Here are the minutes from March's meeting.

Mark Your Calenders!

To Be Determined...

Soon there will be a post directing where to drop off tool donations and/or personal tools you'd like to contribute for use in the garden. Please please please!! label your tools clearly to ensure their safe return. Any lost/stolen/damaged tools will be reimbursed by the garden.

Josh Hayes

Josh spoke to the group about the possibility of using horses to plow our garden. This suggestion was met with enthusiastic responses from the group. He has contacts that may be able to do this soon; more information to be posted by those involved. If you are interested in Josh's work with draft horses, look up Healing Harvest Forest Foundation. This foundation aims to promote sustainable logging.

Guidelines/criteria

Alyssa went over the garden guidelines. The group had no complaints. She also passed around a tentative membership application to allow for suggestions from the group. Finally, membership criteria will be posted on this blog. Please take the time to read over what Alyssa posts and provide comments.

Hello Folks!

Sorry I have not gotten the minutes from March's meeting up yet. Just a warning, short notice I know: there will be a workday April 1st (tomorrow). Possibly plowing? Anyone who has talked to John Hayes can maybe post more info about this. Also, mark your calenders for next Saturday, as there will be a work day then as well... I will post the information from the meeting as soon as I get a chance, check back April 1 or 2.

peas
~katie

Hello all.
I am interested in getting a plot in the community garden to practice nature farming. Any leftover plots will suit as this is more of an expirement in "do nothing" farming. Christoff's agroecology class has projects to design community garden layouts using different farming techniques. Getting a hands on approach, if possible, makes it easier to design. Cover crops of clover or alfalfa would grow first as a green manure. No till, no weeding and no chemicals are the guidelines that nature farming includes. I can discuss this matter further at the meeting on the 30th. I think this seldom used method can make the community garden unique.
-Alec