Sunshine Community Gardens

Sunshine Plant Swap

Rained out ** Rescheduled for Sunday ***

Sunday April 4, 2021
4:30pm to 5:30pm
Sunshine Plant Swap & Seed Exchange Free but $ Donations Accepted $

• Do you still need plants?
• Did you "over buy" for your available space or did you sprout too many transplants?
• Do you have seeds to share?

Great! Please bring'em to the swap....But something to "swap" not required - just come along! In addition to individual plant or seed contributions, Jen & Jeff will be donating the last of their Spring Plant Sale inventory (mostly peppers) and we will see what else people show up with. Everything free unless you feel like donating to "the jar."Please: All Plants and Seeds MUST BE LABELED. Thank you! Take or give, whichever side of the equation you are on, mask up and come to the garden at 11am on Saturday 4/3/21 to re-home unused plants and seeds.Any "gratitude bucks" will be turned over SCG.For questions, please contact charlotte@cybermesa.com or Slack DM

Outdoors ~ Mask Required ~ Social Distancing ~ Mask Required ~ Outdoors

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Plants Donated to Schools and Non-Profits

Article by Carol Limaye

Traditionally, Sunshine Community Gardens donates the plants leftover from the plant sale to schools and non-profit organizations. Even though we did not run a plant sale this year, the board wanted to have plants available to give away as before. To make this happen, we purchased extra transplants at a deep discount and put out the word to schools and non-profits that plants were available. Priority was given to TSBVI, PEAS (Partners in Education, Agriculture and Sustainability) and New Day Community Gardens. In addition, Jim Willmann contacted the Central Texas School Garden Network. As a result, we gave 303 plants to schools, 102 plants to community gardens and 194 plants to non-profits such as Boy and Girl Clubs.

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Nominees Needed for Sunshine Board

Elections in May - Positions begin June 1, 2021

Interested in getting more involved and helping with Sunshine operations? If so, please consider running for one of three open board positions! Nominations due by 04-18-2021.

There are seven members on the Board - President, Vice President, Secretary, and Treasurer and three Directors. All members serve a two-year term, using alternating election years.

The following Board members' terms are expiring at the end of May 2021

• Steve Uecker - President
• Jim Willmann - Vice president
• Carol Limaye - Treasurer

The following Board members terms are still in progress:

• Secretary - Kerry Drake
• Director - Kay McMurry
• Director - Doug Zullo
• Director - Marsha Riti

The nominating committee wants to thank both outgoing and remaining Board members for a very productive two years, especially given the special circumstances of the Covid-19 Quarantine in 2020.

Requirements to Join SCG Board

• Enthusiasm for helping Sunshine evolve while serving our mission, our members and our community.
• Ensuring sound management of Sunshine's finances and assets.
• Being willing to carve out the extra volunteer time needed to manage SCG operations; ready to "go the extra mile" in your volunteerism.
• Be a member in good standing for at least six months.

Please check Sunshine's Bylaws for individual position descriptions.

Nomination Deadline April 18, 2021

Please contact any member of the 2021 Nominating Committee if you would like to nominate yourself or another SCG member for one of the three open positions of President, Vice-President or Treasurer.

• Ila Falvey - ila.falvey@gmail.com
• Kerry Howell - dinkster@gmail.com
• Jennifer Boley - jennifer.boley@neoproject.org
• Janet Adams - jartdaht@gmail.com
• Renee Fleishman - rfleishman@att.net
• Amy Grossman - amydgrossman@gmail.com

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Code-of-Conduct Committee

Article by Kay McMurry

We are forming a committee to create a more comprehensive set of guidelines on garden etiquette and how to deal with conflicts between members of our garden and are looking for a few people to serve on it. Your participation counts towards your regular service hours. Our current conduct guidelines in the Site Rules consist of one paragraph:

• This is a community garden. Other members are our neighbors. There should be no harassment, threats, verbal abuse or acts of violence by any person against any other person. Such acts should be reported to the Board. If necessary, proper authorities will be called. Any person committing such acts may have their membership terminated.

Our goal is to develop some guidelines for dealing with negative interactions that rise to the level of reporting and lay out some procedures for handling conflicts among gardeners. Please contact Marsha Riti (marshariti@gmail.com) or Kay McMurry (scg.plots@gmail.com) if you're interested in or have questions about serving on this committee.

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Weeder Content

Please email your article or suggestion to Holly Gilman by end of day Wednesday.

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