MINUTES 3/26

Introduction of:
Lisa Navarro - Garden Trust - Pyramid Peas - 917.567.7175
Jason Sheets - Deputy Director
Seth Orman - CSA

Mulch Fest
Saturday 4/19/03  -  Mulch Fest - chipper available for composting

Ask Jason - access to mulch pile, storage and any tickets for garbage

List of gardens in 1 mile radius for mulch fest, mailing to members

Beryl do flyers for 4/19/03 (note: designing flyers will be ready Sunday night - ring my doorbell bell 4 or I can email flyer to anyone who make copies at their office?)

Green Thumb - Amanda mailers

Plan what we will plant?
Tomatoes
Peppers
Hot peppers
Cabbage
Lettuce
Sage
Peas
String beans
Collard greens
Mustard greens

Amanda - Talk to Jason about soil, compost, top soil, create a drop box for people to take vegetables

Summer Pgms.
Director of programming - movies in the garden - classical & lost NYU environmental flicks.
Latin jazz musician

Landscaping
Brian - make path more permanent, discuss, drainage, irrigation system, create a proposal for a grant for irrigation.

Find way for water capture (without attracting mosquito breeding (added by Beryl))

Redesigning watermelon patch
Some ideas long term - gazebo, arboretum
What about a bee hive that will produce honey.

Landscaping - use horticulturalist and garden members Dariel, Amanda, Zester

New Members
Pough - needs to come to meetings

Other business
Plots - current members

Food Bank - annual community event 2-3 distributions of food (from beryl - what about at the end of the season when we have surplus of tomatoes etc.)

Treasurer - Dariel - Concord Fed. Credit Union - $128.75

Dues were collected 
Dues due April 19, 2003 - send out postcard

Fundraisers this year needed

Available Plots
(4) plots available - list of plots 
make more plots available to kids

Raised bed for community garden - fresh soil, top soil

One new small box needed