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Dale Kutzera
Feb 23, 2022, 7:02:56 PM2/23/22
to Thyme P Patch
Hello all,
I have tried to decipher the attached email on how to access burlap bags...but life is too short. I can't figure it out and so I'll provide this information and see if any of you want to pursue this.
Regards,
Dale
Hello all burlap pick up people!
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From: Christal Boutte <slybo...@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, Feb 9, 2022 at 10:01 AM
Subject: How to get burlap from Good Shepherd Center
To:
From: Christal Boutte <slybo...@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, Feb 9, 2022 at 10:01 AM
Subject: How to get burlap from Good Shepherd Center
To:
Hello all burlap pick up people!
We have a spreadsheet that you will access, and add to, to manage this burlap system efficiently. Feel free to explore (but only change as instructed)
this spreadsheet 
Burlap
Bag Donation.xlsx Let me know if you need help with
anything.
Burlap
Bag Donation.xlsx Let me know if you need help with
anything.The first thing you will add to the spreadsheet - Burlap
Bag Donation.xlsx will be the APPROXIMATE number of plots at the garden you are delivering to. Tilth Alliance and the Garden Hotline need this information to reference, for providing future support. Write this number in the second column labeled “Estimated # of Plots at Garden”, next to your garden’s name, in the tab labeled “Burlap Tracking”.
Burlap
Bag Donation.xlsx will be the APPROXIMATE number of plots at the garden you are delivering to. Tilth Alliance and the Garden Hotline need this information to reference, for providing future support. Write this number in the second column labeled “Estimated # of Plots at Garden”, next to your garden’s name, in the tab labeled “Burlap Tracking”. For a P-Patch garden, this number will be the number of patches in your garden. For non P-Patch gardens, write a ballpark number, that reflects the # of people who regularly eat produce from the garden (which is impossible to calculate). For Crown Hill Community Garden where I volunteer, as you can see, I wrote 30. I thought about this number for about 5 seconds. I encourage non P-Patch gardeners to do what I did, to come up with a number.
If it is your turn to pick up, and you want to see how many bags are currently in the pile, see the last entry in the "Total Remaining" column of the "Burlap Tracking" tab. Ladro
is currently delivering 100-130 bags per month, which might change. They will be delivering once or twice a month, until further notice. Track their deliveries on the spreadsheet!
The Good Shepherd Center is located at 4649 Sunnyside Ave N, Seattle WA 98103. Burlap will be stored on the south side of the land, on pallets covered with a tarp (see attached images for exactly where the burlap will be stored).
You will drive north on Corliss Ave N, until you are met with a locked gate/posts. Park as close to the gate as possible without blocking it as other people use this area to walk through. Get out of your vehicle, and go through the pedestrian entrance, turn left, keep
walking and keep your eyes peeled for a pile of burlap that will be on your left next to a dumpster. Carry the burlap out to your car. Please leave any burlap you do not take neatly stacked, and replace the tarp exactly as you found it. If you take all the
burlap, fold the tarp up neatly, and put a stone or weight on top of it. If there is no tarp, don't worry about the tarp! You can take 200 bags maximum, per pickup.
Selena would very much appreciate it, if you would enter the date and time you plan to get bags in the column labelled "Date and Time of Pickup", and how many bags you will take in the "Quantity of Burlap P/U", next to your organization
name, on the spreadsheet, in the "Burlap Tracking" tab ON THE MONDAY BEFORE YOU PICKUP BURLAP. Selena will be updating and checking the spreadsheets on Mondays.
If you end up taking a different amount of burlap than you originally planned, update the spreadsheet with the correct amount.
If for some reason it is impossible for you to figure out how to use this spreadsheet, you can email Selena the information at selena...@tilthalliance.org,
but try, Selena's not looking for more work!
At the bottom of this email, and in the "Contact Sheet" tab of the spreadsheet, you will see the burlap phone tree. The order of the phone tree is the order which people will pick up burlap, it is organized from closest to the GSC, to furthest away. The
first garden to pick up was Freeway Estates Community Orchard, and the last will be New Holly Youth and Family P-Patch. We have capped the list at 24 gardens, so do NOT spread the word about this burlap list, we won't put anyone else on the list unless one of the
current gardens drops out!
The exact frequency of pick ups is uncertain, because you are free to take up to 200 burlap bags, or as little as you want. We think pickups will be about monthly. You can wait until there are 200 bags in the pile before picking up, but don't wait more than a couple weeks after the pile reaches 200 bags, that would be inconsiderate.
Remember the pickup window is Wednesdays, Thursdays, and Fridays from 10am-4pm.
It is your job as a pick up person to 1) write in the spreadsheet the Monday before you come the time and date you will pickup, and how many bags you plan to take 2) take the burlap you want, deliver it to the garden that you specified, 3) update the spreadsheet
with how many bags you actually took, if different than you planned, and 4) contact the next person on the phone tree, tell them how many bags are left in the pile, and the date you picked the bags up.
Please call AND email the person after you on the phone tree in the next couple of weeks. I hope everyone on this phone tree will use the principle of over communication, and if they don’t get a response from the person after them, text them, leave a voicemail,
and email them to establish contact. Ask the person after you what their preferred means of communication is.
If there is a backup pick up person for the same garden, then it is the primary pick up person’s job to contact the backup person in the next couple of weeks to work out the logistics for pickup for your garden.
See map of all participating gardens attached! Keep close-to-you-gardens in mind for future collaborations!
The Garden Hotline is awesome for hosting this burlap pile. They provide all sorts of gardening support, check out their website: www.gardenhotline.org
-Christal Boutte
Just Garden Project/Crown Hill Community Garden
1. Freeway Estates Community Orchard 1.2 miles from The Good Shepherd Center
Ruth Callard
2. Linden Orchard P-Patch 1.8 miles
Betty Terrell
3. Ravenna Community Garden 2.2 miles
Thomas Hargrave
4. UW Farm 2.3 miles
Dannette Lombert
UW Farm backup pickup person
Perry Acworth
5. Eastlake P-Patch 2.5 miles
Marilee Fuller
6. Picardo P-Patch 2.9 miles
Irene and Andy Iwata
Picardo backup pickup person
Milton Tam
7. Greenwood Station P-Patch 3.2 miles
Annika Dragovich
8. Licton Springs P-Patch 3.3 miles
Dale Marston
Licton Springs P-Patch back-up pickup person
Patti McCallum
9. Thyme P-Patch 3.7 miles
Dale Kutzera
10. Thomas St P-Patch 3.8 miles
Martha McKee
Thomas St P-Patch backup pickup person
Brett Ronneburg
11. Nathan Hale High School Urban Farm 4.2 miles
Matt Davis
12. Interbay P-Patch 4.2 miles
Mary Ruth Mann
13. Crown Hill Community Garden 4.6 miles
Beau Lynn-Miller
14&15. Republican P-Patch 4.6 mi/Nova High School
Norman LeMoine
16. Ballard P-Patch 4.7 miles
Shawn Mincer
Ballard P-Patch backup pickup person
Tom Kinzi
17. Magnuson P-Patch 4.7 miles
Susan Eggers
Magnuson P-Patch backup pickup person
Thomas Hargrave
18. Haller Lake P-Patch 5.1 miles
Andrew Benson
19. Jackson Park P-Patch 5.1 miles
Kirsten Sullivan
20. Judkin’s P-Patch 6.9 miles
Russ Childers
21. Colman Park P-Patch 7.9 miles
Megan Feerestien
22. Rainier Vista East Sunrise P-Patch 8.6 miles
Elizabeth Hensley
23. Delridge P-Patch 9.2 miles
Linda Strandberg
24. New Holly Youth and Family P-Patch 10 miles
Daphne Schneider
Laura Kett
Feb 23, 2022, 9:49:16 PM2/23/22
to Dale Kutzera, Thyme P Patch
That is hilarious. What a long email of directives! Sounds like people are picking up in order and you follow a guy from Lichton Springs named Dale. I have been to the pick-up garden before and am happy to do the pick up once you get the call or text or email. Thanks for getting us on the list :). The pick-ups are Wed/Thur/Fri 10-4...but that seems weird as they are just in a pile. Anyway, let me know when you get the call and I can fill in the tabs on the form they set up. How many are we getting?
here is your list of who/whom you follow:
. Licton Springs P-Patch 3.3 miles
Dale Marston
Licton Springs P-Patch back-up pickup person
Patti McCallum
9. Thyme P-Patch 3.7 miles
Dale Kutzera
Laura S. Kett
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