Fall Meeting Notes

Thanks to all our members who made it out to the garden for our fall clean up and member meeting! Below are the notes from the meeting.

• Garden needs:
  • More help taking care of communal ornamental planters: watering, weeding
  • More commitment to individual plots: watering, weeding, dealing with pests disease, maintenance
  • Repairs to wooden planters
    • Alternative option for planters that need to be replaced. New wood? Use existing stone blocks? Plastic?
  • New hose caddy for green hose
  • Additional hose stationed by planters along 2nd place
  • Shut off nozzles for ends of hoses
  • Budget for summer annuals for communal ornamental beds
  • Native plants for communal ornamental beds
  • Labels for plants
  • Soil
  • Blog post on website: what plants to plant where in the garden (include garden map and indicate what kind of sun exposure hits where)

• Fundraising:
  • We need to establish a shared sense of need
  • Determine costs for our needs list (above)
  • What skills do our gardeners have that we can use to raise money?
  • Fundraising ideas:
    • Bake sale
    • Plant sale (divide and sell perennials from the garden)
    • Raffle
    • Open garden hours (chaperoned by a gardener) for donation
    • Cocktails in the garden
    • Music nights
    • Workshops (natural dying, flower arranging, seed saving, improv)
    • “In the garden” series
  • Set goals for spring fundraising efforts

• • Reach out to Gowanus Conservancy:
    • Compost (***received today!***)
    • Can they take diseased soil to solarize?
    • Seeds