[Garden] Fwd: Re: Garden meeting?

[gcmichal at envmail.uwaterloo.ca]

Looks like February 23 is set.  I'm disappointed that it couldn't be  
held when I could be there.  Please don't finalize seed decisions  
without giving me a chance to comment on it.  I have about 50 packet  
of seeds of various sorts, good catalogues, and will end up starting a  
lot of seedlings in my "growth chamber" in my basement.  I also would  
like to be part of the discussion of whether or not we need fencing  
and how much, financing, weeding, and some other items.  Can you  
provide those of us who can't attend with a chance to contribute to  
these decisions?  If we were given a choice of possible dates and then  
picked the one most suitable to the greatest number of people, then I  
would not feel badly about the choice of date, even if I was unable to  
attend.  But I don't think this was a fair way of deciding on a date -  
one date was suggested and that was that.

- Greg Michalenko

Quoting "J. Rochon" <jrochon at uwaterloo.ca>:

> Candace,
>              I have stayed out of this thread, until now, because  
> things go faster with fewer people, and I am at work. I'll be there  
> on the 23rd, but a bit late. The fence requires locates to be done  
> with gas and hydro.
>>
>> Hey all,
>>
>> I'd actually like to get the ball rolling on this and have *gasp*  
>> more than one meeting this term. I just feel that if we delay on  
>> this too long, things won't actually get done. There are some  
>> things especially (like a budget) that would likely benefit from  
>> having a bit of long-term planning in place?
>>
>> Let's start with the first meeting of the term on Monday Feb. 23 at  
>> 7:00 pm. Unless there are strong objections?
>>
>> Tentative agenda:
>>
>> 1. Introductions
>>
>> All of the following points will need two-ish people to take on the  
>> coordination of:
>>
>> 2. How, where and when to recruit new members
>>
>> 3. Budget: Where to get money for seeds and other purchases
>>
>> 4. What seeds we need to reorder (we should get on this)
>>
>> 5. Do we want to get stuff for a fence?
>>
>> 6. When to hold the planting party (if we are having one).
>>
>> 7. Finding foster parents for the seedlings we grow. 8. Compost   
>> from the city, compost runs from food services
>>
>> 9. Deciding when gardening times will be, having official volunteer  
>> greeters to ensure people feel welcome at the garden
>>
>> Given that this  looks like a long agenda, I say that we set the  
>> priorities at the first meeting as to what we most urgently need to  
>> talk about, and leave some of the less urgent/important points  
>> until the next meeting. If somebody wants to take on  advertising a  
>> social garden meeting for our second meeting of the term, that  
>> would be a great way to bring in new members.
>>
>> Just my thoughts, do feel free to add!
>>
>> Alicia
>>
>> On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 10:56 AM, Paul Nijjar <paul_nijjar at yahoo.ca  
>> <mailto:paul_nijjar at yahoo.ca>> wrote:
>>
>>
>> Given that Greg is a primary foster parent and that he wants to come
>> to the meeting is there interest in rescheduling?
>>
>>
>> - Paul
>>
>>
>>
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