Ok so for you new gardeners last year was my first year at judkins.
There werent alot of workparties I could go to, so I didnt know how I was going to fill in my 8 hours by the deadline (I started in june).
Below are some ideas to help you fill up your time, and if anyone else has ideas or suggestions they should post here, leave comments or create their own lovely blog!!!
1. workparties if you can.
2. make cookies for workparties
3. pick-up coffee grounds (starbucks, tully's, mezza luna) there can never be enough so just keep getting them!
4. signage (our signage is pretty poor right now, so if you can create lovely signs for the bad weeds vs good weeds, bad bugs vs good bugs etc that works!)
5. help weed and water the food bank plot.
6. Talk to mark or kenya (or all the gardeners together at a meeting) about creating artwork for the shared spaces.
7. Take pictures!!!
8. publish blogs.
9. weed paths.
10. Bring a friend with you to workparties, their hours count too!
A couple of gardeners have talked about creating sellable items to raise funds for our patch, postcards and paintings. This is an amazing idea for creating funds for items like a retaining wall or a picnik table, AND it counts for your hours.
4 out of your 8 hours need to be done in judkins, I hope the above list helps out if you had any questions. Its really easy to get your hours done and often you can find your over in hours.
Since all these volunteer hours help out our lovely little garden dont stop at 8!!
I will be setting up a contest (with prizes) this coming month.
The top three judkineers with the most hours logged will recieve handmade prizes, get a blog written about them, have fresh cookies and otherwise be worshiped for their awesomeness.
I'll post the contest soon, keep an eye out for it and really start logging those hours.
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Nice blog!
ReplyDeleteWatering food bank plot and front slope in our heat wave would be mighty helpful.
The paths-especially the end by our front entrance on 24th Ave.S, over to compost bins (that whole area in front of bins should be chipped), and thru towards food bank plot is pretty weedy. We had some help chipping our main paths, but they didn't get to finish, so that end is a little thin. Our responsibility anyhoo. And it is our "front door."
Paths in between plots are looking a tad weedy, too. Though chipping and maintaining the rows around our plots does not count toward hours-each plot is responsible for maintaining the paths nearest them IIRC.
Overall though the Patch is looking lovely, with lots of great food and habitat.
Sean