La Casa Grande Colectiva

Tag: breakfast

  • neighborhood pancake breakfast

    Block By Block, a group of neighbors, organized a potluck style pancake breakfast this morning.  Before our house meeting, a few of us made it over for some delicious food, complete with maple syrup that was tapped from maple trees in the area.  I forgot to bring my nice camera, but I brought my phoneCAM.

    Community pancake breakfast

    It was great to meet and chat with so many neighbors at once.  I had some really great conversations, and we went home with a cucumber plant!
    Local syrup

    Block By Block Cooperation is a group of neighbors in unhistoric east urbana (the historic part starts north of Washington).  They are organizing people and raising awareness of local food issues.  Its really exciting to see such things happening only 2 blocks from La Casa.  There are so many projects that we can work together on.

    neighbor Sam tapped the local maple trees to make syrup for the pancake breakfast, thanks Sam!
    neighbor Sam tapped the local maple trees to make syrup for the pancake breakfast, how f-ing cool! It came out really delicious. what a treat, thanks Sam!

  • House Meeting, march 16, 2009

    I wouldn’t normally blog about a house meeting, but our meeting today was really enjoyable and I wanted to explain how we organize ourselves and stay informed.  We set aside an hour each week to discuss things of importance related to the house.  An agenda is made up on the spot as we begin by proposing what things need to be addressed.  We depend on whiteboard and dry erase technology to keep track of the meeting, and notes are taken with someone’s computer.  All notes get posted to our internal house wiki that contains a variety of things no one will ever see but us.

    House meeting, march 16, 2009

    Today’s meeting was beautiful.  Food was prepared and we ate outside on the pic-nic table.  Fresh eggs served from cast-iron, mmm, mmm, mmm.  We were short one housemate, Jacob, who was at a cybernetics conference in Washington.  We had a lot to talk about but the meeting went quickly and we were soon done and working in the garden.  With the warm weather and time-change I can sense that we no longer need to worry about seasonal depression.  I have a bit of a sunburn to prove it, too.