Sunshine Community Gardens

11 November, 2021

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In This Issue

• Veterans Day Thank You
• Call for Holiday Recipes
• 2021 Service Hours Reminder
• Nancy Seibert Memorial
• Garden Tasks for Service Hours

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Veterans Day Thank You

Thank you for your service to all of our gardeners who are veterans.

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Call for Holiday Recipes

Do you have a favorite Thanksgiving side dish? Something festive you love to make for Christmas or Chanukah or the Winter Solstice? A popular potluck dish that you take to holiday gatherings? Something elegant to nibble on while you wait to ring in the New Year? A special dish to make 2022 a lucky year? Share your recipes with your fellow gardeners! (Bonus points if it uses produce from your garden or other local seasonal foods.)

Send your favorite holiday recipes to both Weekly Weeder co-editors: Holly Gilman (hollyjgilman@gmail.com) and Maria Beach (dr.maria.beach@gmail.com). Tell us what holiday or occasion the dish is for, along with any memories or stories you may wish to share about the recipe.

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2021 Service Hours Reminder

Remember that the 2021 Spring and Fall service hour seasons have ben combined and gardeners must work all the combined hours by December 31st.

This means a full plot gardener will need to work 2 TSBVI hours and 16 regular hours between 1/1/2021 and 12/31/2021; half and quarter plot gardeners 2 TSBVI hours and 8 regular hours.

Any unworked hours as of 12/31 will be billed in January and must be paid before a gardener can renew membership for Spring 2022. All hours worked and recorded in the spring will be automatically included in calculating the total hours worked in 2021. Gardeners are encouraged to check the Green Binder on the SCG website (Sunshine Community Gardens) to verify their recorded hours. Gardeners still needing to work hours should check the list of needed tasks at the end of this Weeder.

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Nancy Seibert Memorial--Save the Date

A memorial and celebration of Nancy Seibert's life will be held at Sunshine Community Garden on Sunday, December 5, 2021 - 2pm.

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Garden Tasks

Thursday, 11 November, 2021

Priority (Tasks specifically needed):

1. Digging up khaki weed, wherever you find it (Counts as TSVBI hours).
   • We have had success on the last 4 workdays addressing this problem. We will have another workday on Saturday 11/20. Folks are encouraged, however, to attack it at any time the mood strikes them. Grab some garden friends and 86 some Khaki weeds, it doesn't get any better! Preferably daylight hours.
2. Maintaining common paths and common areas. If you have plants extending into common paths, trim them. The common paths are designed to allow the biggest wheelbarrows that we own to traverse them unimpeded.
3. Mowing and maintaining perimeter fence line inside and out.
4. Sunshine Community Garden was fined a few weeks ago for the dumpster being over filled. Please help us to avoid this by following a few simple guidelines.
   1. Fill the dumpster from the back (under the hinges) to the front. If you put stuff in the front, it tends to stay there.
   2. If you think the dumpster is full, contact me (Steve Camp, I'm there a lot) or Randy Thompson. We can usually compact stuff to make more space.
   3. Follow the rules regarding what goes into the dumpster and what does not, there's signage close by.
   4. If the dumpster actually does get full before pick up day, I'm working on finding a spot where we can store a reasonable overage, to be loaded after the dumpster is emptied.
   5. If you're done with your project, please close the lids.

TSVBI:

1. Weeding paths in TSBVI garden and wood chip areas on west side. (This is normally needed. Try to get out roots. Be sure to smooth out paths after weeding to facilitate TSBVI students moving around garden).
2. Mowing between fence and street along 49th St. and Sunshine Dr. along and 10' inside fence. (Frequent mowing will be needed this time of year.)
3. Picking up trash in compost area and along fence lines.

Regular:

1. Mowing (Please check area around trailer and greenhouses.
2. Maintaining common paths. (Gardeners are required to maintain a 2' strip of common paths adjacent to their plot.)
3. Mowing and cleaning up overgrown/messy places in common areas.
4. Cleaning street curb gutters of dirt and debris build up. (At places in the curb gutter along Sunshine Dr. and 49th St., soil and debris has built up and grass beginning to grow. Scrape off with shovel and put in wheelbarrow. If debris is gravel can be put in low places in parking lot. Otherwise, put in dumpster.)

Note: TSBVI hour tasks can also count as regular hours.

Slow Down..You're on Garden Time! Enjoy!

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Weeder Content

Please submit weekly weeder articles, photos, and recipes by Wednesday to both Co-Editors:
Holly Gilman at hollyjgilman@gmail.com and
Maria Beach at dr.maria.beach@gmail.com

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