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Valley of the Moon Ranch, NM
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Family meeting 2/22/2009

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Posted February 22nd, 2009 by Chris

Present for meeting:
Diane
Jacob
Marcus
Chris
Ron for 2nd half

Orchard Location

Location of orchard was discussed and may depend on location of future greenhouse.
Barriers for goat-proofing need to be figured out as well.
Test trees and barriers are to be set up at likely locations to see if they can survive.

Goat Barn

The posts for a hay storage barn attached to the main goat barn are in place. Materials are needed to finish it. A time is to be scheduled for milling wood.

Amtgard Event

Scheduled for the Labor Day weekend (Sep 3 - 7).

Chris is one of the directors of the event this year and has arranged for $4 per person to cover the feast with a possible $7 extra for people that want an extra special feast.

Portable kitchen was discussed for food sales at the campsite instead of having people walk to the main building. The oven + grill, a range top, and water heater would need to be set up on propane and on some sort of platform or vehicle. The bread truck is a possibility.

Work weekends for site improvements (Shower, firepit, campsite water diversion, and pillory) will be scheduled soon so people can plan ahead. The possible castle project would be after these were done.

Chris is to research vegetable oil for killing mosquitoes.

Castle

Still in the early planning phases, project would be funded and built by Amtgard members.

Adobe Making Workshop

Get this on the schedule to make sure volunteers and people interested in learning can make it. Contact Chris Cherry and Adam to see if they are interested in helping run the workshop. Best time is likely May-June.

Pinon Harvesting for 2010

We need to research sales methods for getting the most we can. This year a lot of places were selling nuts in shell for $20-25 a lb.

Website

Order flow for products on the website was discussed. The previous cart software was not working so new software has been installed.

A class for adding products and content to the site will happen after everything is running correctly.