Hello St Barnabas Community Gardeners,
We hope everyone has had a wonderful winter and is excited for the upcoming gardening season.
The preliminary calendar for the coming year is available. Our first meeting of the year will be on Saturday April 5th, at 10:00 AM in the Church undercroft.
Attendance at this meeting is mandatory, either by yourself or a delegate. This meeting allows us to confirm plot assignments and communicate essential information about how we run the garden. If you absolutely cannot attend and cannot delegate to someone else who can attend, please let us know, and complete the documents and payments electronically.
The kick-off meeting allows us to discuss any updates to rules and policies for the year. With predictions of a drought this year, we may wish to discuss additional approaches we can take as a garden. And of course, the meeting is a chance to reconnect with your fellow gardeners, who hopefully you will be seeing around the garden throughout the year.
The forms for the season can be found on our website at https://stbarnabasgarden.org/general-information/:
- The Garden Rules
- The registration form, which confirms your information, fees, and acknowledgment of the rules
- The waiver form
Please review the rules, which, besides the dates, reinforce the ‘community’ aspect of the Garden. We do need your commitment to attending your share of the group workdays and to the upkeep of common areas between workdays. The dates for planting and clean-out are the same as last year; we want to make sure that plots are used and kept tidy.
If things have changed and you are not returning, we need to know that too, please let us know right away!
After the registration day, the first big event for the year is the workday on Saturday, April 26th. It worked last year, so we have it in the afternoon, at 1 PM, when things warm up enough to be productive. If the weather is truly uncooperative, the workday would be deferred to May 3rd.
We currently have the other workdays the same as previous years, on Wednesdays and Saturdays. We will review this approach at the kick-off meeting, and possibly post a poll, if there is a consensus that these schedules do not work for most gardeners.
Finally, it used to be that our kick-off meetings were compatible with Seedy Saturday, both for dates and locations. This year’s Seedy Saturday is on Saturday, March 22, 2025, at Bowness Community Association (7904 43 Ave NW, Calgary AB T3B 4P9). You can find more information at http://calgaryseedysaturday.ca/
Thanks, and see you soon!
St. Barnabas Community Garden 