New Business
1. Seattle Urban Farm Co-op – Group. A new group starting up in Seattle. From the Yahoo group:
“The Seattle Urban Farm Co-op is a community-based project to start a co-op to purchase supplies for urban farmers in the Seattle area.
Our focus will be on obtaining supplies such as animal feed, fertilizers, mulch, seeds, etc., from local & organic sources.  More information
Yahoo group: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/seattleurbanfarmcoop/
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=50710252506&_fb_noscript=1
Future website: http://surfcoop.com/
2. Possible Sustainable CH ‘field trip’ to Raintree Nursery.  It is located in Morton, WA. 2 hours S of Seattle.
No date yet.
3. Chickens – Members have had good luck with Road Island Reds and/or Whites.

Old Business
1. Pruning for fruit trees that will later be gleaned.  So none have been identified for sure. Contact Lanae or Bert H.
2. Permaculture – neighborhood designs – beyond individual backyards.  East of 12th will be working with Bert, others welcome to join. No
date yet.
3. Green Acre Radio.  Five minute segment that airs several times a week on KBCS.  Martha Baskin does a great job.  There are now
podcasts availables too.  A recent show featured the “Farm Boys” – previous neighbors of Carol B.  More information on her blog:
http://greenacreradio.blogspot.com/
4. Seed sharing and group purchasing:
Next meeting bring seeds to share and a list of seeds you want to buy.  Swap seeds and combine orders to save $ and shipping costs
Next  Meeting Sunday February 14th.
5-7 PM Potluck 5:00 – 5:30.
Room 4 Crown Hill Center.
Danielle will facilitate the meeting.

Upcoming Events:

Thanksgiving Salmon Walk (3rd Annual)
Saturday 28 November 10 AM
Meet at the old oak on the Corner of 13th Ave and 95th Street NW. We will walk to Carkeek Park. Doug will provide information about restoration of the salmon habitat and Carkeek Park.

Holiday Card Making Party
In lieu of a December meeting, Danielle has proposed a holiday card making party. More information later.

Next Regular meeting

Celebration of 2009: a busy and successful year:

• Halloween Party
• Table at the November Arts Festival
• Crown Hill Center and Park Purchase
• Speed bumps on Mary and 14th Avenues
• Traffic circle at Mary and 92nd
• Fruit gleaning for food banks
• Permaculture workshops (2)
• Sheet Mulching workshop
• Native Plant Workshop
• Soap classes
• Kitchen party
• Movie nights
• Moving meetings in the CH Center
• And best of all many meetings with wonderful food and neighbors

Activities continuing into 2010 (and beyond)

Permaculture: Additional workshops to be planned for the winter. They will be in the Sunday Afternoon before the Sustainable meeting, as we did this Spring. More information will be forth coming. Actions:

• Bert to hold a couple more workshops that include background principles etc.
• Martin still planning on the solar workshop

Fruit Gleaning and Tree Pruning: There are many old fruit trees in CH where the fruit is not being used by the owners. These trees need pruning. Some Sustainable CH neighbors took a fruit tree pruning workshop a couple of years ago. The general plan is to identify potential fruit trees this fall (while they have leaves), leave a flyer at the door with information about the pruning and gleaning project. The trees can be pruned this winter and then harvest next summer and fall.

• Lanae to make a new flyer up in a PDF and distribute to the sustainable list.
• Lanae and Bert are the contacts for the project
• People available for pruning include: Dennis, Kit, Frank, Doug, Carol, Mira, Martin, Stephanie, and Eric (If I missed your name, let me know.)

Street Painting Project: The time to apply for a grant is in April 2009 for a summer project, so now is a good time to start talking with neighbors to lay the ground work. It is now possible to paint streets between intersections and not just the intersection!! One idea possible location is on 95th between 13th and 14th. The 12th Ave neighbors are interested in doing a street painting this year. More than one painting could be included in a single grant. Actions:

• Doug to take a lead to get things going for 12th Ave
• Frank to have a party to bring neighbors together for 12th Ave

Mary Dead End (north of 100th) Traffic Calming: In follow up to the Walkable Crown Hill Project, a group of Mary Avenue neighbors submitted a grant for traffic calming on Mary Ave and stairs on the 103rd right-of-way. At this time the group is working with the city on the details of the street calming. The stairs are on hold.

Community Garden: Lanae and Jason are converting some land on Journey Church property (92th and 11th) into a community garden. Volunteers welcome.

Park Planning: After the Fire Department has moved out the planning and construction of the park can take place. The fire department is scheduled to move out of their temporary quarters in August 2010. While there is the Levy money in place for building the park, proposed city cutbacks for the Parks Departments may delay the planning of the implementation. Discussed that since the initial park design sustainability is more in the forefront. Decided that proactively Sustainable CH could come up with sustainable ideas or concepts that we felt were important for including in the park. Various ideas (general and more specific) were put forward including, using recycled materials, solar and wind power for lighting, p-patch or community garden.

Mobile Pizza Oven: One neighbor is interested in building a mobile pizza oven in 2010!!

Updates, general announcements, and misc.

Rapid Ride: It is on Schedule for 2012. The proposed rapid ride line D will replace the 15 and and run North on 15th East on 100th and turn around near the QFC. More details as the come available.

Holman Median Project: People in both CHNA and Sustainable CH are working toward a plan having medians and turning lanes along 15th and Holman. This is to both make it safer for crossing the street and beautify the area.
Ryan McFarland of CHNA is leading this effort.

Power Pool and Traffic Light control boxes: Apparently Seattle city light as a process for painting the boxes that hold the controls for traffic lights. Crown Hill Business Association is looking into this as well has painting power poles along the pedestrian corridor.

Notes by Kit Galvin. Additions or corrections please email tehama@speakeasy.net

Announcements

Significant Tree Program

- grant has been submitted by CHNA to Seattle Dept of Neighborhoods

- Go to CrownHillNeighbors.org to  tell about your favorite CH tree or trees.

Sat Nov 7.  Crown Hill Arts festival  6:30 PM- Art Walk
- Find out about local community groups
- Dance performances including Irish, Flamenco, and Ballet
- Beer Garden and music
- Instant Beer Cellar Raffle
- Day Care

Missing mail
- some neighbors have had mail stolen
- locking mail boxes available at seattleluxe.com and Home Depot

Discussed High School reassignment plan
- The new boundary for Ballard High is now 85th.  North of that will be going to Ingram.
Speed bumps & traffic circles
- Speed bumps on Mary are working out
- City has a new arborist for the traffic circle
- Overall the traffic has slowed down with the traffic circle and speed bumps.

Planting with native plants.
- Doub G.  will be leading a 1 hour workshop at his house. It will include a tour of his the native plantings in his yard (took place in October)

Up coming Celebrations
Art Fair (see above)
>Dennis and Danielle: Info table information
>Lanae – Sustainable CH Flyer – Advertises successes including workshops
Halloween celebration – 24 October 6-8 PM at outside Crown Hill Center
Advertising needed
>Lanae – flyer, send out to sustainable list and CHN Newsnotes
>Dennis and Danielle work out how to have an RSVP for the email announcement

Future Activities
Fruit harvest

Discussed many different possiblities for CH and what other neighborhoods are doing.  Phinney has a grant to set up a program and pay for a coordinator.  They had a lot of success this year and looking for ways for the program to be self sustiaining.  Lanae is using the Lettuce Link flyer on her own and picking when people contacted her.  Bert brought up that we could identify a few (~3) trees that need pruning, provide the pruning in the winter and then come back to pick in the fall. To have a full program we would need to have a coordinator – either volunter or paid (through grants possibly?).  This is a big job. Decided that for now we would keep it small and informal in CH based on individuals identifying trees and contacting residents.  Several sustainable folks volunteered for the following
> Bert take the lead on 3 trees for pruning and harvesting
>Advertising: Dennis, Lanaie, Doug, and Michael.
>Look for trees: Danielle, Lanae, and Annie

Canning Workshop
Discussed holding a canning workshop.  King County Ag was teaching an canning class, a special event with Canning Across America (Check out their website http://www.canningacrossamerica.com/).  Discussed putting on a canning workshop.  We could bring in the King County Ag person. Possible locations with Kitchens, including Greenwood Senior Center and Whitman School.

Next Sustainable Meeting: Sunday 8 November 2009 at Crown Hill Center Room 4.
>Reserve room – key: Danielle
>Facilitator: Bert

Future Meetings will be held on the 2nd Sunday of the month at Crown Hill Center. Same format 5-5:30 potluck 5:30 – 7pm meeting.

Sustainable Crown Hill is putting on a Sheet Mulching and Lasagna Gardening Workshop.  These are methods for converting lawn and other areas into the healthy soil and garden space the easy way.  This workshop is for both people wanting to learn and those who are ‘old hands’.   Bring your curiosity, questions, and experience to share.  Using layers of different materials including cardboard, straw, manure, burlap, and even feathers, we will put into practice what we’ve learned help to covert a lawn to future garden space.

Please wear  garden clothes and sturdy shoes.  Work or garden gloves will be a plus.
For directions and information contact Kit at
tehama@speakeasy.net or 206.706.7663 evenings and weekends

Carol K & Doug brought a new (at least to me) dessert they made with raspberries and blueberries picked that afternoon in their garden. Can’t beat homegrown for local. The fruit bakes in the middle between the top and bottom layers of a cake like batter. The dessert’s called Jay’s Clafloutie. The fruit plays the leading role in this not too sweet dessert. I’m adding clafloutie to my list of favorite fresh fruit desserts. Others include buckles, slumps, grunts, as well as the old standards: crisps, crips, cobblers, and pies. Oh and here is another one, pandowdy. I believe we have New Englanders to thank for many of names*.

Back to the potluck. Dennis and I had better luck at the Central Market for local Washington State produce. I learned Bingen, WA is down the road from White Salmon and across the Columbia River from Hood River. It is also the home of Dickey Farms–source of the green beans we cooked up with some fresh garlic from our garden.

Dennis picked up Golden Raspberries from Sterino Farms from Fife, WA for the raspberry sorbet. He sweetened it with Silverbow Honey http://www.silverbowhoney.com now based in Moses Lake (originally west of the Cascades). Silverbow’s a Washington label since early 1900′s. They process much of the honey from beehives used to pollinate our state’s tree fruit orchards.

Then Carol B’s neighbor dropped of some salad greens from his garden and along with greens Carol and Doug brought over we topped of the meal with a Crown Hill Salad.

Hope you can join us next time!

*From the The King Arthur Flour Baker’s Companion (The best baking cookbook I’ve ever used):

• buckle = streusel and fruit topped coffee cake. In the oven, the two cups of fruit sink while the batter rises. It “buckles” as it cooks.
• grunt or slump = dumpling affair – no chicken, just biscuit dough dropped into simmering fruit and sugar.
• pandowdy = No experience here, just a description from a cookbook. A fruit custard baked in a pie shell. After it is out of the oven, the cook “dowdies” the pie by breaking up the crusts (top and bottom) and mixing pieces into filling. Somehow the pieces of crust stay crisp. hmmm.