LBCS Staff Meeting, April 9th at La Boca Gabe Talked at the Community Design Course Finished the Beginning Farmers Workshop, presented draft of LBCS business plan as final project at the Workshop Spent time with Archuleta County Commissioner and FLC students giving tour at La Boca. We are being recognized as a source of information Will cover small animal husbandry presentation June 9th, Bayfield Library if Eric or Dan do not. Keith & Kelle Starts in greenhouse at Spring Mountain Growers are up Dan’s picking up potatoes in Hotchkiss Working in garden, prepping beds, direct seeding cold weather crops, transplanted asparagus and tended fruit trees and strawberry plantings and added compost Started working on LBCS greenhouse Surveyed the big field, 9 feet of drop from water source to bottom of field Will present at the Bayfield Library series - May 4th Will be present at Slow Food showing of Heart and Soil, April 22nd Eric Harrowing almost done in hay fields Chasing neighbors cows out of here Started working on the flume project, has a backhoe rented for a month starting on Tuesday the 14th. Paid work project Friday the 17th Milling lumber for projects Ordering seed for grain production, sold some wheat berries to Gunnison, suggest to talk to Turtle Lake for purchases of wheat berries Finishing up the compost bin and materials for shed 3 baby goats, time to milk Luna Surveyed north field Erin Will table at the Green Living Expo – April 18th and 19th, Decided not to attend Barnyard Days Will table at the Dandelion festival, May 16th. Will invite CSA members down Sunday afternoon May 31rst to show them the farm and the source of their food and a wagon ride – a CSA Member Appreciation Day Lee Gillette has some bees to give to us in exchange for money off from CSA, Kelle and Keith will take the bee project on using hives that Eric brought from Montana through Zita Field Trip tomorrow with Lee Gillette (CDOW) to scout out her station at La Boca to release classroom raised Chubs in the Pine River Classes scheduled  to come out Wednesday, April 22nd, 65 students. Kelle will cover the Compost Station in the garden. Sunnyside School on Thursday April  23rd, 20 students, Park School on Thursday April 30th,  and a school on Thursday May 14th, Met with Chris Hall of DCAT, they have done a lot for us in producing the Joel Salatin DVD and will help produce LBCS promotional DVD. Steve is working on script and using some of his footage for the LBCS DVD. We need to raise some cash for this promotional DVD. Spent 3 days at SW Marketing Network Conference Chester Drafted organizational chart and Project Leader Contracts Organized team to develop grant application on accepted letter of intent to the Harris Foundation re: educational video production for 5th graders. Paying bills and financials update. Waiting for income from CSA and Trustees (new fence construction) to pay salaries Will meet with Brian Kimmell and County Planners Ap. 14th to plan for Community Design Course Presentation on the 27th in Durango and May 2nd at La Boca. The class is using La Boca for their Design Charrette. Continued gathering information for Trust Fund application for potable water and water and electricity to hay barn. Reviewed website maintenance with Terry SWAg donating a tractor for the spader (next Tuesday and Wednesday), drafted a letter for Members to come see spader and draft horse cultivation on Wednesday the 15th Terry will put together a document sharing site through the LBCS website on his server Intern updates from Gabe Alison Locklind, May 15th to November/December Ben Powell will May 10th Piper – coming next week, Jane came by today to check out La Boca, she is interested Lucio sponsored by Zia Taqueria Week of May 12th Open Sky and Kalin Grigg’s Class overnight May 12-13th Open Sky confirmed 10 overnight visits at $600.00/visit starting April 23rd and done every 3 weeks. Calling it Farm Immersion Program. Developing a season long Master Calendar, Season long to keep track of what is happening and what is slated, to help with management and marketing development Erin and SW Marketing Conference Suggest that at least someone for each track attend next year Huge amount of information available, ideas for marketing and selling a variety of farm products and dealing with USDA regulations, grants that are available. Erin has a pile of information available to review at LBCS