September 2024

 Eagle Heights Garden Committee Minutes

September 11, 2024 7 PM

Remote Meeting

Alex, Lily, Pam, Jolene, Sam, Nick, Ann and Karen.

Alex started the meeting.

Minutes  With a motion by Ann and seconded Lily the August 2024 minutes were approved. 

Registrar Update

Lily said now we have 12 half plots and 7 full plots vacant.  The Tomato Tasting went well considering what a difficult tomato growing season we have had. 

The budget for next year is available for review.  So far we have spent about $7500, mostly on wages.  We have a budget of $3000 a year for plumbing and we have not spent most of it yet.  Actual revenue was close to the projected revenue in this year’s budget.  We will know how many people are paying the no work day fee in January.

We still need about 100 workday shifts for this year, but there is still time to have them. 

Redrawing the borders of the 500’s row

Lily shared the proposed redraw of the 500’s to make the borders less confusing.  She also proposes to leave half of 514 fallow due to severe flooding this year.

Motion by Ann and seconded by Karen to approve the 500’s border redraw.  Motion approved.

Closing Day

Garden closing day will be in November and a post Thanksgiving Day tool put away is planned.  

Seed Fair 2025 will be Saturday April 5th.  

Seed repackaging will be January 20, 2025.

Weed pile

The weed pile was moved to the Dining Garden by Malachai and Tary from Shorewood.  

Garden Worker Report

Nick said he has been working on plumbing projects.  He still has a couple of underground leaks to fix.  He said he needs to schedule more workdays.  Sam said getting workdays done is her priority.  Pam and Lily fixed some plumbing also.  It was noted that if we have a surprise freeze, turning on all the faucets a little bit will keep the pipes from freezing.  

There was general discussion about the plan for a second line up the main path at Eagle Heights.  Perhaps we should ask Physical Plant for advice about how to proceed.  

There was also a request for horse manure.

Motion by Karen and seconded by Lily to adjourn.

Adjourned just after 7:45pm

Submitted by Karen, subject to correction by the Garden Committee