-----Original Message----- From: Cathy Zelonis Sent: Wednesday, March 30, 2011 9:57 PM To: community_garden-boun...@list.communitygarden.org Subject: Re: [Community_garden] opposition to volunteer component of membership agreement At our garden on Staten Island if someone misses 2 months of public areas clean-up, they are out. They pay $20.00 a year dues and are required to do 2 hrs. a month from April through October. I will call to remind them near the end of the month if they haven't shown up. Unless they had an operation or something serious like that, I won't accept their lack of work. We have meetings where we have made the rules and sometimes ammended them. So the person in charge isn't really making the rules; the garden group is. If someone doesn't like something, they have to bring it up at a meeting, and people will respond to them. We did have one person who did have a tantrum when it became a real 'community' garden run by all of us. She left. We had another person who was difficult and could not comply. He left also. We didn't put these people out; they just couldn't be a part of the community, so they chose to leave. We have a mostly stable population of reponsible people. Cathy -----Original Message----- From: Gibes, Julie Sent: Wednesday, March 30, 2011 3:42 PM To: Betsy Johnson, Gina T. Cc: community_garden@list.communitygarden.org Subject: Re: [Community_garden] opposition to volunteer component of membership agreement We schedule our work days with an educational class right at the garden site. These classes are taught by local Master Gardener Volunteers. That way they can meet their fellow gardeners and learn something for free at the same time. We also host community garden open houses where they can show off their good works. Julie Julie Gibes Garden Nutrition Educator UW Extension Rock County� 51 S. Main Street-Courthouse Janesville, WI� 53545 608-757-5696 608 757-5581 (fax)�� � Along with fruits and vegetables, kids need a steady diet of rocks and worms. -----Original Message----- From: community_garden-boun...@list.communitygarden.org [mailto:community_garden-boun...@list.communitygarden.org] On Behalf Of Betsy Johnson Sent: Tuesday, March 08, 2011 7:14 PM To: Gina T. Cc: community_garden@list.communitygarden.org Subject: Re: [Community_garden] opposition to volunteer component of membership agreement It is standard for community gardens to have volunteer work requirements!! In many of the South End (Boston) Land Trust gardens, gardeners who don't fulfill those requirements pay and additional hefty fine. Having a garden plot is a privilege, not a right. Betsy Johnson 11 1/2 Greenwich Park Boston, MA 02118 617-536-1711 be...@bgjohnson.com On Mar 8, 2011, at 3:57 PM, Gina T. wrote: > Our community garden is in its third year of operation and this year we've > modified our member agreement to include 3 volunteer hours. This > requirement can be met by helping with any education sessions, clean up > days, and a host of other things. > > We've had some opposition to this requirement and one person in particular > who was a member last year is insinuating that it is inappropriate for us to > make such requirements since she pays $30 per year for the plot. > > Does your community garden have a volunteer requirement? If so, did you have > opposition to it and how did you deal with it? If you do not, why don't > you? We reviewed rules from a number of community gardens and found that we > were the only ones without this type of requirement. Plus, it seemed to be > the same 5 people (4 don't even have a plot) doing all the work at the > garden. When we had clean up days, nobody really showed up... > > Thanks for any input and advice you may be able to offer > > Gina Thomas > -------------- next part -------------- > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > URL: > <http://list.communitygarden.org/pipermail/community_garden_list.communitygarden.org/attachments/20110308/faad827e/attachment.html> > _______________________________________________ > The American Community Gardening Association listserve is only one of ACGA's > services to community gardeners. 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To learn more about the ACGA and to find out how to join, please go to http://www.communitygarden.org To post an e-mail to the list: community_garden@list.communitygarden.org To subscribe, unsubscribe or change your subscription: http://list.communitygarden.org/mailman/listinfo/community_garden_list.communitygarden.org _______________________________________________ The American Community Gardening Association listserve is only one of ACGA's services to community gardeners. To learn more about the ACGA and to find out how to join, please go to http://www.communitygarden.org To post an e-mail to the list: community_garden@list.communitygarden.org To subscribe, unsubscribe or change your subscription: http://list.communitygarden.org/mailman/listinfo/community_garden_list.communitygarden.org
