June 19, 2022

• Landscaping
  • Cherry plum tree isn’t doing well, proposal to remove it
  • Put a different tree there, maybe local
  • Vote at next meeting to remove or keep the tree
• Rat infestation/Trash cleanup
  • Need a professional service for removal
  • No system of trash maintenance
  • 0 waste at the garden? (please take your trash with you when leaving the garden!)
• Open hours
  • Discussion on schedule for open hours
• Community beds
  • Time to start picking and pruning!
  • Be conscious of sick plants and containing them
    • trim them back
    • don’t touch a sick plant then touch a healthy plant (germs spread :O)
• Annual summer fundraiser next Sunday 6/26 1-8 PM
  • Need help with setup, cleanup, potluck, grilling, purchasing items, putting up flyers

June 6, 2022

• Voted on purchasing 60 Gildan shirts for the two designs voted on: Shirts cost about $10 and will be priced at $20
• Compost: 
  • First bin is currently sealed so continue to use brown bins 
  • Make sure you chop with the hoe and add hay on top 
  • We are approved for curbside composting but waiting on details on when etc.

May 22, 2022

Community Beds

• Bring wine bottles for community beds

Landscape

• Weeding
  • Tetterwort (Greater Celandine) weeding
  • Morning Glory
• Plants from green thumb: Goldenrod and Mountain Mint

Compost 

• Replacing mesh on bins
• Squash plants found growing in compost :O

Open Garden Day

• Saturday, June 4th
• Gardens opening doors across north Brooklyn
• Need food donations: bagels?

Edible veggie plants up for grabs!

Water has been filled up, thanks Travis!

June 26 fundraiser

Can someone pickup mosquito dunks from Crest?

Puddle now forming due to fixes on corner of Skillman and Kingsland

• call 311 to complain about the large puddle accumulating to get enough complaints to resolve

April 24, 2022

• Mesh tops for mosquitos on the barrels have been secured!
• GreenThumb says bats are friends: exploring this option
• Voted YES to redo top of compost bin with timber rather than mesh to allow compost to decompose at a more rapid rate
• Open Garden Day June 4, 12-7PM:
  • We need someone to make fliers
  • We need volunteers to ask community businesses for donations
• Voted YES to having Charlie Waters’ band play in the garden on the following dates:
  • May 15
  • June 4
  • June 12
• GreenThumb plant distribution is May 7 – Need someone with car to help with that:
  • Pick up 10am – 1pm:UCC Youth Farm (620 Schenck Ave, Brooklyn)
    • Green Oasis Community Garden (372 East 8th St, Manhattan)
    • New 123rd Street Block Association Garden (116 W 123rd St, Manhattan)
    • Friends of Brook Park Garden (494 East 141st St, Bronx)
  • This year marks the return to the in-person plant distribution and an expansion to 4 locations! They are excited to offer each garden 4 flats of plant starts total:
    • 2 flats of veggies/flowers/herbs mix sourced from Rise & Root Farm
    • 2 flats of native plants mix provided by Greenbelt Native Plant Center
• Art Installation (still waiting on additional details):
  • Interviews conducted last year about climate change are being brought to life on aluminum, brightly colored 24×24 signs
  • Signs include question inspired by interviews with QR code link to audio collages of interviews of different gardeners from past year
  • Looking for us to put up 1 of the signs in the garden starting the week before Open Garden Days – December 15th. Hoping to have Park 12×12 sign with it indicating the art installation
  • We voted YES

April 9, 2022

• It hailed
• Open Garden Days:
  • We voted to communicate to GreenThumb the below open hours
    • MON – THURS 4pm-7pm
    • SAT – 9am – 2pm
    • SUN – closed
• We voted on getting new lids for water allocating $200  – it should be $15-20 each per lid
• The Department of Sanitation requested to use the garden to give out compost bags:
  • 3 pallets total in June or July for a few days
  • They will drop off and then pick up after the event
  • We are already getting 3 pallets delivered in that time frame so will just need to coordinate around 
  • Ariel to pass on to Outreach to reach out – we might see if Olive Garden can do it instead
• Seed Library:
  • We will have a dropbox with seeds to give to the library. Seeds will be sorted into a labeled case and binder with inventory/place to check out seeds.
  • We voted yes to allocating $35-$50 towards a clear binder and box for seeds
• Compost:
  • 2 People came by Sunday to look at the compost bin – will need an update on that in the next meeting.
• Website:
  • Mica to bring camera to next meeting to take pics for the website (postponed to 5/7)
• Continue to be careful and on the lookout for needles when weeding, picking up trash etc. Be sure to wear gloves
• Community beds look amazing!! Make sure to not step on the wood
• Proposed date for planting: May 1 :)

March 20, 2022

• Greenthumb
  • Mary picked up supplies from Greenthumb
    • pruners, gloves, watering cans, etc
• Communications
  • Mica Finehart voted in as Communications co-chair
• Water
  • Travis turned water on
• Seeds
  • Joe, Tina, Anna announced beginning of seed library
• Events
  • Voted to make Red Shed Garden last stop for the Open Garden day, which will entail hosting duties. Need more info.
• Compost
  • Vote was taken to repair compost bins only and plan for further proposal and work to be done off season.
  • Compost was sorted and removed from first and last bins to facilitate inspection for repairs
• General
  • Community beds completely revamped. Huge project that went great. Need to use available soil to fill in new community beds
  • Pile of Wood chips were distributed throughout garden
• Small rocks removed from middle garden beds near center lawn

4/9 Agenda

• Corey proposing using funds to deal with mosquito eradication