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THANKS
Thank you very much to Kevin and Nancy Minnigirode and Frank and Judy Ciccone for showing their gardens.

GARDEN CLEAN UP TIME
It’s time to begin cleaning up our gardens. Compost the finished plants and then cover the soil with mulch or straw. Alternatively, spread manure or compost, work this in and seed a cover crop. For details see cleanup details

CCOG NEWSLETTER ONLINE
Save the planet! To get the newsletter online via email instead of paper mail, email polotka@gmail.com with your email address.  We are still mailing 31 paper copies!

Remember, each printed piece uses more resources to print, stamp, mail and deliver by fossil fuel vehicles. You can add comments, suggestions and links at the CCOG website. To read the CCOG newsletter on the web go to http://ccog.wordpress.com

SPEAKER DAPHNE JOCHNICK
For the CCOG November 20 meeting, Speaker Daphne Jochnick. She spent from Aug. 2006 through Sept. 2007 working with organic farmers in Tanzania, as a Sustainable Agriculture Fellow for Global Service Corps.

She was not there as an agricultural expert, but as someone to assess and facilitate the Sustainable Agriculture program, which at the time was five years running.  Her job took her into the field with the (Organic) Bio-Intensive Agriculture trainers to discuss with the

farmers what was working and not working about the program.  Together they made efforts to take the program forward.  In the process of her work Daphne came into contact with Tanzanians and Kenyans on the forefront of the Organic Agriculture movement in East Africa.

Her talk will include the following topics:
The connection between Sustainable Agriculture and the AIDS epidemic.
Why groups like GSC promote organics in Tanzania. See calendar for event details.

GREENCAPE

At the November 20th meeting, GreenCAPE will show a short film on Pets and Lawn Pesticides at their annual meeting which will begin an hour (6:00 PM) before the CCOG. The meeting is open to everyone and includes our annual election, business meeting, followed by the film which will start promptly at 6:30 and then merge with the CCOG meeting.

NEW MEMBERS
Welcome to new member: Christine Van Hooft.

VOLUNTEER NEEDED
We need a volunteer to host the winter pot luck. Call Jean at 508 362 8136.

OCTOBER

October  16 Thursday at 7 pm:  CCOG Meeting Wheldon Library. Rt 149 W. Barnstable:Members will share their summer production successes and problems as well as discuss seed varieties. Bulk order information will be available.

October 23 Thursday at 6 – 8 pm: The Art of Organic Gardening at the Guyer Barn Gallery and Arts Center 250 South Street, Hyannis Ma. Park in the town parking lot on South Street.

 Jean Iverson will present slides of her garden and of Organic Gardening Members’ gardens from various tours. Jean will explain organic gardening principles and take questions. see http://town.barnstable.ma.us/GuyerBarn

NOVEMBER

November 20 Thursday at 6:00 pm: CCOG Joint Meeting with GreenCape at Wheldon Library Rt 149 W. Barnstable: GreenCAPE will show a short film on Pets and Lawn Pesticides at their annual meeting which will begin an hour (6:00 PM) before the CCOG. Our meeting is open to everyone and includes our annual election, business meeting, followed by the film which will start promptly at 6:30 and then merge with the CCOG meeting.

Speaker: Daphne Jochnick spent from Aug. 2006 through Sept. 2007 working with organic farmers in Tanzania, as a Sustainable Agriculture Fellow for Global Service Corps.

Her talk will include the following topics:
The connection between Sustainable Agriculture and the AIDS epidemic.
Why groups like GSC promote organics in Tanzania.