** HARVEST SEASON **
Greetings Fellow Gardeners!
Donations to the Parkdale Food Centre began this week and the quantity of items was impressive. Thanks to everyone!
Please harvest for the PFC on Tuesdays and Thursdays.
Leave your harvested items in the shade beside the rain barrel. Someone will come by at 8 pm to put everything away in the shed.
If you need help harvesting please contact catherine@ibtype.com with your name, plot number and a list of items for harvest-donation.
If you would like to be part of a small “harvest” team, please reach out to the same email.
Gathering at Goldenrod to harvest this week felt joyous and real in a way that the past few Covid months have not. People chatted, shared gardening tips, checked out each other’s plots, discussed what they would do differently next year. A handful of potatoes were exchanged for a bouquet of zinnias. A gift of ground-cherry (Physalis peruviana) delighted: they taste like a lemony-strawberry but have the consistency of melon. Three of us watched a too-comfortable field mouse traverse plots like he owned the joint. And we’re pretty sure he does…
ALERT
No pesticides/fungicides or chemical additives of any kind are permitted at Goldenrod. Please remember that the Membership Agreement you signed includes section eight which reads:
8. I understand that GCG is a fully organic community garden and I commit to gardening exclusively with organic methods, as required by the Ottawa Community Garden Network. I will not use synthetic fertilizers, pesticides, herbicides, fungicides, nor any other harmful substances in any part of the Garden.
Elections are coming and we need help. Interested in standing for election, but not sure what happens at meetings? Drop in on the next interim board meeting, Tuesday August 31 at 7 pm to see the interim board in action. Send an email to goldenrodgarden@gmail.com to receive the meeting link.
Volunteer as Goldenrod’s Election Officer
At the Annual General Meeting on October 6, members will vote to elect a Board of Directors. We’re looking for an election officer to help make democratic magic. This could be you!
An elections officer will:
Help plan the voting process
Collect board nominations
Count the vote and announce the winners
If you’re interested please submit your name via email at goldenrodgarden@gmail.com before August 31st.
Please note: the elections officer cannot compete in this Board election. And perhaps your dream is to be on Goldenrod’s Board? If so, please…
Nominate Yourself
Board of Directors: Nominations Now Open
AGM Coming Soon – 7 pm on 6 October 2021
The first Annual General Meeting for the garden is planned for 6 October 2021 when a Board of Directors will be elected to replace the interim board. Nominations for this Board are sought from current gardening members and Friends of the GCG. Why not consider submitting your name to make a valuable contribution to the operations of the Goldenrod Community Garden? You can nominate yourself, a fellow gardener, or a Friend of the GCG here, goldenrodgarden@gmail.com
Further details and links will arrive in your inbox soon. Watch for it
Getting to Know You /a Major Donor Profile
Ian Brignell is company co-Director of IB TYPE Inc and a major donor/supporter of Goldenrod Community Garden. We thank him for his donation and his innumerable efforts on behalf of the garden. He is a lettering and logo designer with the soul of a farmer.
He and his wife moved their lives and their business to Ottawa almost 4 years ago and immediately began searching for 2 things: a community initiative to support and a place to grow vegetables. Happily, they discovered Goldenrod!
Ian cultivates carrots, peppers and tomatoes in plot #63. He has just planted beets and more carrots for an autumn harvest and he has started to plan for next year; saving tomato seeds from this year’s crop.
Ian loves Goldenrod, the soil and the people he gets to meet there.
Tunney’s Pasture redevelopment
The community associations representing Wellington Village, Champlain Park, Hintonburg and Mechanicsville have formed Neighbours for Tunney’s to focus on Tunney’s Pasture redevelopment-related issues. Click this link or more information.
Community Resources, Responding with Compassion
As we continue to educate ourselves on sharing the public space that is Goldenrod, members have found these 2 links very helpful.