Sunshine Weekly Weeder Newsletter
24 June 2015
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Get Your Volunteer Hours in Before June 30th Deadline (edited)
Tasks to Fulfull Your Work Hours
Tasks for TSBVI Service Hour Needed By June 30, 2015 -- updated June 23, 2015
All hours must be logged by midnight on June 30th.
The Sunshine Board has approved the following tasks for Sunshine gardeners to count toward their TSBVI Service Hour that must be completed by June 30th. Included are some special, additional tasks the board has added on "this time only basis" and will be reviewing whether to permanently add to list of approved tasks.
- Fence Line Maintenance - both street and non-street sides
Cutting out hackberry & pulling Johnson grass
NOTE: Do not remove vines since produce berries for birds
Mowing inside and outside (street sides only) of fence as needed.
Picking up trash
Picking up any rocks which mowers could hit (bad for mowers and dangerous)
NOTE: The southwest corner (non-street area west of compost area and south of chicken coop) needs work. - Compost Area
Mowing and/or weeding
Picking up trash
Picking up any rocks which mowers could hit (bad for mowers and dangerous) - Weed granite path around raised beds by parking lot across from greenhouse
- Special TSBVI Hour Workday - Saturday, June 27, 8:30 -11:00.
NOTE: Gardeners should meet at the TSBVI Garden by the tool shed.
Regular Hours
- Clean trailer
Sweep, mop, vacuum, clean refrigerator, clean bathroom & kitchen - Greenhouse and Hoop House
Remove weeds at entrance and inside
NOTE: Try to pull up the Johnson grass in greenhouse by roots - Tomato Test Plot
Add bark chips to paths - Weed granite path around raised beds by parking lot across from greenhouse
- Shovel up gravel that has washed into street by front gate and spread on driveway.
- Clean bush at south end of rock wall along fence on east side (Sunshine street) including removing hackberry trees growing up inside bush
Other tasks needed to be done - e.g abandoned plots that need to be cleaned. (please contact your zone coordinator
Micah 6 Food Bank
Got extra produce? Consider donating it to Micah 6. Please bring the produce to the cool room, (on the right as you enter the trailer), by 3pm Thursday and 9am Saturday ready for delivery to the food bank. There were 2 plots on the new " vacation picks" that were serviced last Saturday. Considering all the rain, a good amount of produce has been delivered to the Micah food bank and the volunteers there say the clients love getting the fresh produce.
To Plant in June:
Malabar Spinach, Okra, Southern Peas, Sweet Potato, and Pumpkin
Officer and Zone Coordinator Contacts - Sunshine Garden
Officers
- President - Jeff Monks garden@jeffmonks.com
- Vice President - Jim Willmann jwillmann@texasnurses.org
- Secretary - Ginny Heilman scgsecretary@gmail.com
- Treasurer - Caroline Limaye scgtreasurer1@gmail.com
- Director - Michael Hall fibercable@austin.rr.com
- Director - Kay McMurry scg.plots@gmail.com
- Director - Shannon Posern posern@hotmail.com
Zone Coordinators
- Zone 1, Jody Trendler jody.trendler@gmail.com
- Zone 2, Katy Davis katydavis@austin.rr.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, Jing Li jingli80@yahoo.com
- Zone 8, Irina Kadukova irina@austinshrooms.com
- Zone 9, Cheryl Hazeltine cph@austin.rr.com
- Zone 10, Christopher Schroder christopher.s.schroder@gmail.com
Other Coordinators
- Weekly Weeder Newsletter - Margaret Powis purslane2013@gmail.com
- Plant Sale - Michael Hall fibercable@austin.rr.com
- TSBVI Liason & Volunteer Coordinator - Janet Adams jartdaht@gmailcom
- Plot Rental - Kay McMurry scg.plots@gmail.com
- Compost Coordinator - Janet Adams jartdaht@gmail.com
- Compost Tea - Jennifer Woertz jennifer.woertz@urs.com
- Education Committee - Shannon Posern shannonposern@gmail.com
- Carpentry & Repairs - Robert Jarry r.jarry@sbcglobal.net
- Water Leak Repairs - Stewart Nichols sgwater@math.austin.tx.us
- Tools & Wheelbarrows - Bob Easter beaster1@austin.rr.com
- Website Coordinator - Sharon Rempert scgardenweb@gmail.com
Record Service Hours Online - the Virtual Green Binder