http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/foodnotlawnsspringfieldil/ Food Not Lawns: Springfield, IL Sat, 30 Aug 2008 01:03:52 GMT zombans http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/foodnotlawnsspringfieldil/message/373 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/foodnotlawnsspringfieldil/message/373 This blog is pretty good. I ran across this post today, 40 steps on the personal path to green, Thu, 28 Aug 2008 13:51:42 GMT zombans http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/foodnotlawnsspringfieldil/message/372 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/foodnotlawnsspringfieldil/message/372 Nope, not for many years. The last I worked for them was at the downtown market selling their baked goods. carey Thu, 28 Aug 2008 03:36:52 GMT Wally Hartshorn http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/foodnotlawnsspringfieldil/message/371 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/foodnotlawnsspringfieldil/message/371 Do you still work at Food Fantasies? I'm wondering if I've seen you and just didn't know it. (Since I've never been to a meeting, I've no idea what you look Wed, 27 Aug 2008 20:24:27 GMT CecilyAnne Edwards http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/foodnotlawnsspringfieldil/message/370 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/foodnotlawnsspringfieldil/message/370 Day 2 of cold-turkey car-less-ness. I WANT MY CAR!! WAAAAHHHHH!!!!! Ha ha ha. We missed the 7W to go downtown by ONE MINUTE this morning. Literally, if I'd Wed, 27 Aug 2008 13:47:09 GMT zombans http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/foodnotlawnsspringfieldil/message/369 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/foodnotlawnsspringfieldil/message/369 Cecily, we surely are blessed by living between two bus routes, with several others within a five or six blocks. It gives us a lot of options. You certainly Wed, 27 Aug 2008 01:08:43 GMT CecilyAnne Edwards http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/foodnotlawnsspringfieldil/message/368 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/foodnotlawnsspringfieldil/message/368 Beginning today, I'm experimenting with car-freedom (brings to mind herds of free-range VW Beetles). As a family, car-freedom is impossible for us. Even if my Tue, 26 Aug 2008 17:11:00 GMT zombans http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/foodnotlawnsspringfieldil/message/367 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/foodnotlawnsspringfieldil/message/367 And the things I forgot: We'll be in the big Carnegie Room, the North Room. We need to be out between 3 and 3:30, so if by chance we don't have time for Tue, 26 Aug 2008 15:32:45 GMT zombans http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/foodnotlawnsspringfieldil/message/366 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/foodnotlawnsspringfieldil/message/366 Just a reminder that the next FNL meeting is tomorrow, Wednesday, at 1 p.m. at the downtown library. Parking is available again underneath the library. We Tue, 26 Aug 2008 02:20:37 GMT Charles Doty http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/foodnotlawnsspringfieldil/message/365 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/foodnotlawnsspringfieldil/message/365 I would Love to be able to contribute seeds, as I am a seed attic. Have a Community Garden in Champaign on two acres of Public School land I have many seeds Tue, 26 Aug 2008 02:15:51 GMT zombans http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/foodnotlawnsspringfieldil/message/364 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/foodnotlawnsspringfieldil/message/364 I'm bringing seed packets to give away at the meeting on Wednesday. They're leftovers from the spring seed swap, and I'm aiming to bring ones appropriate for Sun, 24 Aug 2008 22:13:46 GMT Bill and Meredith http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/foodnotlawnsspringfieldil/message/363 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/foodnotlawnsspringfieldil/message/363 ... There will most certainly be another seed swap, but I'd rather we hold off until next Spring. The event will yield significantly more excitement if Sun, 24 Aug 2008 01:18:03 GMT zombans http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/foodnotlawnsspringfieldil/message/362 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/foodnotlawnsspringfieldil/message/362 Wow, that is a lot of mints! I know in learning to forage, there are an awful lot of plants that are square-stemmed that I have to shrug and say, well it's in Sat, 23 Aug 2008 04:47:15 GMT Charles Doty http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/foodnotlawnsspringfieldil/message/361 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/foodnotlawnsspringfieldil/message/361 I will contact Mint Chroncials to get alist of endangered species in Illinois. am starting a new group to discuss the different mints. there are 3500 diffenent Sat, 23 Aug 2008 01:23:04 GMT zombans http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/foodnotlawnsspringfieldil/message/360 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/foodnotlawnsspringfieldil/message/360 We have a respectable mint patch this year. Next year I will dry the leaves for tea to go along with my raspberry leaf tea. I also have a very shady patch Fri, 22 Aug 2008 23:53:24 GMT Charles Doty http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/foodnotlawnsspringfieldil/message/359 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/foodnotlawnsspringfieldil/message/359 Yes Mint will grow there and it will spread. We are working to  get Mint growing there are 3500 diffent mint plants some on the endangered species list in