All righty. Good evening. This is the
July 29th uh work session meeting for
the Sopic Agricultural Commission. The
time is 7:05 p.m. Uh we do have a quorum
with myself, Zach Barnett, Vice Chair
Agenda Petro, Deb Humphrey, um Jessica
Parker, and on Zoom we have Bert Hansen.
Um,
I think that's the call to order. Uh, if
we can quickly
uh stand up for the pledge of
>> allegiance.
I to the flag of the United States of
America and to the republic for which it
stands, one nation under God,
indivisible, with liberty and justice
for all. Amen.
>> Please be seated. Bishop
Thank you.
Um, all right. Any public comments? I
believe we have Eningga Hoteling.
You like to come up?
>> Yes, sir.
» Good evening, everyone. Ingga Hoteling,
45 Klein Road,
and I've been assisting with Open Farm
Day since its fruition in 2023.
And I have some updates.
» Hi Enga.
>> Hey there, Bert.
>> Hey, Janice.
Just started.
[clears throat]
» And I'm I'm sorry. I'm having a lot of
trouble with my hip today. So, you're
going to see me squirming around trying
to get comfortable. Uh, your video is
actually not even on, so we won't see
it.
» Okay, then.
>> It's fine. I don't think I mean, we
don't need to see a squirm unless you
want us to. [laughter]
So, the first um piece of business that
I'd like to share with everyone is as of
today, I have raised $1,100
in contributions.
>> That's awesome.
>> And I am still waiting to hear back from
six other um businesses from the VCA
Animal Hospital. They have consistently
donated every year since 2023, $200.
And Courtney's been in surgery the past
couple of days. So, I've left her
messages, sent her emails. So, I'm
feeling very optimistic that that it's
going to come to fruition.
>> That's great.
>> Um, I got a new contribution this year.
Wally Computer Associates.
>> Nice.
>> Um, they donated um a hundred. I'm still
waiting to hear back from Stacy at
Wall-E Precision.
Uh Kong, the controller at WGI,
um Mark's Property,
Pioneer Valley Trading Company. I had to
send them a letter of intent, which I
ended up sending the letter that we had
crafted at one of our work sessions.
Okay.
>> So, they have that. And um I personally
know Jason Fiori and their family. So, I
put another little message out there
today. I'm looking for a donation. Um,
I'm waiting to hear back from All Power,
South Insurance,
uh, B&E Tool, and Beacon Bank. Uh,
Binkan Bank is going, which is used to
be the old Birkshire Bank, the old
Warren Roco back in the day.
>> Yeah.
>> Um, they have to go through a process
just like what Jill at Westfield Bank
did. Um, so they have to submit the
letter of intent to corporate and then
they come back. So, um, Giovani, who's
the branch manager here in Southwick,
has the letter and it's been forwarded.
So, once again, I'm feeling fairly
optimistic that probably by midweek next
week, um, we could have another
six to $700.
>> Oh, that's amazing.
>> Excellent. Awesome. So,
>> um, I did have a couple of these
individuals send u requested that they,
you know, as we had stated, the checks
being made out to the town of
Southwitten with the memo agricultural
commission open farm day donation.
>> That's right.
>> So, um, I've done these calls while I've
been at my office and I didn't have the
town hall address right off the tip of
my head.
>> So, I gave them my e, my personal PO box
here in Southwick. Okay. which once I
receive them, then I can coordinate
dropping them off at your home, Zach.
>> That way there, you all can just go
right to the town hall and give it to
them and just give them a little
reminder to put it in your account
>> because I know this select at that point
we um when they have I think the select
board has to um officially receive them
and then that's when it would go into
that account. So,
>> right. So, great. So once those start
trickling in, then I will make sure that
you receive those.
>> Great. Thank you. Great job. Thank you
so much.
>> Yeah, I was really pleased to see a few
new ones that I've noted on before that
have stepped up to the um up to the
plate. So that's going to be cool.
>> Thank you.
The second thing I wanted to share with
you is I know in the past we've put
these at the open farm day farms
>> at the tables. I have x amount left over
from last year.
>> Do you still want to do that this year?
And if so, then my company who is a
nonprofit
will volunteer our copier and we will
make copies of this so that we have
enough
>> to put at all. I'd say probably at least
wait 50
>> 50 of these at least at every farm at
the table.
>> That's great. And this is something that
we created.
>> I want to say it was actually Lissa
>> that created this because some of the
pieces were also provided by the Pioneer
Valley Planning Commission and the town
of Ammerst come.
>> Oh, interesting. Okay.
>> So, I wanted to know if you wanted this
for this year and if so, then I can make
copies at no charge.
>> Is there anything we need to update on
it?
>> Think so. The only thing I was looking
at is the second paragraph. Over 15
active farms and 1,600 acres. I don't
know if those specs are still accurate.
>> Sure.
>> I don't think we've lost any farms
really. Maybe.
>> And then I don't know if the news on
tonight that they're question six on the
ballot is going to be about setting up a
permanent conservation fund to preserve
land.
>> Oh, cool. So, I don't know. Put some
>> nice.
>> Yeah, we can't really get too political.
>> Political. Yeah,
>> we gota be careful with that.
>> Say that we're do that that's happening
without saying vote for it or is that
not I mean you've got a lot of
>> We can I think we can raise awareness.
>> Yeah.
>> Um I mean that's what we're here for,
right?
>> Yeah.
>> Is there any way we could put our 20
anniversary celebration banner on it
anywhere?
>> Do you have a copy of that? I have the
actual um
>> the graphic
>> like a graphic I can
>> that would be kind to me.
>> Okay.
>> To my email that you've been sending me
stuff to
>> and then I can have our graphic artist
>> Oh, cool. Okay.
>> put it on here.
>> That would be great.
>> And then I'll shoot you over a proof.
>> Okay.
>> To make sure you like what you see.
>> That'd be great.
>> And then I can go to town and make
copies.
>> Oh, that's awesome. Yeah, I have it on
um I added it to our um our annual
report and that's how I was able to get
it. I think um it was sent from Dan over
um because he made that banner. So um
I'll send it over to you as soon as I
get home. I'll put my shelf in the
>> Perfect. Thank you.
>> Quick legal size paper and add my stuff.
>> Well, it depends. Well, that's why I'm
presenting it to see what you folks
think because this is something that
we've utilized in 23, 24, and 25.
>> Yeah, I don't think we should stop doing
it, especially if you're willing to
donate it. So,
>> so do you want to add more content?
>> Um,
that's a lot.
>> Yeah, I think I don't know how many
people are actually reading this.
I know. I know. With at our farm what we
would do is we would make sure that they
walked out with one of these
>> and the information about the stables.
>> So, it was like two things, but whoever
the volunteers are at those farms are
going to have to make sure that when
somebody's cruising back
>> Yeah.
>> if they don't have a satchel or
something to put it in when they go to
the farm,
>> then you just want to make sure they're
handed out. Yeah.
>> So, like I said, this is all I had left
over.
>> Oh, that's true.
>> Remember having these at the
>> I don't think I don't think we had them.
>> That's an up.
>> I do remember it, but
>> I remember I think the first year, but I
don't think that we had them at our
place.
>> Yeah, we really didn't have anything to
hand out the last two years. I don't
think
>> we had the
>> the Oh, the passport, right?
>> Passport and the stickers.
>> The stickers. Yeah.
>> I think these are great. I remember
seeing it now.
>> Okay.
>> Yeah, it's a great idea.
>> So, as of right now, we'll look at about
500 copies.
>> Well, people aren't going to pick one up
at every farm if they've already got
one. So,
>> sure. That's true.
>> Yeah. I mean, there's probably every
kid's not going to want this. I would
say one per family.
>> So, I mean, I 250
>> 250 I think is probably the most we
would need.
>> Good thing is you can use them and
>> Yeah. long as nothing.
You can bring them to the meeting next
week.
>> Like the home buyer disclosure and all
that talked about before in the year.
>> Exactly. Yeah.
>> Okay. So, I'll wait for the banner.
>> Okay.
>> And then once I get that, I'll do a
shot of it and send it to you, Bert and
Zach.
>> Yep. Sure. Yep.
Thank you. Yeah, that's a great idea.
>> You see what we're talking about, right,
B?
>> I'll hold it up.
>> Yes. Right.
>> Yep. Yeah. The right to farm. Yeah. Got
it.
» Post this at my house because my guinea
hens are being very loud.
» I [laughter] mean, we live off the road
and away from people, but I'm sure they
can hear them. Anybody who lives even
close.
>> One of my neighbors used to have a
rooster.
>> We have two rooers.
>> I have two roosters. Luckily, it's the
quietest rooster I've ever had.
>> Do you have a muzzle on it?
>> I've tried the neck thing before. I have
a really loud one, but it barely worked.
>> So loud it didn't matter.
>> Yeah, I have two roosters, but I have
six guinea hen because we've gotten them
to try to take care of the tick issue.
We have such a massive
>> We haven't seen hardly any ticks in the
last couple months.
>> I've got wild turkeys. They take care of
mine.
>> Giant feathers.
>> Don't you love them on my turkey sign?
Um, okay. So, the next thing I wanted to
ask is what we've done in the past three
for the past three years is there's the
clipboard at every table for each of the
participants.
>> And I couldn't find my original proof.
All I could find was this mockup that I
had done. We had originally done it in
the past where we would have people code
it the first couple of years. I wanted
to know where the people were coming
from, where they heard about it, so I
could really look at what the price was
for advertising to determine is it
beneficial for us to feed. That's how we
get going into those areas.
>> I thought we were going to if they
voluntarily wanted to give us their
emails this year, we were gonna you're
going to do that, right? Um,
>> so you can tell them about, you know,
what farm day is coming up or something,
you know.
>> Yeah. Yeah,
>> do that. Maybe we could just put a form.
We could put a QR code.
>> That's a great idea.
>> Yeah. Last year, I know when I did it,
um, I did a thing where I I I was
curious on adult children, senior ratio
to see what
>> So, I just made a code of my own on it
when I was writing people in. And it was
interesting because I wanted I truly
wanted to see
>> the age categories we had and because I
was at Cowards in the morning and I
thought for sure it would be mostly kids
>> and it was not.
>> Right.
>> It was a lot of senior citizens, lots of you know
>> I would say anywhere from 50 on.
>> Mhm.
>> People who purchase products
>> and Yeah. age-wise. And I thought that
was really interesting because they were
taking the train rides at Cowards. They
were doing all the things. Oh yeah, but
it wasn't they had the stickers. They
>> Oh, the adults love the stickers more
than the kids.
>> But it was it was interesting to track
that and it might be it because that's
>> there's a lot of people coming in
though. It's hard to collect all that
data quickly before they disappear,
>> right? I mean, I just jotted it down. I
knew I would see people come in. I
welcome them. And then I'd quickly write
down approximate two seniors, two kids,
whatever, or you know, two adults and
two kids, however it was. as I would
write it down and it it just let me see
that it wasn't what I thought the
population would be being my first year
doing the farm day. Um I I just I was
kind of surprised by it because that
might be how we steer
what events people might be thinking of
doing at their farms or things they
might want to do is to the age
population that you're getting the most
of.
>> Kids aren't going to show up there
without parents.
No, but I really was surprised on how
many people were older.
>> Did I not do the code last year?
>> That's it, right? That's where the first
two years we did the one with the code
because I was tracking our expenses
going to advertise. So then last year
and like I said, this is all I have to
show.
>> Yeah.
>> Because
>> I can't find my original. So last year
we kept it really simple.
>> It was just the farm. Yeah,
>> there must still be copies of that in
the bags or something.
>> I just see I dismantled all of those.
>> Now you know this is what you're looking
for because I sent you some things, but
it wasn't this.
>> No, no, but I've got the mothership of
this.
>> Oh, okay. Oh, okay.
>> Yeah, I got to find the mothership.
>> Hey. Hey. And everybody remember last
year if people come and they already
have a passport, we weren't going to ask
them where they're from
>> and all. Right. That was a great
indication.
>> So, yeah. So last year we went with
strictly the farm, Bert's cell phone
number, and how many guests. That's all
that we tracked last year.
>> I think we should use my cell phone
number this year cuz
>> Well, that's my next question was whose
cell phone number do we want to
>> I think we should have two a backup one.
Um
>> last year I personally had trouble
getting a hold of Bert. So um I don't
>> Yeah, I did.
you were running around. I don't know.
>> I could not get a hold of you because we
had people. It was the whole dilemma at
um Blossoming Acres. There weren't any
volunteers there.
>> I couldn't get a hold of you. I called
you. I left you message. I think I
texted the group.
Um but I think we should have my number
on there.
I don't know if you want yours like
secondary bird or if you want it, Jen.
>> I can. Yeah, it's up to you. I don't
>> Well, it depends too on if because I had
told Jen if she wanted me to do any
running around or not be a stationary
person.
>> I think we need as many stationary
people as possible that are membersh.
>> Um,
>> absolutely.
>> To represent. Yeah.
>> Yeah. Especially the busier farms.
>> Yeah.
>> We need we need to make Lanita happy
this year. She was one of the people
that had issues with not enough
volunteers last year. So she needs a
minimum I think two in the morning, two
in the afternoon
>> at least.
>> Yeah, minimum.
>> And responsible individuals that are
that you know are going to show up.
>> So do you want to give me or Oh, I've
got your number and my phone. So I'll
put the your number on there and
>> Yeah,
>> I've got Jen's. Okay. So I'm going to
add those on here. And I sent you and I
sent the three of you earlier today a
revised volunteer information sheet.
>> Oh yeah.
>> That will go for the orientation that
you're hosting. And then we'll have I'm
going to make I think I'm going to make
them like in a green color so that on
each clipboard they've got these
>> so it kind of stands out.
>> So it stands out so that you've got the
safety protocol. You've got who to call.
>> I just put 413 and uh
>> I I didn't make a bunch of copies, so if
you want to pass that around,
>> but it's the same concept of what we've
done since 2023 that we use at the
orientation and always have right at the
desk just in case somebody has a
question.
>> So for that that document there, I'll
put both Zach and Jen's cell phone
number again.
>> Okay.
Maybe put them in bold, bigger letters
so that they know that I mean we could
explain it at the orientation, but
basically that's
>> Yeah. Not everyone shows up to the
orientation.
>> Exactly. Yeah. Right.
>> Just to highlight that those are the
numbers.
>> Yep.
>> And um I'll definitely make them bold,
but that's something too where
unfortunately this year I'm not going to
be able to participate at the farm. Um,
so I've got um Carol who's going to be
there in the morning
>> and I'm talking with Holly at Klein View
Stables Saturday at noon to coordinate
for each mothers.
>> Oh, beautiful.
>> Because I need parking because we're
parking in the field.
>> So, we need to have some engaging that.
And
>> it's going to be a nice hot dry day.
>> I did that last year. Yeah. Yeah. The
year before the year before.
>> Yeah. Pine view this year.
>> Yeah. going
to be the afternoon.
>> Perfect.
>> So, that's where um what Carol will do
is she'll pass on whatever information
that's important for you to be aware of
because I'm not going to be there all
day. I'm not going to be there at all.
So, um so that's
>> I don't think we're a little hiccup
>> the Dian Southic stuff. Don't I don't
know that we're really promoting them
this year.
>> So, okay. So, I'll take that out.
>> Yeah.
Um just we've had lack of uh
participation from them. So
>> Okay,
everyone's still here.
>> Yeah,
>> Greg is volunteering.
>> Greg's volunteering.
>> Uh he's going to be at um Blasph,
» right? Where's he going to be? Blasphemy
Acres with Martha.
>> Maybe he can have a sign.
>> We we have a couple signs.
>> Yeah, exactly. Yeah.
>> Oh, I'll mention that to him. He's We've
been
>> Yeah. We didn't like this year we didn't
involve any other departments or boards
or
>> um
interests.
>> We tried to though we're trying to get
volunteers down.
>> Okay. So I'll delete that from the
>> but yeah if he wants to have a sign
there that would be great. I do have
>> the year that we did include
>> um Greg and Marissa. Neither of them
volunteered.
I wrote that for also today.
>> Okay. So, I'll make that change.
>> Yeah, that's the problem.
>> Then I'll zip it over to you both for
approval and then once you give me the
AOK, then I'll make
>> probably a 100 copies.
>> Okay.
>> Yeah.
I think so.
>> 50 copies in green.
Okay.
And next on my list was the bins. But
Bert, I'll swing by your Juliet on
Friday at some point and pick up the
bin. It'll probably be closer between 5
and 6.
>> Okay, that's fine. Yeah.
>> And what I'll do is I'm going to put
together all of the bags
this weekend and then coordinate with
Jen to pick them up so she'll have them
for the orientation. Sure, that would be
great.
>> And handles out then.
And
I wanted to also bring to your attention
about the signs that we had talked about
for checkin here. Some of the feedback
last year was that there was confusion
where the guests were coming to
even though I thought the tables would
define it along with the tent.
didn't have many.
>> It depends where they park
>> farm. I guess
>> depends on the farm where they park how
they come in. Yeah.
>> So, so I'm So, I propose that we make a sign a regular 18 by it's 18 by 24.
Your typical lawn signs that is white
background going pretty much to our town
seal and the green lettering that the
top line is going to be check.
Second line is going to be in. third row
is or fir third line is going to be
here. So it's a standalone singlesided
sign
that you can put right by the table
saying check in here.
>> How many you thinking like 12 10?
>> 10 because each farm is going to have
10. Um
>> some the thing I was thinking about the
age sands some places have concrete like
um there's no like place to dig them in
to the
>> so those places we're probably going to
need
>> tape or something
>> like I'm thinking
>> doesn't work in a monsoon then
[laughter]
>> we found that out
>> we have had
neither do the pens remember. Yeah.
[laughter]
>> So, um I know I've got at least eight
Hooks. Those H they call them H stands.
>> Okay.
>> But for the ones that don't,
I'm not sure who those would be.
>> I'm thinking like I haven't been to
Malicious yet, but I don't
>> Malicious has plenty of dirt.
>> He does.
>> Yeah. I think it's actually Gravel
Drive.
>> You're referring to Sandville Scoop,
right?
>> Malicious we have this year. Oh,
Malicious and Grandpa Scoop is on there,
too. But they have it's a dirt drive
is up on the porch. Usually you
>> you check in on the porch. So,
>> you know, lower the stairs.
>> That would
say
>> keeping it right to the table would
probably be the best way anyway just
because you want them to look up a
little. They're probably looking up. Um,
>> so they have a railing, too. It could
just be attached to the railing.
>> Yeah, we could we'll figure it out.
Yeah.
>> Okay. So, do we want Well, I've not
[clears throat] heard back from
Spotlight after four calls.
>> Yeah. What's
>> Hello.
>> I've not heard back from Marie Rean, but
she's had a tragedy in her family. I
sent her another email earlier this
week. But Southwoods has given me a
price.
>> Okay.
>> And for 10
singlesided
full size 18 by 24
uh without the stakes $115.50.
>> How much?
>> $115.50
for 10 of them.
And it would be a three-day turnaround
time.
>> Oh, that's not bad.
>> We need them that big. that it's does
it's not going to behoove us to cut cut
them. It's going to be the same price.
>> Okay.
>> Yeah.
>> So,
>> you know, we we actually have 11 uh
farms this year, which is a pain in
terms of this.
>> Can we do 12? Just have an
>> Yeah, I can I'll call Martin tomorrow
and get a price for 12. I'd like to um
allocate the money now. So we can let me
just figure out the price.
>> Yeah. Take the 15.50 divide it by 10. So
>> I mean even if we're short like I don't
think at like points it would not really
be an issue.
>> Yeah. And the same thing at CR,
>> right?
>> Well like so you have the sunflowers on
one side and and so if
>> Oh they do. Okay.
>> Okay. So, you're allocating the money
for
>> allocate. I make a motion to uh allocate
up to $150 to Southwoods for check and
hear signs.
>> I second that motion.
>> Um roll call vote. Zach Bara I.
>> Jennifer Petro I.
>> Deb Humphrey I.
>> Louis Parker. I
>> Bert.
>> Oh, I'm sorry. I I I forgot that Janice
is not technically a member yet.
>> Bert Hansen. Hi.
>> All right. Unanimous.
>> All right. [laughter]
>> All right. So, you got $150. You got
$150 to play with.
>> Okay. So, it's not going to be that
much.
>> No, it's just
>> It won't be that much. But what I'll do
is I'll call Martin tomorrow request 12
>> and let him know to invoice you.
>> Yeah. The ad.
>> The Okay.
>> I think they have an account number.
>> Yeah. seems to be an issue every time
they do it. But
>> oh,
>> we eventually it always gets squared
away.
>> Just usually
» flower box flower shop guys.
>> I have not for a donation.
>> I can talk to them.
>> Anyone you know
>> we'll always take more money.
>> Sure.
>> I'll mention it. So I'll ask them do you
want to volunteer or donate?
>> Yes. [laughter]
>> You don't
see It wasn't one or the other.
>> Yeah. And the contributions when I
reached out to say Beacon Bank the other
day, I told them contributions we're
seeing a range between $50 and $500.
>> Okay.
>> So, it's whatever they feel comfortable
saying. Yes, here you go. Town of South
and care of the agricultural commission
for open farm day. So, the only other
thing I wanted to mention is when I
spoke to Scott at Tinneic Nursery, um,
he did recommend that we use his
property again this year for one of our
big signs.
>> And I said, so we can count,
>> the library.
>> Well, it's it's for sale, but it's still
owned. And because when I asked him last
year for the donation, I said, "Well,
what about your piece of property
>> because it gets such great visibility."
>> So, he's already agreed that once you
all start distributing the signs to put
one of the the signs there.
>> That's right. At the at the library.
>> Yeah. The little old library.
>> That's great.
>> So,
>> definitely. And we should start putting
out those big signs soon, right?
>> Probably a week before maybe.
>> Well, we did it a couple weeks last year
beforehand and we didn't lose a sign.
>> We didn't lose any. We had some I think
the nasty weather is gone, right?
>> Oh, [laughter]
great mind. Jessica, it is it is going
to be a gorgeous day that day. Yes. 70
degrees with light.
>> Yeah, that'd be nice.
>> Yeah. Well, mother nature and I have
already had a conversation. That's
crazy. That's good.
>> So, so just as a recap, um $1,100 so far
in defined definitions. I'll rework that
Southwick
um open farm day promo piece or um right
to farm promo piece. send you a proof
after you send me the banner and then
I'll make 250 of those on a um I
probably add a heavier stock paper and
the farm signin sheets. We're going to
add Zack
>> Jennifer's cell phones to that. for the
orientation for volunteers. We're going
to remove the line about the EDC dine in
Southwick sign D in Southwick QR code
signs
and
I'll talk to Martin tomorrow and get
those check in here signs rolling.
I think that's it.
>> That's a lot. Well, thank you so much.
>> Amazing. Thank you so much. Oh,
pleasure.
>> I need Oh. Oh, one more thing. Then I'll read to the meeting.
>> I like your stickers. [laughter]
>> I've ordered more.
>> Yeah, I was actually Those are great
stickers.
>> I've ordered more of those. Um, and that
would be part of my donation as well.
>> Thank you.
>> And advertising. I know in the past,
Bert, I've done the the purchasing of
well, not the purchasing, but the
placing the orders for the advertising.
Um, do you want me to still do that this
year or is somebody else going to take
care of that?
>> If you are uh able and willing, that
would be fine. Yeah. Um, I think I
copied you on an email I sent to um
Roxan
at the
>> Yes. You know, reminder and Westfield
News and all.
>> Um,
I don't know if do we want to go wider
than that publishing group?
I don't think we need to.
>> Yeah. Well, the first year we went
through Go Local, we hit the Reminder,
we hit a publication in Chipe, and then
obviously the Westfield. And our
advertising cost for 2023 was $1,229.
So, we only have a little over about two
and a half weeks until the actual event,
>> right?
>> Then,
>> do we have time to get things into all
these places?
>> Yeah. Then the year after that in 2024,
we did just the reminder publication and
the Westfield News, and that cost the
AdCom $1,07.
And then that was two years of me
tracking off of that first list where
people are coming from and heard how
they heard about it.
>> Then last year we only spent well excuse
me, you only spent $637
in advertising
and last year we had
1,533
guests
and the the first year we had 1552
guests. And the advertising cost was
virtually half.
>> Yeah. [clears throat]
>> Right.
>> So if we look at the data
>> of what we've done or excuse me, what
you've done the past three years, we
might want to just think or excuse me, I
get a little possessive. You might you
might want to think about just doing
what we did last year.
>> I think so. and maybe ramping up a
little bit more with the Tik Tok and
with the other social media platforms
that you used last year. And
>> a lot of a lot of people said it was
word of mouth.
>> Yeah. Someone in town, they knew someone
in town or they related to somebody in
town
>> and they heard about it and told them,
right?
>> That was a lot of the people that I
talked to. So nice to get like a WWLP or
Western Mass News like blurb on there.
One of their things too. I don't think
you have to pay for that
>> through Mass Live.
>> Maybe Mass Live or WWLP.
>> I always wondered because you know at
the weather guys sometimes um what's his
face? Um he'll he'll be up there and
he'll say he does a lot of promo for
Northampton like what's going on in
Northampton? Hello. There's things going
on in other towns. Well, like the Barn
Sessions thing at Don's farm
>> at Johnson.
>> Um, that got on the news.
>> Oh, did it?
>> See, that's the the be that's a great
plug if you can get it on just just when
they're talking about this weekend. And
you know, it's usually the weatherman
that's doing something and he'll say,
"Oh, it's going to be beautiful weather
and this is what's going on." You know,
he'll they advertise they say stuff
about road races and and you know, like
to get on this list.
>> I know. Oh, I don't know how to get the
asparagus festival. All kinds of stuff.
They and they just do a little
>> Yeah.
>> And to me, that is the like that's the
perfect way because that's about as much
as people want to pay attention.
>> Adam from Coastal.
>> It wasn't Adam. It's it's um
>> Lapis.
>> Yeah, Brian Lapis.
>> He's he always has and always mentions
what's going on in Northampton. I'm
guessing he's from that area maybe, but
because he always mentions that
specifically
>> is WWLP22.
Yes. Okay. Um, my best friend just
retired from 22.
>> Oh, wow.
>> So, I can put a call out to Judy
tonight.
>> And ask her to connect me.
>> Yeah. Like, how do you how do you get
that little blurb on there?
>> Yeah, that's all we need.
>> Um, if you're all in agreement to that,
I will do that on behalf of the adcom.
>> Yeah, we appreciate that. And I don't
know, probably maybe that Friday before
or something or like
>> should they say rain or shine?
Absolutely. [laughter]
>> Like closer to the
>> shine lizard.
>> Would they would they have it like say
it on Friday for that weekend or
>> don't know but I'll find out.
>> Okay. Wherever whenever they say it.
>> Yeah. Usually it's a few days before.
It's it's not too many days of ahead of
time when they actually say something.
But it's perfect because it's not people
need remember to do it on the weekend
>> because I know the first year remember B
we were on TV.
>> That's right.
channel 15.
>> On channel 15, we I even brought show
and tell with our cute little boxes.
That's very cool. So,
>> I wonder if I could pull that video up
and just put it on our Facebook page.
>> Work your magic, set [laughter]
>> because it was animated. We had fun.
>> Yeah. It's Ken Ken Stampsky, who's still
the guy, and he called it Ken Ken's Den.
>> Uh yeah.
>> And we just talked about what was gonna
happen. Yeah.
>> that was the first year.
>> First year.
>> Yeah.
So,
>> I think he did we did that back in July
of 23.
So,
>> pretty sure it's on YouTube.
>> Well, I think all this stuff gets
uploaded in YouTube.
>> Well, and as long as it gets made, you
know, on Facebook and makes it to the
whatever we have now, four, five, six
Southwick sites.
>> Yes. you know, if people can bump it
along and make it, you know, that's the
best thing.
>> That's the that's the ticker right
there.
>> Okay. Well, what I'll do tomorrow is
I'll reach out to the um my contacts
that I have in the past done all the
advertising with
and get a cost because I know right now
they do a lot of promos
and
yeah, I'm not going to go for that, but
I'll give you prices on that within the
next 48 hours Well,
>> we're not we're not going to have
another meeting that would approve
funds. Kind of need to do it now.
>> Last year we
>> as I said
>> I can give you an opportunity price.
>> Last year advertising cost was $637.
>> What do we have in our outreach?
>> Drum roll.
>> Oh, they just filled it. They just
filled it um with 2,000.
>> Not our not our supplies one.
the public outreach. It's only one now.
>> It's all one.
>> Okay. I thought there was two still.
>> Yeah. No, I emailed it to everybody.
They they put it all together and then
they um I write it down. I write
>> So, even the gift account? I [laughter]
>> The gift account is just a gift account.
I think that's where all the
contributions are going. But this is our
>> take it from the gift card account that
>> we could. Yeah,
>> I think we should.
>> Yeah. And leave this for something else.
But that's that's what we have right
now. That's the 2027. How much is the
gift account?
>> Oh, okay.
>> Just I don't want to over
>> We have We have a
>> I mean, they've worked their magic
before, but I'd rather not do that.
>> There it is. Okay.
» That's the gift account.
>> Yeah.
>> Okay. You think it may this plus maybe 6
or 700 more is going to go into the gift
account?
>> Yep.
>> So,
>> yeah, that's the contributions.
>> I think I didn't specify for the 150 for
Southwards.
I think I have to make an amendment
saying it should come from the gift
account
>> because I mean I think the money coming
in for farm day should be spent on farm
day.
>> Yep. I agree.
>> Uh I make a motion to amend my previous
motion. Um the $150 for Southwoods will
come from the gift account. Um
>> I second that motion.
>> All right. Zack Barnett I.
>> Jenna Peter I.
>> Deborah Humphrey I.
>> Jess Parker I.
>> Bird Hansen I. Beautiful. All right.
Now, I'm going make another motion
um
to allocate up to $800
um from the gift account for advertising
and various publications
and media outlets.
>> I second that motion.
>> Zach, I Jen Petro I. Deb Humphrey I
>> Parker I
>> B Hansen I
>> unanimous
>> thank you all right so 800
>> 150 for that and it
>> don't don't mind don't don't be worried
if you do because we have the money so
>> see you
[clears throat]
>> yeah I mean we couldn't have done that
without you sure so thank you very much
for reaching out to them
>> yeah and we'll ask obviously asked for
the best price possible because of who
we are.
>> And um were you thinking of wanting to
go a little bit bigger, Bert, opposed to
the size that we've done in the past,
which were the the two by four?
This is the ads that we've done in the
past.
>> Oh, yeah.
>> Yeah. Uh
whatever bang for your buck you can get,
I guess.
>> Yeah. Yeah. If we can within the 800.
Sure.
Okay. I know in the past they've also
some uh times Westfield gave me free
color
>> just definitely pops.
>> Yeah.
>> I like the yellow. Yellow and green.
>> Yep.
>> You have a listing with all the new
>> Are those the same?
>> Oh, no I don't because I didn't know
Malicious was part of
>> Malicious is on there.
>> Yeah, we should update. Salbridge is not
>> and we got Johnson farms farms and we
have the 4 helping with Pioneer Valley.
>> You all just send me a list tomorrow.
>> Yeah,
>> earlier today I I sent around a draft of
the passport and all the participants
are are in there.
>> So you could use that as a list if you
want.
>> You sent it to her.
>> I I didn't get
>> I sent to everybody.
Okay.
>> I emailed everybody.
>> I saw I saw the email.
>> Oh, yeah. It's right here. I see it.
>> Here's the list of where people are
going. But that's a list of farms.
>> You didn't send it to the adcom email.
[laughter]
>> Oh, true.
>> It's okay.
>> And it was like like 5:00 or something.
>> Yeah.
It was like five o'clock or
something.
>> I like the I like the color layout on
that. If they can do that for free,
that'd be great.
>> Okay. So, what I'll do is I'll use this
as a template, add these into it, and
obviously I'll get from Roxan and
whoever else I might work with a proof
>> for you all to proof it before it goes
into print because we're want probably
going to want the first one to hit the
week of the night, ethan.
>> Yeah, that would be great.
>> And then the following weekend as well.
>> That'll be great.
Okay. Any questions or concerns now
before I leave?
>> Invoices for those advertisements. Those
new at doing the finances and the
budgeting and working with the um so any
invoices they usually used to go to
Cindy. Now I think I would take them
right from wherever they're drafting the ads and
wherever they're going to charge. they might need to send it to me or send
it to the finance company at Southwood.
>> Yeah. What I what I have done in the
past with all the invoices
was it was very I've got them right here
from 2025. Not that I keep stuff like
this,
but for instance, the reminder
publication, it was to Southwork
Agricultural Commission 454 College
Highway South, Mass.
>> Okay.
>> So long as she gets a copy of it.
>> Okay. So they're going to send it
directly to you.
>> So they'll put it in the mailbox.
>> Yeah. So it'll show up here and you can
process it through that.
>> That's perfect. Yeah, that'll work.
>> And actually looking at this, this was
the only place we advertised last year
because that's our 637.
>> Wow.
>> Okay.
>> Yeah. If it goes in different places
>> or getting a little bigger.
>> Yeah.
>> And we've already had um
uh Dorian what? Southwoods.
Yeah,
>> I think that's coming out again.
>> Two two we've had two ads uh June and
July and also a story in July,
>> but we're out there already. I'm gonna
work on the Facebook stuff this week.
>> Yeah. And once you figure out where all
the signs are, I think they're down
there.
>> Um we can coordinate a
>> Yeah.
>> launch party and
>> take different quadrants of the town and
You had him at the Case Farm. Can we do
that again?
>> Right on Rising Corner.
>> Yeah,
>> that's a good spot for him.
>> Yeah, he was great to work with. I think
it was Babe.
>> Babe. Yeah,
>> Babe.
>> He doesn't want to join Open Farm Day.
>> No. And then I would I gave him Mrs.
Murphy's Donuts for letting us have that
real estate.
>> Oh, that's
>> awesome.
>> And then I think we did one at the
museum, right?
>> One at the museum, one at like um
McDonald's there.
>> Oh, yeah.
>> And then center of town, I think across
the street.
>> Yeah. On Filio's property. You can put
one there.
>> And then at the old library there,
>> we put one at Malicious.
>> Oh, we had one at Well, on farm day, we
had one at Tractor Supply.
>> Yeah, we also had one up at top of road.
>> Yeah.
>> Dave and Melissa's house. We had one
right there because it was that nice
straightaway. So, get a lot.
>> Yeah, we'll be able to do one there
again.
When I was at Calib, um the sign was
like like after the after Calib so
everybody would go past.
>> Yeah.
>> Um probably went out Malicious.
>> Yeah, I can ask him.
>> I gotta go talk to him anyways. Know
that um
>> he's got his sign that lights up too.
>> That would be that bring in more people
in the town area.
Oh, and the South uh transfer station,
>> right? So, that's
>> true. Easy handles that.
>> Yeah. You want me to do that again? I
can I can do that.
>> Yeah, that' be great.
>> To be positioned just perfectly. The sun
not
>> I mean, right now it's probably yelling
at everyone to get their new sticker,
but um [laughter]
taxes are due, I'm sure.
>> Our taxes are due very soon.
>> Um same.
>> Anything else for me before I
>> No, I think we're good.
Unless you got more for us.
Thank you very much so much.
>> Thank you for your time.
>> Met you Christian. [laughter]
>> Hi Christian.
>> He's helped out at the community garden
quite a bit. He's got a plot up there.
>> Yeah.
>> And a few plots now.
>> Excellent. So
>> yeah, he's he's joining. We're just
waiting on the select board to make
their appointments.
>> Okay.
>> Which might be this month, might be next
month. I don't know.
>> Then there's the whole hazing thing that
I haven't told you about.
at the
» app.
You could just let me know when you're
ready to have me pick them up and I'll
>> Oh, absolutely.
>> Thank you.
>> So, trans
>> not even the first line of the agenda.
>> Nope.
» [laughter]
» I think the rest of them we kind of
talked about
>> any more public comment. [laughter]
>> Thank you, Ena.
>> Okay, so we had um All right, we'll get
to that.
>> Okay, super stoked. It will not be the
same.
>> No.
>> Yeah. No,
>> she does so much for this event.
>> So,
>> we need to clone her.
>> Okay. So, um, coordinating the
orientation. We got the room, we got the
space,
>> we just need to make sure everybody
knows about it.
>> Yeah, we need to send emails.
>> Y,
>> I want to send calendar invites to
everyone.
>> Okay, perfect. Be smart. You're doing it
during the week and
>> Yeah. Uh, on um Yeah, instead of a
Saturday. I was thinking that's a little
bit better because it's the weekend.
Everybody wants the weekend to
>> So, it's on a Thursday. Um, it's at 7.
We're going to have refreshments.
>> Is it next week?
>> I don't know if anyone can ask Lenita to
see if she has
>> It's almost 6, right?
>> Oh, six. Did I say six?
>> It's six of the night or 13th.
>> It's the sixth on here.
>> Oh, yeah. August. Did I say
10th was that?
>> We No, we haven't reserved, so we're
good.
>> Yeah, the room is reserved.
>> We didn't have any scheduling conflicts.
Like, at least not yet. Sometimes the
night of they're like, "Can you move?"
But
>> yeah. Yep. [laughter]
it.
>> Um, yeah, we need some
>> this is
>> that's hope. Yes, that's what it's
reserved. Sometimes we get booted from
here, but
>> I was just going to have like um maybe
the breads that she had or something.
Maybe.
>> Yeah. Or I can probably get big to make
a donation. Um,
>> we have waters. [laughter]
>> Do we I was wondering about that. How
many have left?
>> I can bring Well, no, we we have a ton,
but we can I can bring another whole
pack, too.
>> Well, I can get you gift card for
[clears throat] that.
>> Okay. And then um what else should we
have for refreshments?
>> Is that seven?
>> Uh yeah.
>> Yeah. Seven.
>> Yeah.
>> I mean um
>> maybe cookies or something.
>> Yeah. Just like cookies. Nothing huge.
People don't really
>> like
>> I think a lot of people have a problem
eating in front of other people.
>> Yeah. Yeah. And we found that during the
fire
>> just like
>> usually by the end people,
>> you know, people feel they're a little
nervous that
>> Yeah. I don't want to make noise,
>> right?
>> I work.
>> So, maybe finger foods like the breads
or the cookies or something.
>> Yeah. Something quiet to quietly chewed,
I guess. [laughter]
>> Like, no thanks.
>> No carrots.
>> This is true. Yeah.
>> At 7 o'clock, probably. Just a few
things,
>> right? I wouldn't need to have very
much.
>> And I think uh
>> did we have coffee last year? Coffee is
very complicated.
>> Coffee it never gets drinken either.
And it's at night, too. I don't know if
>> Yeah,
>> we can get some um
>> maybe some like
>> and juice. Maybe
>> some night some sleepy time tea.
[laughter]
>> Some Most people drink water. Any place
I've been, it's amazing how many people
drink
>> these days they do.
>> Yeah,
>> I know. Years ago it wasn't, but it is
now.
>> Something with flavor like iced tea or
something.
>> Yeah. Like, you know, some beer.
[laughter]
>> Let's just have it at the brewery, you
know.
Yeah.
>> Funny to me. If you had cookies in
water, people are
>> honestly. Yeah. And they're fine. It's
just the water to wash down the cookies
if you eat too many.
>> Oh. Yeah. Exactly. Okay. That sounds
good. And so,
>> uh, we want to ask Lenita. Did we say?
>> Yeah,
>> we can ask her or and I can get a big Y
donation.
>> Okay.
>> Um, I don't think we need to spend.
>> Yeah, I'll ask Lenita if you if you
want.
>> Yeah, absolutely.
>> Great. Yeah.
Thank you.
>> It doesn't need to be much,
>> right?
>> We end up bringing stuff home or
throwing it out. So,
>> yeah.
>> Just a little something to offer.
>> Yeah. I wonder if Dan's going to make
soup again this year.
>> Oh, [laughter]
>> yeah. I don't think we need him for
this. For the farmers forum. Sure. Yeah.
I mean, when it's nice and cold out and
we have a huge room full of people.
Sure. Um I don't know where Dan is. He
didn't show up tonight. Well, I think
too, I mean, if you estimate
approximately how many volunteers are
even coming,
>> yeah, we need to ask them to like RSVP,
I think. You know, we need to get
interaction.
>> Need them to have more than two cookies
a piece or something. You're not eating
them per
>> No.
>> Yeah.
>> Well, you got 11 farms. If you had three
people for each farm, that would be
>> Yeah.
Maybe three dozen cookies. And
>> cookies are if there's like a healthier
version of a cookie. Well, there are,
but cookies aren't the worst thing in
their life.
>> No, they're not. Some people don't like
to eat after like 7 o'clock, 8 o'clock.
>> Well, I know Martha responded already to
me. She's going to be there. Um,
>> my friend Ashley said she'll come.
>> Okay. Greg not is not able to be, but
he's definitely dedicated to
>> Okay. Greg Dilly.
>> Yep. Okay. Yep.
>> And him and Martha know each other, so
Yep. They are part of the um hikers.
>> Oh, okay.
>> Um Hilltop hikers, I think.
>> But yeah, so I think that's about it. I
mean, I will I will reddraft all of the
information, put it on a you us um what
a little drive thing and then
>> Yeah, we'll just play it here. Y
>> Okay.
>> Now, do we have to put that as a live
thing or No. Right.
>> We're not No, that's not even
>> have to do that, right?
>> It's not even an official. This is our
little thing.
>> Well, if we have a quorum, I don't know
how that works
>> cuz we
>> Well, well, if we're not, you know,
quote unquote doing business,
>> right? If we're just there as volunteer
as volunteers,
>> we're not voting on anything.
>> It's an event, you know.
>> Yeah. I mean, it's been Yeah, the event
was created during a regular
meeting, so I think that kind of makes
it official.
>> I can send them the agenda because we
will have one
if you want to. We've never had to
[clears throat] do that before.
>> Yeah, I don't think we've ever done that
before.
>> Yeah, they always been at the fire
station.
>> Yeah, and it's in person only. We're not
going to do Zoom. We could, but
>> will we even have a forum? Honestly,
>> I don't know.
>> We probably haven't. I haven't made it
to an orientation yet. I mean, I I can,
but I'm just saying if you need me to
not come also, I can do.
>> We would love to have you. [laughter]
I'm saying if that's what's going to
take
>> we have anyone for the afternoon at um
Arnold's farm.
>> Yeah, I wonder what's that.
>> Um so that we were going to get to the
people.
>> Um yeah, so we have Deb taking over
now that day. So that's the problem.
>> What about Josh?
>> And yeah, he's probably be working. He
probably won't even make it to the
birthday party.
>> He goes up for like a half an hour.
>> Um yeah, it all depends where he is. But
>> do we still need a few more volunteers?
>> Yes.
>> Yeah, definitely. Yeah,
>> like the morning I can it's fine. I can
handle the morning. Um
>> I mean,
>> and then
>> Karen's fine by her.
>> That's what I was going to say. I mean,
I can talk to Karen and like I think
she'd be fine if you know she's alone in
the afternoon.
>> She says whole family's always hanging.
>> Yeah, I think I I don't want to like
spring it on her. I want to at least be
like, "Hey, if if this ends up
happening,
>> I mean, I would love
>> Can you hold down the fort?" Perhaps
>> tell her to join egg. I mentioned
>> I have um Albert I have Albert there for
the morning. I don't know if he's there
for all day. Um so
>> well I think worst case scenario I
that's why I think we should talk to
Karen and ask you know like worst case
scenario can you hold down the floor for
us from the one to
>> three really block.
>> But then
>> but Dwight definitely needs if Deb's
going to be there in the afternoon
that's fine but he'll definitely need
someone that
>> are you only there in the afternoon? I
don't know where I am yet.
>> Is she anywhere in the morning?
>> No. No. Because we have
>> a full day or no.
>> So, if she's in the morning, if you want
to do Blossoming Acres and then head
over to because we still we only have
two people at Blossoming.
>> We need We need two people in the
afternoon.
>> B's trying to say something. So,
>> sorry.
>> Um just you were asking about Al Rancho.
He only wants to do one shift.
>> Yeah. Morning or afternoon? Yeah.
Morning.
>> Morning. Yep. Okay. Yep. So, we have him
at the sun uh sunflower field.
>> He'd probably be better suited on
>> Do you want him somewhere else like
that?
>> Oh, on Dwight's side.
>> Okay.
>> So, with Jessica?
>> With Jessica? Yeah.
>> Okay.
>> We've got no one at Sunflower.
>> Um Yeah, but you could walk over there.
>> Just float between the two.
>> Yeah. I mean, she she just pretty much
gives people reaction.
>> She wasn't there in the morning. Like,
she didn't come till like
>> Okay.
>> She came and like stocked the flowers
and then she went for a little bit and
then she came back right.
>> Ideally, I'd like a minimum of two
people in every shift.
>> Yeah. Right.
>> Right now, everybody's in the morning.
Um, a lot of people said morning shift.
Um, so, um, if you you guys are you able
to do the coward farms or
>> um, I can. Diana, unfortunately.
>> Oh, she won't be able. Okay. I'm sorry.
I put your wife's I didn't know her
name. What is her name?
>> It's okay. Diana.
>> Diana. Okay. I'm put that in there.
Sorry about
>> Can we just like go through line by line
real quick and just talk about like what
>> she's not Yeah, she's not. She's so
>> next.
>> Yep. [laughter]
Well, I'm writing it down so I know her
name.
>> Doesn't really handle it. It, you know,
it was not hard of cowards. You're on
the porch, you know, and people came in.
They were there.
A lot of them were there right away
because they wanted the train ride with
the kids.
>> So, they started there, but um I didn't
in any way by myself feel overloaded
there. It wasn't.
>> So, you could do a full day there need
be. Uh
>> okay. But I mean, I brought a chair, a
nice comfy chair in the table, and
you're sitting on the on their porch,
which is
>> that place is really cool.
>> Lovely. And
>> yeah, it was not
>> I think they're doing the train ride,
too.
>> Yeah. Okay.
>> Yeah,
>> because they have a lot of workers that they have their own people that
take care of so much. You just are
basically a greeter.
>> You greet them, you know, have give out
the stickers, whatever. But everybody
else, I just show pointed them to where
the the train ride was and they were
fine. They usually had at least four or
five of their t-shirt people there.
>> I suggest bringing a lunch with you.
>> Yeah,
>> I usually do.
>> And uh another quick note on cowards. Um
I'd like to put the three 4 programs
also on their porch.
>> You know, be undercover. There's plenty
of room there. It's about 8 ft by 24
feet. So even if they wanted three
separate tables, you know, they could.
>> So the 4 people are going to be there.
>> Uh not confirmed yet. I uh I texted
Teresa Coward to ask about it and I
emailed uh Mike Patrusa to to see what
he thought and he I think he'll be fine
with it because it's undercover.
>> Okay.
>> So anyway, I'll let you know ASAP.
So, um, that's different than the HCIL
booth, right? Or is that together?
>> That's together.
>> Okay. So, the 4 and the HCI booth will
be together, but not with Mike and Sue,
>> right? They're going to be away, but
Mike has uh said he would get
volunteers.
>> Okay. And
>> any confirmation ASAP?
>> You want Powers Farms?
>> I thought originally they were going to
Solex.
Hang on a sec.
» I'm not sure why, but I always thought
they were at the museum. I
>> think originally last year they were
supposed to be hil
>> museum. Okay.
>> But I don't think anyone showed up.
>> Right. Okay.
I did run into Pat Odor the other day.
She said she was because I said, "Oh,
you're going to be at the museum on your
farm day." Oh, yes.
>> Okay.
>> So, we still need somebody for
>> We don't necessarily need a volunteer
there, do we?
>> I don't think I mean she's there for the
historical society.
>> Cuz she said, "Oh, yes. I always do
that." I'm like, "Okay."
>> We should have some [clears throat] She
came up to me. We
>> One person should be there, I think.
Right. With a table and everything.
>> Yeah.
I don't know who they are.
[clears throat]
>> Remember I I just heard from Deb Harath
who said she has a quote few friends who
want to volunteer. So hopefully that
>> Oh, they need to.
>> That's great.
» Um I mean if if they don't do the
website, we can do it manually for them
if you can just get their information.
Yeah, I sent her the I sent her the
link, you know, to the page where the form is.
>> So,
>> she's going to send it around.
>> Okay. I haven't seen anything come in
yet.
>> That's great.
>> And Sage has actually been really good
about like emailing me instantly when
someone submits a form because it still
goes all to his email.
Um, we do need we need to take care of
our website sooner than later, but not
tonight.
>> Yeah. [laughter]
Can I just have a recommendation? If we
go through this line by line and just
point out exactly what we need, then we
could post it. I think people are afraid
to just like sign up. You know what I'm
saying? If we say we need two people at
Blossoming Acres from 12:34, we need or
you know, from these we might get a
little bit more
>> people. Yeah, we might. you know, rather
than people just being like, I don't
know what I'm blindly
>> next couple days after hopefully a
couple more people sign up. If you do
that, I can put it in Facebook
>> Facebook and we could
>> Yeah, that would be great.
>> We can like outreach on our own.
>> So, right now we have we have three
separate Facebook
>> and I was trying to copy and you saw how
I was like posting the event and
reposting it and
>> no, the main our main one now I've added
like hundreds if not thousands of
friends to it.
>> I did too. I went for my entire I
blasted my entire friends list.
>> I mean, we're getting people from like
everyone,
>> not even the state. Yep. Same.
>> There's been a few scammer accounts that
have joined that I've had to block, but
um for the most part, it seems like it's
mostly people from the general area.
>> Um and then some lady from Michigan
who's trying to give away her Powerball
winnings. [laughter]
» Okay, so let's go.
>> It's hard to manage. It's very hard to
manage the events because those pages
are not
>> Yeah.
>> set up right.
>> Quick quick thing on Facebook. So, Zach,
if you're if we're if somebody were to
search for
what I'll call our good Facebook page,
what what would they look for?
>> So, the thing is one of them's like a
regular personal account like yours or
mine. And then there's also like the
like page. Um, one of them has a picture
of a tractor in a barn and one of them
has a sunflower. Either one of those is
fine.
>> Oh, okay.
>> I think we're going to share between the
two to c capture as many people as
possible.
>> Um, with the like page, people actually
have to like click like, but as like the
regular page, I've reached out to, you
know, I've added hundreds of people as
friends. So, it it the notification
comes to them instead of them having to
come to us.
>> Yeah. Okay. Then then if we create an
event or we create a post, we just just
have to make it public and then we can
share it to everything. We can share it
to our other pages. We can share it to
like the Southwick forums, all that
stuff.
>> Yeah.
Okay, good.
>> But yeah, we're definitely we can be
seen by a lot of people at this point on
through Facebook.
» Yeah, I've been getting more I've been
getting like it pops right up now.
>> Yeah. And every time like one of the
local farms like like um Blossoming
Acres or um
>> Firefly gets
>> Firefly and um even Calibri, I'm I'm
reposting all their stuff so people are
seeing that. We're getting a little bit
of interaction at this point.
>> That's awesome.
>> So, do you want to go through the list
right now really quick and um that way I
can get it right um and then we can see
where our needs are. Yeah. I mean,
clearly we need more afternoon people.
>> I think I gave you a copy.
>> Yeah.
>> Okay. So, um Martha and Greg um are
going to be at Blossom Acres
>> just in the morning.
>> Um well, I believe they're all day. Um I
got to confirm. They're they're
committed for the day. Okay.
>> So, I figured I'd keep them together
since they know each other.
>> They can be there all day. That's
beautiful. If we get like a third person
just to kind
>> That would be nice. They're doing a hay
ride there, too. Um, yeah, cuz she says
she was the one that had probably the
most concerns from last year,
>> of course. Yeah.
>> And if we go through this and you see, I
mean, we have other people that we could
probably move around. So, so Christian,
you're okay with doing cowards farms?
>> We might be able to get you a couple for
age people hopefully.
>> Yep. Yeah. Okay, cool. Thank you.
>> Um, Dwight,
>> so um Albert will be with Jessica,
right? So, I'm moving him
>> and Deb,
>> he all day if possible. So we have three
people for that area because these are
tied together.
>> Okay. Yeah. So you want to do that be
between Dwight and
>> Yeah. I mean you can float I mean sure
you'd like to you're going to love to
hear what Dwight has to say but you're
also going to want to float over to
Karen
>> and I'll talk to Karen and just say like
hey we might be short in the afternoon.
That way when I leave in the afternoon
>> usually by the afternoon
>> to go over to Dwight's and she could
probably cover
>> usually by the afternoon though things
kind of calm down and it's just kind of
like repetition at that point. Yeah,
because Al Albert is only for the
morning.
>> Yeah, if we can get one more person for
there um for the afternoon when Jessica
has to leave, that'd be great.
>> Okay, so Fireflies is also a um Hi.
>> Yeah, we need
>> Lonnie and she all day or is she just
morning?
>> Lonnie is just morning. Okay. Um Ashley
is all day.
>> Yeah, I'm hoping Ashley can she's got a
lot of friends and family. I'm hoping
she can wrangle one or two.
>> So, we'll leave it like that for now.
>> Yeah. Yeah. I mean, if you We have
people to place. Let's
>> We do have more. Uh, well, we have one
more down at the bottom. Um, so you and
Ashley, how do you spell Duplo?
>> Uh, deploy. Yeah.
>> Is she all day?
>> She'll be with me all day. It's D E B L
O I S.
>> Okay. So, all day and then D O B.
>> Oh, what is it?
>> D E O E.
>> I don't know why I did that. Okay.
>> Deal.
>> Sorry.
Okay. Um, all right. So, that's covered.
Klein View has um So, Eningga has um
coverage in the morning and then Janice,
you're going to be there in the
afternoon time,
>> but you could do all day if need be.
>> No.
Okay. This afternoon.
>> That's okay. Um, so Carol's going to be
there in the morning.
>> And you've been there before?
>> Yes, I have.
>> You think one person in morning and
afternoon is enough? Um well it's it
will get people whether it's raining or
not because they got set indoor rink.
>> When I was there last time there were
three people that was really too much.
>> Okay.
>> I think one person could handle it.
>> And they have like some 4 people to help
there too. Correct.
>> Yeah.
>> I think that's
moms.
>> Moms to help the parking.
>> Just I would pen in there like 4 moms.
>> In fact the one directing the tracking.
>> Yeah. She won't start.
>> She's not going to be there.
>> Yeah. And we uh Okay, Janice. Janice,
you're all all also on Blossoming Acres
in the afternoon.
>> Oh, top of the page.
>> No, not me.
>> Oh, no.
>> I changed it.
>> Oh, you don't have the new list.
>> Sorry, Bert.
>> Bert. Sorry.
>> I didn't send you the new list. I
apologize.
>> No worries. So, um, yeah, I took her off
the Blossoming Acres and put her on
because I made that mistake.
>> We've never really needed a floater
before.
>> Yeah,
>> I pictures. We don't get enough pictures
because we're all busy at the table.
>> My wife takes a lot of pictures.
>> Okay.
>> She tries to make it to most of the
farms.
>> Okay.
>> Whenever
us
years I was I was the floater and nobody
asked me for anything. No, I think once
we get going, we're pretty good.
>> Yeah.
>> If there's gonna be any emergencies,
it's going to be in the morning.
>> True.
>> Like any logistical emergencies. I mean,
emergencies can happen at any time, but
um
>> So, I'm at Malicious. I don't think I
need anything.
>> I think me and you, we have to go
somewhere we could figure it out between
us.
>> And so, Dan's at Solex.
>> Yeah, he'll be there all day. I think
that's all he needs there. But there was
talk about having 4 people at Solex.
>> Oh, okay. But yeah,
>> I don't know.
that they need to be at
Solex.
>> That's that's what Mike Patrusa
originally said that he had somebody at
Solex as a volunteer. I don't know who
that is,
>> but I think I think Cowards would be
much much better for them.
>> Yeah.
[clears throat]
>> Um and Jen Jen, just back a bit. Didn't
uh didn't micious say they only need one
volunteer.
>> Yeah. Yep.
>> Yeah. Okay. Yeah.
>> Yeah. I'll be there all day.
Um,
they got uh what is that? Corn corn
flavored ice cream.
>> Something like that. Yeah. Sweet corn
ice cream or something?
>> Sweet corn ice cream.
>> Oh, [laughter] from the big from the big
>> I'll be eating ice cream all day.
[laughter]
>> And your car will run on it, too.
>> No. Does anybody have any contacts for
Bside Farms?
>> Uh, just Tom. I can get a hold of Tom.
>> Yeah, just ask him if
>> he's all set.
So, him and his family is
good. Okay.
>> So by himself,
>> I think so.
>> And then
>> that's all it's ever been is Dan. He
knows he knows all the so
he handles it.
>> The history museum. I have two people
and we don't need two people there. So
that's where our actual person is.
>> Um
>> can they both
>> are they both morning people?
>> Um I believe so. Yes.
>> So let's move one of them around.
>> Okay. So
>> or see if one of them could do afternoon
instead.
>> We could. But for now, um, let's see. A
warning.
>> Um, you needed somebody extra.
Fireflies, right?
>> Yeah.
Um, Lee Hazelton is a friend of mine. I
could ask her if she would move to
afternoon.
>> Oh, that would be great.
>> Yeah. Yeah, that'd be great if you could
ask.
>> Afternoon at Boston.
>> No. Or history.
>> Oh, at history.
>> Yeah. One of the uh We need someone in
afternoon.
>> Well, I have Nancy at the history
museum.
Or can she do all day?
>> Um, no. Yeah, that's right. Yeah.
>> So, let's move Lee to afternoon if
possible.
>> Okay. Yeah, if she's available
afternoon. Um,
yeah. And B, you and Juliet are okay at
grandma?
>> Yeah, that's fine. Yeah. All day.
>> Okay.
>> Yeah. Yep. That's okay.
>> Perfect. Okay.
>> Your hips gonna be able to make it?
Yeah. Geez. We know. So,
>> okay. So, that's that's what we have.
So, we need um
another person at Blossom Blossoming.
Another person at Fireflies
>> and
an afternoon at Firefly. Afternoon at
Blossoming for We need like two at
Boston. After
>> we need two in the morning, two in the
afternoon minimum. So, it's really we
need to make her happy this year. Yep.
So, whoever comes in next, we'll just
place there.
>> Okay.
>> Um and then we'll need um
firefight fields, you know. Um
>> should we ask um Sage?
>> I've asked Sage multiple times. He has
not committed.
>> Okay.
>> He he he wants to do the farms with his
kids this year. I think
>> he's never been able to.
>> Yeah. Okay. Well, that's that's good.
I can ask my husband, but he's not going
to be able to stay because of his dad.
>> He sit okay or no,
>> can he just sit?
>> He could sit. Yeah, if I get him a
comfortable chair. Um, but I'll ask him
to see if he can do the morning
>> since Ashley will be there at the end.
Um, there's parking issues there, too,
right?
>> Yeah, they were parking down at the
whatever the restaurant is now.
>> Oh, and walking all that. Okay.
>> I think so.
>> Wow. Yeah. I don't know if we can do
that this year, though.
>> Yeah.
>> Oh, we got permission last time.
>> I think so.
>> Yeah.
Um
I don't have Jen's information.
» Yeah, cuz that that was that's
somebody's property there right at the
end of her street.
>> Yeah. I mean, I think the guy with the
baseball bat's gone, though.
>> Yeah, I think. Yeah, that came out with
the baseball bat. I think he's my
landscaper now, though.
>> Wow. [laughter]
>> He's your landscaper,
>> Joe.
>> I think he's my landscaper now.
>> I never saw that.
>> He moved. Yeah, [laughter]
there was two Joe's that live there and
they're both landscapers.
[laughter] So,
>> yeah,
open farm day is a little little risky.
>> That's why we have orientation to prep
everybody. [laughter]
So, okay,
>> we're padding. So, my helmet,
>> if Lee could do the afternoon, that
would be great. We can move her there
um at the history museum. And then
that's pretty much it. We got coverage
for everything else, which is great.
Couple more volunteers and we'll be
perfect.
» That's assuming everyone here shows up.
>> Yes. Yep. And we got to get that
communication going.
And
>> how many 4 people were there total? Do
you know, Bert?
Uh, I I don't know yet. [clears throat]
>> Okay.
Next thing is
>> three separate programs. So, I'm
assuming it'll be one one each.
>> Okay.
>> At least one each.
» So, I mean, it can be spread out three
separate programs with three separate
farms. That would be ideal.
>> Oh,
okay.
» Yeah, that would be helpful. Yeah,
especially afternoon.
>> Yeah,
>> if they could promote their own
programs.
>> Yeah, but they they're going to promote
their own stuff, but they they're also
going to help us uh kind of a co-op type
of things.
>> So, can we go through the list again? Um
with tables and tents if we if needed.
>> Yeah, tables and tents.
>> So, I have two tables that I can
>> Which firms need them? I think that's
question. So, let's So, Blossom Acres
needs one,
>> right? She has them.
>> She has tents.
>> She has tables and tents.
>> She has everything.
>> Okay. So, we don't have to worry about
them. Howard, we need
>> She She can actually donate them to
other farms if need be.
>> Oh, cool.
>> But you have you have a tent for
animals.
>> I have a tent for animals. Yeah.
>> Okay. And what about for the sunflowers?
Oh, she has
>> that's already got one.
>> So, we just bring our own chairs.
>> I just need a table for Dwight. I don't
have a table.
>> Okay. I can bring a table.
>> Yeah, I I have two tables. Um I'm I'm
gonna need one. I have a 10 I can bring
for um Johnson Brookke.
>> I don't remember what we used under
we used the tape Karen's table last year
or if we use this I'm I think I might
have a smaller table that
>> I don't think there was much.
>> I can't remember. I definitely had a
table.
>> I have all different size tables.
>> There were plenty of tables. Try to
figure out which
>> I have like midsize. I have sixfooters
like three of those.
>> Nice.
>> That's how we do holidays. I pull out
all the plastic tables and cover them
with tablecloth.
>> Yeah. So,
>> yeah, I have two tables and two tents,
too, if anyone needs them. Um,
>> she has the
>> I have I have the easy.
>> Okay. So, I'll just bring a table.
>> Just one at Arnold's.
>> I'll double check with Karen. I don't
know what's under that under the
overhang here.
>> Maybe just bring two.
>> You don't have to set it up necessarily.
>> Yeah.
>> I mean, at Arnold's last year, we had
two tents through tables.
>> Um, just because it gets real hot there.
It's nice to have extra shade. Mhm.
>> Um,
>> what what about cowards? We need a
table.
>> You just need a table because they're on
the porch.
>> Okay.
>> Table.
>> and a chair.
>> Most everybody needs camping chairs. If
you have
>> chairs,
>> camping chairs, lunches, drinks,
whatever.
>> Um, and then, okay, Firefly Fields. She
has a um Did we set up a tent there or
she already has one?
>> I have no idea what
>> she had a tent there and a table. She's
usually pretty good. I could check with
her.
>> Okay.
um
if see what she needs and then we'll
>> I was going to say I think she would
have it with her business.
>> Yeah, exactly. Um so I'll check with
>> Yeah, I don't remember Sage having to
bring anything there.
>> Okay. Yeah, cuz I I they had table set
up when I went there last time and
>> Yeah, she got a lot of stuff going on.
So
>> yeah.
Well, um,
[clears throat]
tables and tents, maybe one tent. I'll
ask her. Um, okay. Johnson Brook, you're
also with that, right?
>> Table.
>> Klein view. What do they They usually
have a tent and a table.
>> Yeah. I think it's I think
[clears throat] it's Inga's tent.
>> Oh,
>> she's not going to be around, so I don't
know if we're going to have access to
it.
>> Tent and table.
>> Yeah. Of course, we have a question for
after she leaves. [laughter]
>> Okay, so they need that. Um, I have a
table for myself. I don't know if I need
>> There's plenty of tables there. You
might be able to set up on one of their
picnic tables.
>> I'm going to go there and ask. Uh,
>> okay. If you're going there anyway.
>> Okay. Um, so Dan's all set. You think he
needs a tent table?
>> He's never needed anything in the past.
I think he should be all set.
>> Okay. Um, I'll put a question mark. Uh,
Bside, they're all set then.
>> They don't even need us.
>> The museum. We need a table.
>> We should probably get Tom these sheets
or whatever. We need to get him a bag
and
>> Oh, and stuff.
>> Yep.
>> Um, and new signs and whatever,
but I can reach out to Tom anytime.
>> Okay, cool.
>> He's pretty good at responding.
>> And then, yeah, the history museum. They
need a tent and a table, right? Or a
table.
>> They need a tent and table.
Um, and Grandpa, you guys do too, right?
>> Yeah, I have a tent and a table. So,
we're
>> Where do you Where do you set up up
there?
[clears throat]
>> Just kind of That's right.
>> There's a couple of picnic tables out
there at [clears throat] a sort of a
corner of the building.
>> As you're Okay.
>> As you're coming in, you turn left to
park. And so, like right there. Yeah.
>> Okay.
So, you'll need a table.
>> No, we have one.
>> You have them. All right. So,
>> so we're all set there.
>> Check.
>> Okay. Can we set these things up the day
before?
>> I prefer I mean it only takes me 10
minutes to set everything up. Um
>> Okay.
>> If there's bad weather, you don't want
them flying away.
>> Sure.
>> Into the road.
>> It's nice. I'm going to put the tent up.
Yeah. Yeah.
additional.
>> Okay, so that that solves that. Okay,
that's one more thing off the agenda.
Um, and signs, we already kind of talked
about that, right?
>> Yeah, we'll put the signs up.
>> We can bring that up again at the
orientation as well.
>> Sure.
>> Actually, at that point, we'll be
probably taking them out of the shed.
>> And then we talked about Ena as a
contributor budget. And then the floater
photographer. Um, guess we all take our
own photos.
>> Take our own photos. My wife's going to
take photos. I'll
>> step it up this year more.
>> Perfect. You've got to make it to all
the farm.
>> Most of them anyway. Yeah.
>> I did remember seeing her at cow chest
the last fair, but yeah. So, okay.
>> Yeah, she takes the kids.
>> That's it for the agenda.
>> Sister,
[clears throat]
>> anything else that anybody has questions
on?
>> Yeah. Hey, it's not on the agenda, but
um I sent you guys um a draft passport
and
>> Oh, yeah.
>> It also includes a new logo.
>> So, I like the logo. I don't love it. Um
>> yeah, I don't I don't like that it's I
mean, they're picking up on the town
seal or logo or whatever, which is fine.
>> I like that part, but why is all the
black around the far around the barn?
Yeah, that's because um
>> is that supposed to be in the shape of
Southwick? Because it's not the shape of
Southwick.
>> Yes, it is. [clears throat] And that was
>> that is one that is one large notch.
[laughter]
>> Yeah. Uh that's a version because I said
on the there's one version with where
there it's blue sky over the barn.
>> Yeah.
>> And the the borderline of the town is
just kind of through the sky and it's
like what's that? What is that? And the
tra and the tractor is just kind of like
placed on top of the image. It doesn't
like really incorporate into it.
>> Yeah,
>> it's it's a good concept. I don't think
it's executed very well, like perfectly.
>> Should you use like an old farmal
tractor?
>> Well, I was going to say the tractor
does not match.
>> It's too It's too AI.
>> I think we should get Dwight's old
tractor parked in front of his barn and
get an actual
>> My tractor.
>> Well, why don't we just get an actual
photo
>> tractor perhaps? Yeah, he's got a
thousand among them to help perform.
Have you seen that's got me the most
photographed tractor?
>> Yeah.
>> So, why don't we use that?
>> And then you might be able to reduce the
notch a little.
>> Yeah. I I like I'd like to use I'd like
to have color in the whole inside.
>> Yeah.
>> But I' then just have like the outline
like the gold or whatever it is um
outline of the town but more accurate.
» That makes sense.
>> Yeah. I don't like it. So, a smaller jog
is one one thing, right?
>> Yeah. And well, I think the tractor
would be over the jog if I don't know.
It's definitely not proportional to the
actual size of the
>> flush out the logo.
>> It looks better in black and white than
it does in color actually.
>> Well, because one doesn't one the
picture looks real like a photograph and
the tractor looks like it's AI generated
and so to me they just don't meld
together.
>> No. I'd like to have a real picture. I
mean, that might be a actual Southwick
barn. I'm not sure.
>> It it is. Yes.
>> Yeah, that that I think.
>> Is that one of the Wallally's?
>> I thought it was
>> like on Tannery.
>> I'm not.
>> I think that's the one on Tannery.
>> Red.
>> I mean, so I I like the one where the
sky shows over the barn.
You okay with that?
>> But I don't like that there's black on
the bottom.
I think I think the field should fill
the whole image.
>> Okay.
>> We can still have the outline like it is
on the top of the image of Southwick.
Just make it more accurate.
>> I thought we said we wanted like
tobacco.
>> Yeah, tobacco would be good because we
or tobacco town.
>> Not to be partial.
>> That's why I think we should do Dwight.
Oh, I think we should do Dwight's.
I don't know if you want.
>> Yeah, it would be really cool just to
have a tobacco bar with a real tractor, too. Is that what Dwight does?
>> I don't. We have an old farm all sitting
out there right now. That thing doesn't
>> I don't care if it runs. I just I want
it to look I want it to look like, you
know, Southwork,
>> right? [laughter]
>> Well, the farm is great.
>> And there's tobacco in that field this
year as well. So, I'm wonder if we could
just take a picture right now where it
stob right now.
>> It's getting there.
>> Is it the tent or is it the
>> broad leaf?
>> Yeah. I'd love that. The tent.
>> It's right next to the They're growing.
>> You got the tent tent tobacco in there.
Shade tobacco. Um cuz I that's
>> the dream.
>> It's notic. What the heck?
>> Well, if you put the lakes inside the
notch.
>> I
>> Yeah,
>> I I don't like that there's a black spot
in it.
>> Yeah,
>> I like the
>> Okay. Yep.
>> I love I like the concept. I think we're
almost there, but
>> Yep.
>> think [clears throat] we just need to
fix it.
>> Okay. Great idea to take a picture of
Dwight's. Uh but we got to do that
quickly.
>> Yes.
I don't know who who who could do it.
>> Well, I mean, someone someone lives
right there.
>> Yeah. [laughter]
» Yeah. No, I mean, I can certainly try to
take a few photos and see what you guys
say.
>> I mean, you got a pretty good camera.
>> Where it stands? I have a camera, too.
Yeah.
>> Okay.
>> Oh, the sunflowers are already
>> I mean, yeah, we could probably get
depending on what I can get.
>> Yeah. You just got You got the power
lines. I'd like not to be in the photo.
Maybe get the barn and the field and the
sunflower all one shot
>> if you can do that. Yeah, I mean we can.
>> We got everything.
>> Yeah,
>> we could like Photoshop out stuff we
don't want.
>> Right.
>> I'll see what I can do when it starts
raining.
>> Yeah. And so do we want Dwight's old
tractor instead of this one?
>> I don't like this tractor. It just
>> Yeah. Okay.
>> You take a new picture that has
everything in it that we're looking for.
Just use one photo and it won't be like
slapped on top of the other one.
>> Right. Okay.
>> Shrink the factor way down. Put it in
the field.
>> Yeah. I want everything to be
proportional.
>> Lake area in the
>> I like I like how the lake shows up on
that a little, but
>> I feel like this would be like
>> it just it feels like
>> it feels like it's stretched.
>> It got too big. It did get very Could
you get a copy of that, too? Okay.
>> Okay.
>> Yeah. I don't like the cutout of the
>> Yeah.
>> It just doesn't look right.
>> Yeah. Just like and then they put the
lake in there.
>> Which is fine. Like the outline's there.
Just do the outline over the whole
picture.
>> Right. Right. Yeah.
>> Shrink the tractor. Put it back in the
before like with this passport stuff. Is
that
That's not the goal, right?
>> No.
>> What?
>> I don't
>> Yeah, it's on. Isn't it on something?
>> They want to put it on.
>> too. I mean, if we don't
>> I don't think we'll have enough time in
front of the passport on the barn, but
the open bar
>> if we don't have
>> I mean, if they use it, it's fine, but I
don't think that's our official logo.
>> Yeah,
>> they could take it off, right?
>> Yeah. Oh, definitely. Uh, and I'll ask
them, you know, like how,
you know, how much time we have for the
for this.
>> Maybe we don't have a time to put them
on our lo our open farm day stuff.
>> I mean, it doesn't have to be an
official logo. I mean, it can be a beta.
It could be a beta version,
[laughter] you know, test the waters
>> in this 1 through 12. That That's what
we're doing. We're going to have our
number signs at the farms. Is that what
we're doing? Is that what this is?
>> No, they they got confused between
>> No, I don't want that.
>> Okay.
>> Yeah, we just have our regular the same
open farm day signs we've used before.
ones with the ones with the
>> ones ones with the numbers when we
reprint the farm trail brochure
those
>> those will coincide with that brochure.
>> Okay, got it.
>> I don't think we're doing that. We're
not doing Yeah, we're not going to use
the number system. I guess we'll just go
with passport which is updated. We just
have to
>> Was it accurate?
>> Um
>> I can't see.
>> I see. um for me this second usually
some kind of like grammatical or
spelling error every year.
>> I haven't I haven't pro I haven't proof
read it yet but um I will
>> and uh
>> we decided to just number the farms you
know just put them in alphabetically.
>> Yeah. Okay.
>> Number them you know 1 through 11. Uh
presum
we may be moving
>> directionally.
Is that easy for people to get to if
they really followed it one through 10
or one through 12?
>> Like is one next to two?
>> Yeah. So no. So and we Martin and I
thought of trying to you know put the
numbers on the map to suggest a route to
people.
>> Um
>> it's it's hard to do though. I don't
think we have the real estate for that.
>> Well, and it depends on where they're
coming in from
>> where you want to start.
>> They'll be coming from everywhere.
Somebody might want to start with
Granville Scoop and somebody might want
to start with
>> Bezi, right? You know,
>> to come right.
>> Yeah.
>> Right.
>> Yeah. Let let people decide that on
their own.
>> I mean, and if it's alphabetical, that's
the most, you know, to me a nonbiased
way to do it. Just
>> alphabetical. Yeah. Yep. Exactly. Yeah.
I I understand that point. Yep.
And then uh
the info on the back is pretty much the
same that it's always been. Um just, you
know, slight edits. Oh, and the logo is
on the back, too. So, I don't know. Um
>> do we um are we okay with having the
same picture? Yeah, we're okay with
that, right?
>> Um I don't think we have anything else
to work with.
>> My wife has some pictures, but
>> yeah. Well, we'll think about it.
Southwood's article. They used one of my
wife's pictures.
>> Oh, cool. Awesome.
>> That's great.
>> Okay. Um,
so, so I'll talk to Martin about
>> Yeah.
>> working on the logo and how much time we
have to do that. And if we don't have
>> time, we'll just take the logo off, I
think, off the passport.
>> Yeah, we might have to.
>> Yeah.
>> I mean, when's it going to stop raining?
>> I think [laughter] Friday is supposed to
be nice.
I thought they said tomorrow in the
afternoon it might be okay.
» Why it says rain for the next week?
>> Two quick quick notes on the
edits, but one they have road
abbreviated on some of them and then
they have them spelled out on some.
>> Okay. Oh, I see.
And then I wonder if they could I don't
know if you guys think but in between
putting the name of the farm and the
road like could we maybe put like a dash
or like doesn't that kind of look like
it all kind of runs together?
>> Yeah, like a bullet or something in
there
>> something. Yeah, just
>> some formatting.
>> I seeak no comment because I can't see
it.
>> I I just can't
>> I'm like I know I'm like zooming in.
>> I can't see it even zoomed in. I
Everything looks so blurry to me. I
can't see it.
>> Yeah. To make it
>> small typo under six letter new second
line last visit all three groups at tole
learn. I think that at probably
shouldn't be there.
>> Um yeah I think you're right to learn
about it.
>> If we all agree we should probably vote
to have that like processed
without probably the logo. Did we
already allocate money for that? I think
we
>> we did. Yeah, we did.
>> We did. Oh, yeah. A long time ago. I
have it.
» Yeah, it's already in. Actually, it's
already
>> um slated to go to um it's our carryover
invoice. So,
>> um I'm [clears throat] just noticing on
the back uh under the picture it says
that uh Farm Day is co-sponsored by the
EDC and the South Land Trust.
>> Yeah, that needs to be removed.
>> We're gonna take that out.
>> Yeah, take that out.
>> Yeah,
>> I guess that answers your question,
Janice.
» They're not sponsoring us this.
>> Yeah.
Did you talk just enough for goodwill
that they could volunteer to earn
anything from?
>> Yeah, I would love I would love more
volunteers, but
>> yeah,
>> that would be great. But yeah,
>> I specifically asked Dan to ask Dave to
volunteer.
>> Dan,
>> I haven't heard a word.
>> Dire asked Dave earlier and he said he couldn't do it. I don't know why. Oh.
>> Oh.
>> So, we're taking the town, the economic
and the land trust
>> and our Southwick 2040 people. Still
haven't heard a response from any of
them.
>> 2040,
>> the town um master plan people.
>> Oh, yeah.
>> We're supposed to have supporting, you
know, boards.
>> Martha from land management. We have um
Greg from EDC,
>> but I don't think either of those are
supporting.
>> I'm specifically talking about um
>> conservation because they're like our
main supporting committee.
>> I know. Um Sabrina pass forwarded all
the information.
>> She didn't sign up.
>> Huh?
>> She didn't sign up.
>> I can't speak for them. Sorry.
>> Um I'm I'll send another email, I guess,
to them.
>> Have you ever done this like in the
fall? Actually, I think she's on
vacation. That's why
>> Changing Farmers the farmers farmers
don't want to when we do.
>> Yeah.
>> And we asked
>> We asked them. Yeah.
>> They didn't want
too busy.
>> Y
>> it's too busy. Yeah.
>> Grampy changed theirs though, right?
Grampy changed theirs to
>> I guess it depends what you have going
on at your farm. But the fall is super
busy with like the pumpkin, the hay
ride.
>> Yeah. That's all more attraction for
people.
>> Yeah. the farm they don't feel like they
have enough time to
>> some of the farms don't have anything
going like the tobacco's all down by
then right
>> it's
true
>> yeah so
>> that's the other point yeah
>> can't go in them
>> yeah grand be the weekend after Labor
Day
>> okay yeah so they are in September okay
>> this year's is actually very early being
on the 16th just the way it fell this
year usually it's about another week
later
>> um
>> so with the edits. Um, do you guys want
to vote to have those processed or to
get them submitted?
>> Do we need to really vote on it?
>> I think to process I don't know
» to agree on the on the changes.
>> Yeah.
>> I mean, if we [clears throat] can get a
picture for the logo in time. I like the
concept.
It just needs some tweaks and a better
photo in it.
>> Yeah. I wouldn't mind having the logo on
there if we But we can't vote on the
logo, but it we could use a beta
version,
>> right? Doesn't have to be our
>> Doesn't have to be official. We don't
have to make it official.
>> I don't think we really need to vote. We
just need to kind of agree because we've
already voted to do this, so
>> we voted the money.
>> Yeah, that's that's the big thing.
>> It looks exactly like the seal assigned
to it.
>> Yeah, I like the seal idea. I just think
it's too
>> not just too big on that.
>> It needs to be a little different though
too. You know what I mean? Like
>> I think maybe the custom
>> I guess that's what he did. He colored
in.
>> It's like blue. I don't know.
>> He needs to do the gold outline though
on the whole thing. He kind of stopped
at the bottom.
>> Well, this is green.
>> Yeah,
>> this is black.
>> It's like we copied it. I don't know.
>> I like the gold. Um
>> yeah,
>> it just needs to go all the way around.
» Take a picture of that and send it to
Bert.
There you are.
>> You know, I want to see if I'd like to
try a version that has like the the
black and yellow circle
from the town logo and but and maybe not
have the shape of the town.
>> Yeah.
We don't have to have the shape of
the town.
>> It's kind of weird, honestly.
>> Yeah. It kind of I think it kind of
takes away from the
>> Yeah,
>> it's weird when you try to put in it.
>> Yeah. Yeah, you can take that brain,
that line, the outline of town out.
Yeah,
>> I can definitely see where he got his
concept from.
>> Yes,
» I just think it could be approved upon.
Hey, maybe we can change the whole town
while we're at it.
>> Yeah, I wouldn't mind.
It's not very accurate. I guess I know
what bothers me about it.
Next one.
>> So, I'll see what I can get for
pictures. I'll just send them and then
if we go with it, great. If not, then we
just figure out our logo at another
date.
>> Yeah.
>> So, when does he Do you know when he
needs this by Bert?
>> Uh, I don't, but I'll find out uh
tomorrow morning.
>> Okay. So, um hopefully Friday looks like
the nicest day in the next week. So, if
Jessica can get us a good photo to use
instead.
>> Okay. Yep. that incorporates a barn,
tobacco, and a tractor. I mean, and
sunflowers. I mean, that's a win-win
win.
[laughter]
» You want to bring a cow? We can throw
that in there.
>> AI.
[laughter]
>> Yeah. All the AI stuff has made it look
pretty terrible. So, we we've gone down
that route. I
>> was gonna say the AI stuff. I see every
brochure.
>> It all looks the same.
>> See it now. It all looks the same.
>> It all looks the same. And I mean, yeah,
it's very whatever professionally
looking, but it it doesn't I don't know.
It doesn't grab I mean, they're using it
now for the police.
It's too much.
>> It's not authentic.
>> It doesn't look authentic.
>> No.
>> So, let's bring some authenticity back
to it.
>> That's That's because it's not
authentic.
>> Exactly.
>> Right. Yeah. Exactly.
>> The eye and AI is inauthentic.
>> Yeah. I just and everybody is using it
in so many places that everything is
popping up AI and it's like
>> it's just it's cluttered
>> the whole time like a lot of the events
and things I think are just
>> yeah it's it's
>> like watching a 3se secondond commercial
blip and it drives me crazy.
>> I'd rather have something that is is
something that you can read and it looks
like a picture and maybe it's not
perfect but it's okay.
Well,
>> I think that's about it for now.
>> You haven't heard about appointments or
appointments?
>> I've not heard about appointments or
reappoints.
>> Gotten anything? I don't know if I will.
Last time I didn't. They just put me on
and it happened without me being there.
>> I've watched the last couple um select
board meetings and there's nothing. So
officially, if you're already appointed
from the year before and um you are were
sworn in before, we could still vote on
things until if unless we're replaced by
somebody,
>> right?
>> Um so we're okay with having this
>> people. Yeah.
>> Voting and all that stuff. So,
>> but the new people aren't official,
>> right? Unfortunately.
And I believe after you, you and Ashley
get appointed, we still have one seat
available.
>> Oh, can somebody ask Dan if they have if
he has extra shirts to go around because
we're all going to wear our shirts,
right?
>> He does have a few.
>> Do you have a shirt? You have shirt?
Okay.
>> I wonder if we have extra shirts that we
can give out to
>> We do.
>> The new commissioners,
>> right?
>> Yeah. And they're going to need they're
going to need badges.
>> Yeah. Name tags.
>> Name tags. Yeah, I was going to say,
well, so I I can do those.
>> Oh, I think I think Pango might be
putting that in. Oh. Oh, the lanyard.
>> Lanyards. Yeah,
>> that's right. Y
>> I mean, because they're almost coming
from it.
>> TBD [laughter]
missioner pending
in progress. [laughter]
» It's kind of embarrassing.
>> Some kind of title
badge from something. I don't know if it
would apply if it's generic. Yeah, just
put a little sticker on it says, you
know, agricultural commission or
something.
>> Yeah, if we could get everybody
lanyards, that would be helpful.
>> Yeah,
>> I still have mine.
>> I have mine.
>> Thank you, Bert.
>> Appreciate that.
>> Oh, sure. Of course.
>> Awesome. All right. I think
>> Okay.
>> I think we're good. Um, I'll make a
motion to adjurnn.
>> I second that.
>> All in favor?
>> I
[laughter]
>> All right. Good night, everyone.
>> Okay. Take care. Thanks.
>> See you.
>> So, August 6, everybody.
>> Yep.
>> Thursday night moment.