February 7, 2022

Great news! Nely found a bargain on picnic table and benches for $20 a piece. She is donating them to the ministry. John M. will be picking them up from the store this week.

Last Saturday was a productive day. Here’s what was completed:

1. Compost pile #2 was topped off with leaves and cow manure - Julia, Clara, Milton and Gailane

2. Beds 4 through 6 were connected to the timer. The timer was set to water 3 times a week for 3 minutes. - Milton

3. Beds 5 and 6 was sowed with Beans - Gailane and Milton

4. Sifted dirt pile to remove rocks - Milton

5. John M. popped by with 2 scoops of veggie mix. Now we can start our container gardening activities.

Plan for Saturday, February 11th.

1. Container gardening. Please bring extra planting containers, seeds and seedlings.

2. Check soil and plant conditions   

3. Remove leaves and chips blocking air and light.

4. Sift rocks from dirt pile for container gardening

5. Remove any weeds

6. Continue documenting activities

Plan for Sunday, February

Booth and Announcements

• March classes

• Zoom

• Bunco fundraising

• Joining the ministry
  

Fri, Jan 27

We had another successful meet up last Saturday. We found the cilantro plants had red leaves. We suspect it is due to low nitrogen levels. We thought this might be a possibility as the wood chips break down and remove the nitrogen from the soil. We added seasoned cow manure and will see how it does. We checked conditions of soil under wood chips  and the condition of all plants. We replanted as needed and remove leaves and chips blocking air and light. We planted seedling and direct sowed. We filled first compost pile.

Mon, Jan 23

Last Thursday we had a productive Zoom meeting with ministry members. We opened up in prayer. Then we discussed Bunco preparations, and planned for January and February Saturday activities. We announced we need volunteers for leading Saturday morning activities in March. My wife and I will be providing gardening classes so we won't be able to lead the garden activities that month.

During the meeting it was brought up that we should call up members that have signed up and personally welcome them to the ministry. The hope is  we get more participation on Saturday mornings. A list will be sent to volunteers to make official welcome calls to members.

Jessica volunteered to help with documenting our ministry activities via photo. These will be used to track our progress and post photo online to encourage others to join. 

Saturday morning, January 20th, we continued with planting seedlings. So far 4 out of 6 beds are planted. We also started our first compost pile. John Massie delivered our Back to Eden sign which is hung on the fence. He also made some labeled stakes for our plants!