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Producer Resources
Western Meat Industry Roundtable
DRAFT AGENDA
May 14-15
Boise, ID |
Alma Hasse, Executive Director
ICARE (Idaho Concerned Area Residents for the Environment)
An Idaho Non-Profit Corporation
Post Office Box 922
Fruitland, Idaho 83619
(208) 695-1556 Cell
(208) 674-1222 Fax
idahocare@yahoo.com
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Friday May 14
9:00-9:30 Participants Self Introduction
9:30-9:45 Introduction to the Meat Project-- William Kramer (ICCR)
- Review of 2009 Work
- Priorities for 2010
9:45-10:45 Speaker from Johns Hopkins? via Skype
10:45- 11:00 Coffee break
11:00-12:30 pm Break up into issue working groups
Possible topics
(1) Antibiotics and public health
(2) Water pollution
(3) Air pollution and greenhouse gasses
(4) Worker health and safety
(5) Farm Bill and livestock markets
(6) Grower relations/ monopoly power
(7) Promoting purchasing of local and sustainable meat
(8) GE alfalfa/ wheat and rbGH
**Materials will be handed out to each working groups to help you focus on developing your "asks", selecting working group leaders, and developing a work plan.**
12:30-1:30 Lunch break
1:30-2:30 All reconvene; discuss progress of working groups
2:30-3:30 Working groups reconvene
3:30-4:00 Break
4-5:30 Reconvene as large group--working groups present work plans
5:30 pm Dinner
7:30 pm Movie showing--French TV show on CAFOs in Idaho
Saturday May 15
9:00-9:30 am Reconvene and discuss plan for the day
9:30 am-noon Meet in skill focused working groups
(1) Litigation
(2) Media
(3) Fundraising
(4) Building alliances with labor
12:00- 1:00 pm Reconvene in larger group for working lunch- Report on results of skill focused workgroups
- Discuss mechanics of working group work moving forward (conference calls, email lists, etc)
- Discuss plan for National Meat Roundtable in January 2011
1:00-1:30 Quick collective evaluation/ closing
***Post roundtable flyovers and/or driving tour****
Global Gardens - help needed
Hi Idaho Growers, 
This is Katie at Global Gardens in Boise. I run a program to train refugee farm entrepreneurs, and met most of you at the conference in Twin Falls this winter. We opened up a new incubator farm this year in Star, 22 acres with 12 families leasing one-acre plots, a mentor farmer farming 2 acres and assisting with the program, and a livestock area which is a new addition for us.
The whole thing is flood irrigated and I'm trying to scare up some additional siphon tubes, so that we can water more of the field at one time and minimize the cost of running our pump. If you've moved on to other kinds of irrigation systems and have some around that you're not using and would like to donate, we could really use them. Any size is ok, though 1 inch or larger would be the best. We can pick them up anywhere within a one hour radius of Boise, or maybe in the Twin area as I have plans to be down there for other reasons in the fairly near future, and we can give you a receipt for a tax deductible donation. Thanks to Lee Rice and Kera Whiting for already giving us a bunch, and to Beth Rasgorshek for donating a big load of plants!
 We're also in search of a burro or a llama to act as a guard animal. We'll be raising sheep and goats for the moment, and hope to add chickens once we get a suitable structure built for them.
You can get more info about our program at our website, www.idahorefugees.org/home/Global_Gardens. We also have a facebook fan page if you want to get updates on what we're doing:
http://www.facebook.com/home.php?ref=home#!/pages/Global-Gardens/253788771077
Thanks for your support!
Katie
katiepainter5@gmail.com
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