Hello everyone,
I've just been appointed to head a new organic community garden. This is the end of the first year, which has been energized with the newness of the garden and beautiful results we have achieved, but we now need a way to make our garden sustain itself through the work of the bed holders. We have about 100 primary gardeners. We would like to see more participation in the running of the garden from more of the gardeners and were thinking about requiring attendance at several meetings and some volunteer hours as a part of the agreement to have a raised bed. So if you have a couple minutes, could you help me out by answering at least the following. How much time from members does it take for your garden to manage itself? Do you require volunteer hours? How is that working for you? If your garden ever has required volunteer hours, what was your experience? Do you require attendance at meetings? If so, what is your experiences with that, do people like it, resent it, or what? For Organic Gardens - how do you manage compost? If you have any other advice or words of wisdom, etc, please let me know. I would rather benefit from someone else's experience than make all the same mistakes all over again. Thank you for helping me. It's a huge job and I don't want to disappoint. We have a meeting the 29th and I'd like to have some data for the members. L ------------------------------------------ Laurie J Hughes Silicon Valley, CA (formerly the Valley of Hearts Delight) Bobbin lace, social history, gardening ------------------------------------------ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: /pipermail/community_garden_list.communitygarden.org/attachments/20061125/1a1f0e68/attachment.html
