Community Garden Members and Friends,
Our garden "bank" from tomato sales is at $105. We could use at least part of this for soil amendments for our pots and for our decorative row of sunflowers and pinto beans. (I have been watering up the front of the lot so we can perhaps get our shovels in the ground to plant these things.)
When we stopped selling plants, we still had many left. I have kept them alive (mostly), recently transferring them to church congregations that indicated interest. St. Alice's took a couple of trays to hand out to parishioners. Church of the Nazarene took some, and the Asamblea de Dios took a few. The remainder I will deliver to the Senior Center before the week is out. We'll keep a few for our containers and bales.
Thanks to rhose who did the work of starting and raising the seedlings -- Rebecca, Kay, Addie, Deb, and Tomas, and whoever else was involved. If the Mountainair Farm & Garden Market buys a covering license for seedlings, we can do this again next year. We can also start other kinds of plants to sell throughout the market season. If the Market decides not to do this, we can designate one person to be the plant-sales guru and get a license for that person.
The Art Center Board [sic?] was to vote this week on whether to invite us to start up this effort in the vacant lot they lease along with their building. The Board has multiple plans for this large lot, so we will keep the garden "moveable" while they sort out how it will be used. I went back to the Town Office and explained to the powers that we had changed our minds about the city lot due to its compaction and the lateness of the scheduled vote on whether we could start. We will not, therefore, be on the agenda for approval at next week's council meeting.
Hope to see many of you and your friends on Saturday.
Don't forget your containers!
Joan Embree
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