Hello St Barnabas Community Gardeners,

It’s a bit of late start for the committee, and we congratulate Jennifer and Matt, as they welcome young Blake to the world.  The Committee has been drafting up a calendar for the upcoming year, and reviewing our notes for the small changes that have been suggested at the wrap up meeting.  For the calendar, our first organizing meeting of the year will be March 16^th, 2019 , at 1:00pm in the Church undercroft.  The first meeting is mostly to collect the forms and payments for the year, and a good chance to meet your fellow gardeners and discuss plans for the upcoming season.

On that note, please find attached three documents.  These are the forms for 2019

• The Garden Rules
• The registration form, which confirms your information, fees and acknowledgment of the rules
• The waiver form

Please review the rules, which other than the dates, are unchanged from last year.  If you did not do so at the 2018 wrap up, please print the registration and waiver forms, and bring them to the meeting on the 16^th.  Seedy Saturday is also scheduled for that day over at the Community Association.

The calendar of events for next year is drafted, and we will likely have the first big work day on April 27^th, which is a bit later than last year to accommodate Easter Weekend.  Should the weather not cooperate, the work day would be deferred to May 4^th.

Work days will be spread out similar to last year, on Wednesdays and Saturdays.   The tentative schedule can be found on the Garden website – https://stbarnabasgarden.org/

Thanks, and see you on the 16^th,

Looking out the window right now, it’s hard to believe we’re two weeks away from the first scheduled workday.  Thank you everyone who attended the kick off meeting on March 17th.  We’re looking forward to another successful season, but that will require some cooperation from the weather.  Stay tuned as we approach April 21st. If it seems like it will be an unhappy work day, we may take the decision to wait until the 28th. Please see the Calendar for our currents schedule.

Please note that there are still some plots available to interested gardeners.  If you know of someone who would be interested, please contact the committee via the garden email address,  stbarnabasgarden@gmail.com .