.

Volunteers Needed

Please come out and help work the Genesee Street community garden (corner of Genesee and Washington). We will be working the garden every Saturday from 10am - 2pm. Tell your friends and neighbors. See you there!