Topsoil Is Here And Some Are Ready To Plant

So much has happened during the past week. We had a Square-Foot Gardening class, a seed exchange and topsoil arrived and is being spread throughout the garden. We want to have meetings every Wednesday night, gardening classes or coordinating meetings.

Preparation for Saturday's Classes

Mr. Silva made some suggestions and observations on what we could do to get the most out of his classes, particularly if some of us are committed to the concept of square-foot gardening.

1. Begin building our own boxes.
2. Go to some of the local lumber yards or find a construction sites and see if there's some free wood that they are throwing away.
3. The boxes don’t have to be pretty, they just have to be useful. The usual dimension for a box are 4’ x 4’ x 6” high, but if they find 2x2 or 2x3, it works fine too.
4. Go to local depot type stores or nurseries and see if we can get some wood, weed mat or seeds donated. Stores love to look good for the community.

We all will be better prepared to learn and apply if we take a look at "square-foot gardening" online.

Does anyone read these things? There are hardly any comments.

Boy Scout Help

Hello Everyone!

Would it be of any help to Common Grounders if a Boy Scout troop came by this weekend and helped with the topsoil? If this is something that you'd like, what day would you want them to come? Got any questions or suggestions, post them below: add your comment.

Here are some recent photos of the garden. Some of you already have begun to prepare the soil.

Gardening Class April 9

We held the Wednesday evening meeting and those present were able to choose their plots. Four people volunteered to be on the coordinating committee. the agenda for the meeting was as follows:

I. Coordinating Committee (Volunteers?)

A. Responsibilities:

1. Plan and coordinate activities

2. Contact others through phone tree, etc.

3. Other, still to be determined

Volunteers:

1. Karen Barksdale
2. Charlotte Maassen
3. July Murphy
4. Julio Martinez
5. Abby Maassen?

II. Contact Information List (Phone Tree)(Heidi)

III. Tentative or Initial Plot Assignments (Jeremiah)

IV. Weekly Classes? (Emily)

A. April 9-Square-Foot Gardening (8AM and 10 AM)

V. Top Soil (Emily)

VI. Collaborative Plot (Heidi)

VII. Children’s Plot (Heidi)

VIII. Next Meeting (Scheduled or As Needed?) (Mr. Willey)

A. Soil Preparation

B. Topsoil Date

C. Planning?

D. Other

IX. Class meeting on April 9th. We will discuss more items/concerns/ideas at the class.

~ 8 am (Spanish)

~ 10am (English)

Some Tentatively Scheduled Events or Activities include:

April 1-9 (Friday - Saturday) : Common Grounders begin preparing their plots for topsoil that will be delivered later in the week.

April 4 (Monday) : Those wanting to help finish dividing up the new plots are invited to come between 3-7 PM.

April 8-11 (Friday - Monday) : The topsoil will be delivered and must be moved into the garden before Monday, the 11th, night.

April 9 (Saturday) : There will be two gardening classes taught at the school in Mr. Willey's room. The first will be at 8 AM and will be in Spanish. The second, in English, will be at 10 AM. Everyone, Common Grounders or not, is welcome so invite friends and family.