Sunshine Community Gardens

8 April, 2021

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Sunshine Plant Swap Results

Article by Charlotte Jernigan

Spring Plant and Seed Swap was a success!

Using the great outdoors - plus masks and social distancing - we rehomed 150 -180 (forgot to count!) plants that were headed for the compost heap! Some seed swapping happened too.

Almost more importantly, the swap was an opportunity for one-on-one tomato and pepper education for the many neophyte gardeners who were stopping by, somewhat unaware that they were getting a late start relative to typical Central Texas gardening. Tips for "catching up" were the order of the day.

Special thanks goes out to Jen Woertz, Jeff Monks and Kerry Howell who donated most of the plants and to Dawn Friesen, who pitched in extra plants and labor, along with a few other spontaneous helpers who saw the commotion and helped get the giveaway started.

Angel Schatz, of Austin Organic Gardeners, help with promotion and captured still photos and video.

100% of the plant donations were rehomed!

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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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