Fwd: Spokane Community Gardens Spring Meeting & Potluck Friday March 2, 2018 at 6 pm

[Philip Small]

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From: Robert A. Sloma GEOARCH, Inc. <geo...@sover.net>
Date: Thu, Feb 15, 2018 at 9:22 AM
Subject: Spokane Community Gardens Spring Meeting & Potluck Friday March 2, 2018 at 6 pm
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Hello school, youth program, community, and service gardens, managers/contacts, and all gardeners! 

Don’t forget Spokane Community Gardens Spring Meeting & Potluck is Friday, March 2nd starting at 6 p.m.! We are looking forward to getting to know everyone better and learning how our umbrella organization can best support your efforts at growing a healthy community! 

Attached is a flyer that you can send out to your gardeners or post up at the garden. Also included are 4-up cards, as well as the flyer, that you can hand out around your neighborhoods to better advertise SCG’s upcoming Spring Meeting. Thank you all for helping build a stronger community of gardens in our region! Please help by forwarding this to your garden mailing lists and stakeholders!

Our Potluck (6:30 pm) is a great time for you to meet other garden contacts and share great advice about challenges like attracting more gardeners, seeking financial support, composting last year’s garden clean up, averting vandalism, or enhancing outreach to the community.

Don’t miss special guest speaker Susan Mulvihill’s „Grow Your Best Garden EVER!” (free and open to the public) at 7:15 pm. The Spring Meeting & Potluck (starting at 6 pm) will also feature wonderful Auction Item (gift baskets from INB, Spokane Master Composters/Recyclers, and many others), news of upcoming grants and equipment which your garden may be eligible for, people representing great resource organizations supporting gardeners, and a seed swap/free seeds. 

Representatives of organizations you will meet in our resource room include the Spokane County Library System’s Seed Libraries, WSU Extension Food Preservation, the Spokane Master Composters/Recyclers, WSU Master Gardeners-Spokane County, The Edible Tree Project, Spokane Urban Agriculture Network, Vets on the Farm, the Inland Northwest Beekeepers, Associated Garden Clubs of Spokane, the Spokane Food Policy Council, and more. 

Attached is also a Spokane Community Gardens brochure that you can forward to gardeners. A membership of $12/year (discounted to $5 for any gardener after the first pays full price) helps support benefits such as a Tool Library, Volunteer Work Parties that can help out at your garden, renowned special guest speakers at the two general membership potluck meetings a year, other education programming (including Starting A Community Garden workshops), a dedicated VISTA position hosted by WSU Extension, public garden tours, alerts about grants and other funding openings, technical resource support, and much more! 

Our mission? Spokane Community Gardens connects gardens and communities through communication, acquiring and sharing resources, education and advocacy to support gardeners in the Inland Northwest region.”

 Your membership support creates a strong community of school, youth, community and service gardens throughout our region. Join today?

Kathleen E. Callum

President, Spokane Community Gardens