Here are the minutes from March's meeting.

Mark Your Calenders!

To Be Determined...

Soon there will be a post directing where to drop off tool donations and/or personal tools you'd like to contribute for use in the garden. Please please please!! label your tools clearly to ensure their safe return. Any lost/stolen/damaged tools will be reimbursed by the garden.

Josh Hayes

Josh spoke to the group about the possibility of using horses to plow our garden. This suggestion was met with enthusiastic responses from the group. He has contacts that may be able to do this soon; more information to be posted by those involved. If you are interested in Josh's work with draft horses, look up Healing Harvest Forest Foundation. This foundation aims to promote sustainable logging.

Guidelines/criteria

Alyssa went over the garden guidelines. The group had no complaints. She also passed around a tentative membership application to allow for suggestions from the group. Finally, membership criteria will be posted on this blog. Please take the time to read over what Alyssa posts and provide comments.

Hello Folks!

Sorry I have not gotten the minutes from March's meeting up yet. Just a warning, short notice I know: there will be a workday April 1st (tomorrow). Possibly plowing? Anyone who has talked to John Hayes can maybe post more info about this. Also, mark your calenders for next Saturday, as there will be a work day then as well... I will post the information from the meeting as soon as I get a chance, check back April 1 or 2.

peas
~katie

one specific thing that needs to be brought up at the meeting is the tax bracket that the community garden participants will be in. Reason: We are receiving donations from Earth Fare as well as other companies, institutions, etc. in the near future. To begin with Earth Fare will not donate to us if we do not have our 501c3 and in order to obtain this and the community garden to be an initiative of ACPS we have to help "a non-privileged class" as opposed to allowing just anyone to participate. This is similar to the way Hunger Coalition chooses their clients as well as any other 501c3 non-profit. I hate to bring this up on such short notice but I had to confirm it with the IRS and this IS the case. Matt Cooper can explain the way this is handled at the HC as well as I can explain what the IRS has told me. This is necessary for future grants, funding (fundraisers might not sustain us, we will have to pay taxes on the money raised which is quite a bit), donations, and on a neo-pragmatic note it will help ACPS in acquiring future grants as well as it is an initiative of ACPS. We are presently struggling with showing granters tangible proof of what we are doing. Anyway I will explain further at the meeting, oh yea forgot to mention, we can have a section for the schools use...501c3 collaboration is not prohibited (i.e. University is 501c3)
Thanx and I hope all is well for everyone,