Tuesday, January 11, 2011

Garden Meetings

Hello All,
Sorry for the late notice about this - we are having a garden meeting tomorrow night at 7:30pm at Creative Living, 1531 Perry St. If you can't make this meeting, do not fear, we are planning to hold bi-weekly garden meetings during the winter and early spring to make sure we are really focused and ready for the coming garden season.

The meeting schedule is the 2nd and 4th Wednesday of January, February, March and April. The January meetings will be held from 7:30-8:30pm, and the February-April meetings will be held from 6:30-7:30pm. All meetings will be held in the Creative Living lobby at 1531 Perry St.

Tomorrow, we will discuss "class" options, and set the topics for each of the upcoming meetings. Some topics for these meetings include:
  • development of a NECKO Garden blog
  • creation of hard and fast garden rules and mission
  • researching and writing grant requests
  • marketing plans
  • seed starting plans
  • garden work day plans
  • garden design plans - what we are planting and where
We need people with creative minds, skills with websites and blogs, marketing savvy, grant writing or fund-raising skill - or at least the desire to learn through trial and error! - garden know-how, volunteer recruitment know-how, and of course, just plain desire to get your hands (or your aide's hands ;) ) dirty.

We don't expect everyone to attend every meeting, but the more the merrier! We will be able to accomplish a lot if we can work together to create a reliable network of gardeners and garden helpers.

Notes from each meeting will be emailed to this group. If you wish to be removed from the group, please do not hesitate to let me know - no hard feelings of course!

If you know of someone who would like to be added to the email group and/or would like to participate in the garden in any way, please forward this message to them and/or send me their name/email.

Thanks to all for being part of this great garden group! (say that 10 times fast :) )

As always,

April Calkovsky
614-477-8610