Sunshine Weekly Weeder Newsletter
21 July 2016
www.sunshinecommunitygardens.org
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Spring 2016 Service Hrs - Make-up Workdays
Makeup Workdays:
- Saturday 7/23 8:00 - 10:00 am
- Sunday 7/24 8:00 - 10:00 am
There will be special workdays Saturday (7/23) and Sunday (7/24) 8:00-10:00 am for gardeners who would like to make up unworked Spring 2016 service hours. Gardeners will be able to make up both TSBVI and regular service hours. The Sunshine site rules authorize the board to conduct pilots relating to completing and recording service hours. These workdays are part of those pilots.
The conditions for making up the hours are:
- Gardener must participate in the organized makeup workdays conducted on Saturday 7/23 and Sunday 7/24.
- Gardener will have to sign in and sign out at the workday.
- Signup sheet will be used to credit the hours. Gardeners will not be able to enter hours directly in the Green Binder.
Common Path Encroachment
Sunshine site rules prohibit encroachment on common paths with either plants, plot borders, or structures. Gardeners must keep the paths clear of hoses, garden equipment, etc. Last January, the board identified common paths and asked gardeners whose plots were encroaching to rein in their plot borders when planting for spring season. While significant improvement has been made there is still some encroachment. The board is again asking gardeners to check their plots for encroachment on common paths and to try to eliminate that encroachment when planting for the fall season. More information about identifying common paths and possible encroachment is posted on the Sunshine website.
Fall Plant Sale!
Planning for the Fall plant sale has begun. The plan is to start the seeding the 2nd week of August. Most of the seeds should be germinated and ready to transplant about 2 weeks after that. We will have approximately 5000-6000 transplants, including fun varieties of broccoli, cauliflower, brussel sprouts, cabbages, and more. Since the fall sale gives all profits to TSBVI, your volunteer time counts as your TSBVI hour!
Volunteers will be needed for:
- Planting seeds in plug trays
- Filling pots and transplanting plugs
- Watering transplants
- Moving plants from the TSBVI greenhouse to the Sunshine greenhouse the day before the sale
- Cashiers
- Tag writing
We will need volunteers to water once we start planting. Hopefully, we can get 14 folks (water twice a day, so each person will have one turn a week). Tag writing will be assigned once we know what has survived the transplanting process. Cashiers should expect to fill a 3-hour shift. Watch for the volunteer signup process in next weeks newsletter
2016 Tomato Survey
Take the 2016 SCG tomato survey. Results will be shared.
Micah 6
Deliveries:
- Thursday - 3:00 pm
- Saturdays - 9:00 am
If you are available to assist with harvesting or delivering, please let Dana Kuykendall (kuykendall@austin.rr.com), 512.496.6575 or Mary Gifford (mgifford@austin.rr.com), 512.453.9742 know if you can help in any way. Volunteer hours count towards service hours. More volunteers are needed!
Reminder - Wood Chips and Leaves Satellite Station
Gardeners on Sunshine's north end are reminded of the wood chips and leaves satellite station located in the first "drive-in" area west of the parking lot. As plots are cleared of spring crops, covering the plot with leaves is a good way to protect the soil and suppress weeds until plant fall crops. The satellite station has been set up on a trial basis to make Sunshine's supply of wood chips and leaves more convenient for gardeners on Sunshine's north end.
Garden Poem
The garden is one of the two great metaphors for humanity.
The garden is about life and beauty and the impermanence of all living things.
The garden is about feeding your children, providing food for the tribe.
It's part of an urgent territorial drive that we can probably trace back to animals storing food.
It's a competitive display mechanism, like having a prize bull, this greed for the best tomatoes and English tea roses.
It's about winning; about providing society with superior things; and about proving that you have taste, and good values, and you work hard.
And what a wonderful relief, every so often, to know who the enemy is.
Because in the garden, the enemy is everything: the aphids, the weather, time.
And so you pour yourself into it, care so much, and see up close so much birth, and growth, and beauty, and danger, and triumph.
And then everything dies anyway, right?
But you just keep doing it.
Weeder Content
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Officer and Zone Coordinator Contacts - Sunshine Garden
Officers
- President - Jeff Monks garden@jeffmonks.com
- Vice President - Jim Willmann jhwillmann@gmail.com
- Secretary - Shannon Posern shannonposern@gmail.com
- Treasurer - Caroline Limaye scgtreasurer1@gmail.com
- Director - Bill Cason wccason@gmail.com
- Director - Lori Dobbin loridobbin@gmail.com
- Director - Randy Thompson jartdaht@gmail.com
Zone Coordinators
- Zone 1, Martin Morales marmoral512@gmail.com
- Zone 2, Katy Davis katydavis@austin.rr.com
- Zone 3, Ludmila Voskov lvoskov@austin.rr.com
- Zone 4, Ila Falvey ila.falvey@gmail.com
- Zone 5, Mary Gifford mgifford@austin.rr.com
- Zone 6, Charlotte Jernigan charlotte@cybermesa.com
- Zone 7, vacant
- Zone 8, Irina Kadukova irina@austinshrooms.com
- Zone 9, Kerry Howell casonhowell@gmail.com
- Zone 10, Christopher Schroder christopher.s.schroder@gmail.com
Other Coordinators
- Weekly Weeder Newsletter - Margaret Powis purslane2013@gmail.com
- Plant Sale - Michael Hall fibercable@austin.rr.com
- TSBVI Liason & Volunteer Coordinator - Janet Adams jartdaht@gmail.com
- Plot Rental - Kay McMurry scg.plots@gmail.com
- Compost Coordinator - Janet Adams jartdaht@gmail.com
- Compost Tea - Jennifer Woertz jennifer.woertz@urs.com
- Education Committee - Shannon Posern shannonposern@gmail.com
- Carpentry & Repairs - Robert Jarry r.jarry@sbcglobal.net
- Water Leak Repairs - Steve Schulz sschulz784@aol.com
- Tools & Wheelbarrows - Bob Easter beaster1@austin.rr.com
- Compost Tea - Jennifer Woertz jennifer.woertz@urs.com
- Website Coordinator - Sharon Rempert scgardenweb@gmail.com
Record Service Hours Online - the Virtual Green Binder
