Upcoming Events:

·         Sustainable Stockton Meeting.  Please join us for our next meeting this Thursday, August 13, 2009, at 7 pm in the Town of Stockton Municipal Building.  June Meeting Minutes and the August 13 agenda are attached.

·         Coming up on the Sustainable Stockton schedule:

Ø  Fall tour of Hans Schabel property (Sept/Oct)

Ø  Updating Find It in Stockton Directory (Nov/Dec)

Ø  Film/Discussion Series (this winter)

Ø  Helping with the Town of Stockton park (adjacent to the Town Municipal Bldg.)

We’ll let you know the details and keep you posted with our latest information in the Town of Stockton Newsletter, Sustainable Stockton Website (sustainablestockton.org), and your Sustainable Stockton e-mail notices.

·         Local Garden Tours.  Portage County UW-Extension and Central Rivers Farmshed have been sponsoring a series of informative walks this summer touring some of Portage County’s private vegetable gardens on Tuesdays from        7 pm to 8 pm.  All are welcome to attend.  For more information, contact the Portage County UW-Extension Office at 346-1316. 

Garden Walks still yet to come, along with their hosts and locations, include: 

August 11 Melissa Rice, 736 Union Street, Stevens Point, WI

View this small urban garden, which includes square foot gardens and perennial/annual borders on the south side and raspberries, strawberries, herbs, and an apple tree. New this year, are a rain barrel and a vermi-composter.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          

August 25 Deb Aeby, 1941 Ridgewood Court, Plover, WI

This garden is comprised of four eight-foot raised beds encircled by a fence and surrounded by perennial beds. They are growing rhubarb, pole beans, spinach, tomatoes, peppers, onions, zucchini, broccoli and herbs. They compost and add this along with shredded leaves to the beds annually. They grow enough to feed their family of four.

September 15 Jen Zach, 1375 Bob White Lane, Stevens Point, WI

View a large vegetable garden, small fruits, an orchard with larger trees, too many flower and shrub beds to count—herbs, annuals and perennials. They use organic methods. They also raise chickens for meat and eggs and, this year, they have added two bee hives.

• Food Preservation Workshops.   Central Waters Farmshed, Interfaith Community for the Earth, UW Extension Service, and St. Paul’s United Methodist Church, Stevens Point, are sponsoring food preservation workshops this summer/fall.  Thanks to these sponsors all these educational workshops are open to the public and are free or at the minimal cost of materials.  For workshop details visit Central Waters Farmshed website at www.farmshed.org or call 592-4423 for more information.

Rootcellar Workshop

Tuesday Sept 8, 2009      7-8:30pm
Portage County Court House Annex, Rm #2
Ken Schroeder, UW Extension Agent
* Registration preferred – call 346-1316

   Sauerkraut, Kim Chee and Pickled Eggs Demo

Saturday September 19, 2009  1-3pm
St. Paul’s UMC, 600 Wilshire Blvd. St. Pt.
Jen Zach and Janis Borski, presenters

Applesauce Workshop

Saturday, October 10, 2009   9am-noon
St. Paul’s UMC, 600 Wilshire Blvd. St. Pt.
Make applesauce for your freezer.  Bring plastic
containers to hold 2-4 quarts of applesauce.
Cost of material donation.
*Registration preferred.  Call 592-4423   


Mozzarella Cheese Workshop
Sunday,  November  8, 2009   2-4pm
St. Paul’s UMC, 600 Wilshire Blvd. St. Pt.
Make mozzarella cheese and learn about making yogurt,
uttermilk and sour cream
Katrina Becker, Stoney Acre Farms, Athens, WI
Limit 15 people
* Registration required
Call 592-4423
$5 material cost

Enjoy the rest of the summer!   

--Sharon Reichert, Sustainable Stockton Secretary