A Gardener's Retreat

The following are the minutes for the May garden meeting, which took place May 27, 2009.  Note that the meeting date that was scheduled below was never announced to we still need to set a date and time for the June meeting.  Look for an announcement on that soon.

Topics for Meeting 5/27

A lot of discussion and here are the major topics:

1- Committees: developing committees to aid in the running of the community garden
A. Finance committee to handle:
-budget
-purchasing
-fundraising
**as well as discussion for an appointed “treasurer” to handle taking of money for manure, hay etc…
B. Organization committee
- developing processes for making decisions regarding the community garden

2- Composting discussion
A. Are there different ways we can explore?
- hot composting
- cold composting
B. Necessity of having a decided system so we can all participate and all be responsible

3- Some important decisions that need to be addressed this gardening season
A. Lawn mower
B. Garden shed
- it is in the lease that we can have a 6×6 shed on the garden land
- this led to the discussion of a greenhouse/hoophouse as well
- need to acquire materials to build a shed
- donations?

4- The unused/unclaimed 1/2 garden plot
A. use as a community flower cutting garden

5- The use of the existing community herb garden as a means of fundraising
A. allowing herbalists to cut herbs in exchange for a donation

6- Next meeting date and work date
A. Meeting : June 8th (location?)
note: this meeting is postponed, date tbd

B. Work days : Sunday June 14th 3-6 p.m.
Thursday June 18th 9 a.m. -12 p.m.