SDFCG Garden Meeting Notes: Oct 19, 2025
St Davids Foundation Community Garden Admin Account
Garden Meeting Notes: Oct 19, 2025: 5pm
Attendees
Rosa, Debbie, Sam, Dana, Bob, Dana, Caroline, Katie, Corey
Agenda & Discussion
Introductions & New Gardeners
Intro and announcements
Links to resources:
Garden Website: https://sites.google.com/site/sdfcommunitygarden/home
Google Group Emails Archive: https://groups.google.com/g/sdf-community-garden
Luma Events: https://luma.com/SDFCommunityGarden?k=c
Work Hours Log: Work Hours Tracking
APF Payment Form (for fees/donations)
Discord - If you don’t have a login, email SDFCommun...@gmail.com
Work Hour Tracking
All Gardeners are required to complete 2 hours of work per month to stay in good standing.
This is in addition to your work on your plots.
Hours must be logged on the Work Hours Google Sheet by each gardener
Once a quarter you can pay a $10 fee instead of completing your hours.
Discussion: How to make sure people are aware of what they can do
Pinning priorities in the Discord Groups - will start using this to remind people what they can do on their own.
Plot Inspections
Sun Nov 9 will be the date of the next quarterly inspection
Gardeners will have 1 month to get plots into good standing if they don’t pass
Remember, what we check for per the garden contract:
Are there plants that are actively being maintained or has the plot been seasonally winterized/solarized?
Has the area been weeded and clear of invasive plants?
Is the garden only using organic gardening methods and abiding to the garden water conservation policy?
Have tools and supplies been properly stored and maintained?
Is the plot in proper boundaries and the surrounding pathways wide enough for a wheelbarrow to pass?
It’s My Park Day
Please register and spread work with others in our community about helping
Project Focus:
Cleaning out teaching gardens
Planting in the common areas
Improve the paths
Do we want to purchase decomposed granite for the paths?
VOTED and approved up to $400 in decomposed granite for the trails.
Additional tools and supplies needed.
If you volunteer, you get a free t-shirt which gets you a lot of other discounts and benefits with local restaurants and services.
Garden Finances
Corey reported on Garden Finances
We are in good shape with our balance
Last water bill was $130.
Committee Updates:
Compost, Trash & Recycling
Budget for improvements for bins?
Corey will check follow up with Agata about spec’ing out plans
Collecting leaves - Check and see if this group is planning on collecting bags
Collecting leaves in the fall gives us browns to mix with the greens all year round.
Trash Pickup:
There’s a mattress that is on the path down to the creek - will want to make sure people aren’t camping and leaving trash
Outreach & Communication
Catholic Pilgrimage - Group will be visiting the garden on Nov 8 as part of Pilgrims of Hope.
Thanks to Debbie for being our lead contact for this!
Leader from their group came by to do a walk through last week
They’ll be at the garden for 37 mins - between stops on the train - They’ll do a short prayer and then go back to the train station
They might have some people with disabilities so will be using accessible trails.
Signs: Consider what other signs we can get in the next 3 weeks to make the garden more welcoming
Water and Snacks - They don’t want anything pre-packaged stuff
Ok if we want to provide anything baked
Number of people? 10-100? Not sure yet.
Do we have any asks of them?
Volunteer Days
Donation - Bitly donation link QR code
Rosa - volunteered to come and take pictures - Debbie will check that’s ok.
Common Garden Areas (Pollinator, Orchards, Welcome Garden, Pocket Prairie)
Caroline - redesigning the layout in the north pollinator garden
Minimize paths, less wedding and more plants and useful space
San Marcos nursery - might be on hold getting this done
We’ve approved up to $200 in plant supplies for the common areas
Inevitable Homegrown - Organic in practice but not certified
We can get a wholesale rate with our nonprofit status
Prairie - Continuing to work on getting seeds in this area.
Turks Cap - Deb said that there are some we can transplant to another area.
Status of the Mini-grant - Should know next week
Shed & Inventory
No updates
Will be making a purchase of sprayers so we have working ones through the winter
Maintenance
Reminder that there are repair supplies (like washers) for hoses and sprayers in the shed
The 2 hoses by plot 5 were broken - not sure what happened?
Reminder about turning the spigots off and the hose sprayers open - this will extend the life of the hoses and sprayers and prevent other damage
Announcements
Seed Swap: Seed Swap Doc - We still have seeds available. Contact Katie if you'd like to pick more up.
Next Workday: Nov 1, 2025 - It’s My Park Day!
Next Meeting: Sun Nov 15, 10am