Harvest Dinner - planning meeting notes 10-27-15

Vegetarian Pot Luck to celebrate our new Giving Garden's first growing year!

Nov 21   5:00PM-7:30PM

Vegetarian / Local / Sustainable / Low impact. Green team provides desert and drinks.

-          bring: list of ingredients / what makes it green?

o   At dinner: fill out a card with cook’s name / ingredients / what makes it green – Fran

Promotion

-          Publicity – Bill – church weekly newsletter “The Buzz” (join us for a night of good food and friendly fellowship)

-          Church announcements – (Mark – talk to Dana)

-          Fellowship hour – signup table (main/side) – Mark Nov 8^th, Candy Nov 15^th

-          Invite your friends! :)

-          Deserts and drinks – Green team – Candy, Fran, Mark

o   Cider, water

o   coffee, tea - Fran

Setup (4:30PM)

-          long tables for displays, serving, round tables for diners

-          use church plates and silverware, plastic table clothes

-          Coloring materials - Fran

Welcoming time (5:00 – 5:30PM)

Displays / Tables

-          Giving garden – Emily, Cindy (Fran)

-          Church Solar panels – Bill

-          Bees – Fran

-          Cover crop – Mark Aude (Fran)

-          MIPL and Faith based climate action – Mark

o   Pope, Jewish congregations, etc, carbon pricing, testifying on the carbon tax

o   Postcards for our state and national representatives

Greeting Prayer (5:30PM) – Mark – invite Alex to do this

Song before dinner

Garden Song (“Inch by Inch” ) – ask Steve Longo to play (Candy)

Dinner time (5:45- 6:30)

Speakers (6:30 – 7:15)

-          AHS intern – (Steve) will contact

-          ? Linda Z or Emily – to talk about farms supporting needy in Merrimack Valley  (Mark)

-          ? Mark Aude – (Fran will contact?)

Closing (7:20) – possibly Alex (Mark)