Sunshine Community Gardens

Come, Eat, Hear Music and Be Merry at Sunshine's Holiday Potluck Party

The Holiday Potluck is on 12/8/19 Sunday at 5-7 pm. The gathering will include live music, potluck supper, and the company of all of your gardening friends... with a bonus of holiday gifts. If you would like to help with this event, please contact Ila Falvey at ila.falvey@gmail.com.

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Fall Service Hours Deadline Nears; Workdays Scheduled

December 31 is last date to complete fall season service hours - both TSBVI and regular. Don't forget to record your hours in the Virtual Green Binder on Sunshine website. An unrecorded hour is an unworked hour. Unworked hours will be billed: TSBVI: $50/hr. First Two Regular: $30/hr.; Subsequent Regular: $10/hr. Gardeners can also use the Green Binder to see how many hours they need to complete. To help gardeners complete their hours, workdays are scheduled for Saturday 12/14 and Saturday 12/28. Watch future Weeders and your email for additional information about the workdays and tasks needed to be done.

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Let the Sunshine In - Upcoming Classes at Sunshine

"Fantastic Fungi"

Monday Evening December 9, 2019
6:30 - 9 pm
Austin Film Society Theater
6406 N I-35 Suite 3100 Austin, TX 78752

Watch: Fantastic Fungi Screenings & Trailer

There will a short talk and Q&A before the screening.

Whether or not you have attended the SCG education on the soil-food-web (No-Till or Low-Till Vegetable Gardening) you will find the facts about mushrooms, and the other fungi that underpin all of nature, fascinating and amazing.

Fungi can serve us on a small scale as gardeners and, on a large scale, as our partners in world ecology. Come open your mind and expand your knowledge of these powerful allies for the health of people, garden plots and planets.

Each person will pay for their own movie ticket and refreshments but AFS will give us a discount on ticket prices if our group is large enough. Email your RSVP. We need an accurate headcount to negotiate a discount and also to send each attendee the finalized details of the event.

Use this link to purchase and enter your number of tickets where is says Sunshine.

To receive accurate updates on event detail as they evolve, please also rsvp via an email to: scg_education_team@yahoo.com

"Tool, Tools, Tools - Select, Care, Sharpen - Making Your Life Easier"

Saturday January 18 - Time TBD

Our own SCG Tool Master, Bob Easter, plus special guest:

Sheryl Williams
Horticulture Program Assistant
Texas A&M AgriLife Extension

RSVP Commitment Required - An Eventbrite Invitation will be sent

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Upcoming Events

First Friday Fair

December 6, 2019

The First Friday Fair is December 6th at the Violet Crown Clubhouse on Woodrow Avenue. (Across from Little Deli). Several small businesses will be selling their homemade items, there will be free beer and wine, and Santa will be there! Event begins at 5:00 and runs until 9:00. Come get the annual Santa photo for a $5 donation to the playground effort at Brentwood Park! Questions? Feel free to reach out to Susan Wallar swallar@gmail.com. Hope to see you there!!

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Zilker Botanical Garden

Santa in the Garden

December 7th, 2019
10:00 a.m. - 2:00 p.m.

It's that time of year again! Santa has come all the way from the North Pole just to see YOU at Zilker Botanical Garden!

Skip the lines at the mall and bring the family to meet Santa and Mrs. Clause in the Visitor's Center to the right of the parking lot within the garden grounds. Bring your camera and grab that perfect shot while enjoying Christmas activities, snacks, and get some shopping done in our gift shop as well!

Cost: Free with garden admission.

RSVP via Facebook Event.

Officer and Zone Coordinator Contacts - Sunshine Gardens

Officers

• President- Steve Uecker steven_uecker@hotmail.com
• Vice-President - James "Jim" Willmann jhwillmann@gmail.com
• Secretary - Noelle Letteri nletteri@yahoo.com
• Treasurer - Caroline Limaye scgtreasurer1@gmail.com
• Director - Linda Booker lindaruthbooker@gmail.com
• Director - Jeff Taylor kscjtaylor@prodigy.net
• Director - Randy Thompson jartdaht@gmail.com

Email the board.

Zone Coordinators

• Zone 1, Susan Wallar swallar@gmail.com
• Zone 2, Wayne Kuenstler wckuenstler@gmail.com
• Zone 3, Ludmila Voskov lvoskov@austin.rr.com
• Zone 4, Ila Falvey ila.falvey@gmail.com
• Zone 5, Mary Gifford mgifford@austin.rr.com
• Zone 6, Charlotte Jernigan charlotte@cybermesa.com
• Zone 7, Jeff Schulz chilihead.schulz@gmail.com
• Zone 8, Steve Uecker steven_uecker@hotmail.com
• Zone 9, Kerry Howell casonhowell@gmail.com
• Zone 10, Christopher Schroder christopher.s.schroder@gmail.com &
  Karl Arcuri karl.w.arcuri@gmail.com

Other Personnel

• Weekly Weeder Newsletter - Holly Gilman hollyjgilman@gmail.com
• Plant Sale - Randy Thompson & Janet Adams jartdaht@gmailcom
• TSBVI Liaison & Volunteer Coordinator - Janet Adams jartdaht@gmailcom
• Plot Assignment - Kay McMurry scg.plots@gmail.com
• Compost Coordinator - Janet Adams jartdaht@gmail.com
• Carpentry & Repairs - Robert Jarry r.jarry@sbcglobal.net
• Water Leak Repairs - Steve Schulz sschulz784@aol.com
• Tools & Wheelbarrows - Bob Easter beaster1@austin.rr.com
• Kitchen Supplies - Anita Keese anodekraft1@msn.com
  (If supplies are needed for events, contact by email or at 512-773-2178)
• Compost Tea - Jennifer Woertz jen@enjeneer.com
• Micah 6 - Dana Kuykendall kuykendall@austin.rr.com
• Micah 6 - Mary Gifford mgifford@austin.rr.com
• Website Coordinator - Sharon Rempert scgardenweb@gmail.com