** the HARVEST edition **
Greetings Fellow Gardeners!
Beginning this week, Goldenrod members can donate to the Parkdale Food Centre !! Please harvest Tuesdays and Thursdays.
The PFC will come to the garden early Wednesday and Friday to pick-up harvested items. We will use the shed for storage. Pick-up will continue 2x weekly until frost.
The shed is locked so please leave your harvested items in the tub behind the shed and Catherine (your newsletter auteur) will come by by 8 pm Tuesday and Thursday evenings to put it all away.
This is a wonderful opportunity to share your harvest with the community. Donated items will support Cooking for a Cause, a program that supplies fresh wholesome meals to seniors citizens. Please read more about all the good work that the Parkdale Food Centre does here
If you need help harvesting please contact me with your name, plot number and a list of items for harvest-donation: catherine@ibtype.com
If you would like to be part of a small “harvest” team, please reach out to the same email.
Tons of thanks to Greg Strahl for helping to make this happen!
And we can all continue to donate anytime to the Community Fridge (another important initiative spearheaded by Parkdale Food Centre). Details below.
It really does take a community to make a community garden. So, please…
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 nominationsCount 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!
Whew. That was a lot of information: the Harvest, the AGM, the Elections Officer… Perhaps now is a good time for a time for a photo? Enjoy this tiny frog, discovered near the river (.pdf version only).
Getting to Know You /a Major Donor Profile
For Greg Strahl, it all started with a television show called Coronation Street. When he was a child, watching the characters on that show garden and gather in their "allotments" fascinated him, and that vision stayed with him.
When Greg heard about volunteers coming together to establish a community garden in Kitchissippi he knew that he wanted to help. He responded to Goldenrod’s call for tools with a generous cash donation, and for that we are grateful. Why tools? Greg said that from a donor perspective the targeted "ask" triggered his desire to give.
Greg Strahl knows a lot about fundraising: he is a former Chair of the Ottawa Food Bank and today continues his involvement as a member of the building committee. The business of food insecurity and distribution intrigues, so he helps however he can.
Next year, he hopes to have his own plot at Goldenrod, but he’s going to need help because it will be his first ever opportunity to grow vegetables. Greg looks forward to learning, gardening and gathering.
Farewell Amanda Joy! A note from the Interim Board
Amanda Joy has been an enthusiastic and dedicated Secretary on Goldenrod’s interim Board of Directors. She resigned her position last week to devote more time to her career and family. We wish her all the best but just have to say - Amanda will be missed.
Tunney’s Pasture redevelopment
What happens at Tunney's Pasture will have a significant impact on the residents of our neighbourhood; the housed and the homeless, the advantaged and the disadvantaged.
The community associations representing Wellington Village, Champlain Park, Hintonburg and Mechanicsville have formed Neighbours for Tunney’s to focus on these and other Tunney’s Pasture redevelopment-related issues. Click this link for 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.
Reminders
Remember to visit the Kitchissippi outdoor Community Fridge. The rules of community fridges are simple: take what you need, leave what you can. Please find more information here.