Category - Workday
Hi all,
REMINDER: Our next workday is Saturday at 10am.
Here is our agenda:
- We are hosting a compost giveaway for the community on Saturday. Please sign up here and share with your networks: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/compost-distribution-at-w104th-street-community-garden-tickets-377902806467
- Please feel free to use the new pile of dirt for your beds. We will seek volunteers to help members in need of assistance moving the dirt.
- Bethany will give a rat update and provide some lessons learned after four years of rat abatement efforts.
- Donna will provide a flea market update.
Here are tasks we have scheduled for the workday:
- clean out the cistern on the east side
- work on refurbishing the wooden structure that holds up the water pails on the west side
- clean out the temporary cat houses
- clean the sidewalk and pick up litter
- fill the water barrels
- get rid of rat habitats
Thank you!
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Workdate on the 12th was cancelled, we plan on gathering on the 18th instead:
Due to pending rain, today’s meeting/workday has been cancelled. Our pre scheduled rain date is next Saturday, June 18. A reminder notice will go out later in the week.
If you still care to be in the garden today and want to do some work, weeding around the OUTSIDE of all raised beds is always needed. Remember to NEVER pull weeds from the inside of someone’s bed or communal bed. You never know what unique or desired plant is growing there. We have lost several special plants this way recently and the disappointment is deeply felt.
Thank you and have a beautiful day!
The West 104 Garden Steering Committee
Agenda for the Meeting
1. Dirt Delivery-Volunteers needed for June 17 between 8 a.m. and 10 a.m.
2. Flea Market-New format this year
3. Updates to Monitoring Sign-up and Website
- Sign up for On Call shifts
4. Make Music NY
- volunteers needed?
- Should the garden sell refreshments to raise some money?
5. Compost Distribution Event
- Suggested Dates
- Explanation of Event
6, Umbrella-new location?
7. Announcements:
- Weeding in communal beds or other people’s beds
- Member announcements
8. Tasks:
- Weed around the beds
- Rubble removal
- Painting shed roof (postponed because we need two days of no rain after painting)
- TBA
Misc/Announcements
One of the Garden members Jean also pointed out that NY Philharmonic in the Park has returned this year! (thanks, Jean!) So we will be posting external events to the calendar.
See you on Saturday!
We have a workday on Saturday, May 21 at 10am.
Here is the list of tasks that we’ll work on
1. cleanup behind the fence on the east side
2. spread gravel including around the new beds and along the perimeter of the west garden where the new fencing was installed
3. paint the shed roofs
4. committees should meet
Reminders / announcements /info
1. There are some free plants on a table near the port-o-potty. Please feel free to take one.
2. The water barrels in the east garden should not be shoved against the wall. That is a known rat route and we want to avoid giving them cover. The barrels should be 18 inches away from the wall.
3. Two bags of compost per bed. Please make sure to take your allotment this weekend.
4. Please do not plant additional plants in the areas that were cleared due to the new fencing. This is important perimeter space that we need to keep clear in line with our rat prevention strategy.
5. We will circulate the roster and committee lists as well as bed assignments in time for the workday!