SDF Community Garden Meeting Notes: April 5, 2025

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Apr 5, 2025, 5:26:45 PMApr 5
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Hi Gardeners,

Here are notes from our garden meeting today. They are also posted in Discord where you can make additions/corrections or ask any questions related to what was discussed. 

Thanks, Corey


Garden Meeting Notes: April 5, 2025

Attendees

  • Corey, John, Bob & Sylvia, Brad, Agatha, Joelle, Jeremy, Anna & Ruben (volunteers/waiting list), Madeline, Natalie, Emily, Edward, Kelton, Caroline, Randy, Billy

  • (I might have missed a few people since we did intros before the meeting started)

  • Make sure you add an hour of work-hours time on the Work Hours sheet if you attended the meeting/social. 

Agenda Topics

  • Updates from City and Austin Parks Foundation: Corey gave some updates on recent conversations with the city and APF:  

    • PARD: Is going to be cleaning up some of the brush and overgrowth along the trail. Corey met with Suzannah DesRoches last week. 

      • Learned that the drive is in fact city property. 

      • Talked some about the status of the property that is up for sale along the drive. 

    • Upcoming Meeting on Wed with Amanda Ross, Division Manager, Natural Resources

      • Corey is meeting with Amanda on Wed at 10:30am to do a walk through of the garden

    • Park Summit next month: Corey encouraged a few other gardeners to join him for this. 

    • There’s a Survey from Austin Parks that Gardeners are encouraged to fill out: https://forms.gle/imJh6RTghYgKBS3w5 

      • Don’t worry about the Community Garden details, just fill out your interests and feedback. 

    • We continue to advocate for a pathway to get the pavilion tiles replaced. 

  • Finance Updates: 

    • Corey gave an update on finances. We’ve paid most of our big expenses: gutter, trash removal etc. 

    • Emily shared that her company is offering a grant for programs like community gardens. 

  • May Garden Plot Inspections

    • Set date for the inspection: 

      • Sat May 10 Inspection Date 

      • Plots that fail will have until June 7 to get back in good standing

      • One more reminder will be sent before April 26 to comply with the 2-week notice process for inspections. 

    • Heads up to everyone: There will be a lot of grass and weeds growing between now and then. Stay on top of your plots! 

  • Waiting List: Bob proposed that we change the waiting list process to periodically purge people who are on the list and make everyone re-apply. 

    • This will make sure people are invested in the process and will save a ton of time on the administration side of things. 

    • Discussed frequency and landed on 2X / year. 

    • Voted and all gardeners approved unanimously

    • Corey added the following text to the current bylaws: “The waiting list will be purged twice a year to ensure that all individuals on the list still desire to be on the list. Waiting list individuals will be informed of this process and given two weeks to respond via email in order to remain on the list”



Committee UpdatesCompost, Trash, and Recycling (Lead: Billy, outgoing / Agata, incoming)

  • Billy announced that he and Athula are moving to NYC and this would be his last meeting. (We’ll miss you both!) 

  • Agata will be taking over and they’ve already completed handoff 

  • Another community garden has offered to donation the following composter: 4000-00-03 Composter - Mantis

  • Trash - furniture that has been collecting in the front - Caroline volunteered to pick this up with her truck and schedule a bulk pickup. 

  • We also need to dispose of some of the trash bags and other trash. This can’t be disposed of in the bulk pickup. 

    • Please make an effort to take trash with you when you can

Outreach & Communication & Events (Lead: Ariana)

  •  No Updates

Shed & Inventory

  • No Updates 

  • NOTE: We have 3 weed wackers (1 gas, 2 electric) that Corey keeps at his house for safekeeping since they get lost or stolen in the garden shed. You can check these out with advance notice. 

Pollinator Gardens

  • South Pollinator Garden 

    • Joelle and Jeremy are moving to Canada around June. (We’ll miss you both!) 

    • We need a new volunteer to lead the South Pollinator plots! 

    • Jeremy will get documentation for what’s planted in these beds. 

  • North Pollinator Garden

    • Good workday last month, everything is in good shape

  • Avocado Trees - We got an offer to get some donated but we voted to turn these down. 

Garden Maintenance Updates

  • Thanks to Randy for finishing the water collection system! 

Announcements

  • The Chicken Coop has 2 openings for new members:  Sat and Thu - Email the Chicken Coop email if you would like more info about signing up. 

Important Upcoming Dates

  • Next Garden Meeting: Was scheduled for April 17

    • Since it’s only 2 weeks out, we voted to change this into another workday

    • Gardeners will be encouraged to attend to do group work and socialize. 

    • Corey will bring the weed wackers to this workday

  • Work Day: May 3 - This is the next scheduled one

  • Park Summit 2025: May 3: As mentioned above, consider if you can make this with Corey

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