INFORMATION FOR PLOT HOLDERS

The garden is filled with communal spaces that need love and tending. Gardening an individual plot is a privilege, and it requires extra responsibilities. Please give careful consideration to your time and availability before committing to a plot.

1. In becoming a plot-holder, you’re agreeing to be responsible for:
   • Working at least 5 out of 8 Garden Days. (2008 Garden Days: Sunday April 6; Sunday May 4; Sunday June 1; Sunday July 6; Sunday August 3; Sunday September 7; Sunday October 5; Saturday November 2. Garden Days start at 10:00 with a meeting. Gardening and Garden Orientation Tours starts at 11:00. When you come, plan to help garden.)
   • Maintaining your plot in good health, including treating or removing diseased plants, weeding, harvesting ripe produce.
   • Weeding the walkways in front of your plot.
   • Only using organic methods. This means that you agree not to use chemical poisons, bricks, treated wood, or other materials that can add poisonous chemicals to the soil.
   • Contacting the Garden Coordinator (Chris Niles) if you know you can’t fulfill your minimum Garden Day commitments, and arriving at a mutually agreeable solution for making up the work.
2. A few things apply to all garden members that concern plots:
   • No member is allowed to work another’s plot without prior approval of that member.
   • No member is allowed to harvest crops from another’s plot without the prior approval of that member.
3. The Garden By-Laws specify some additional rules about plots that you should be aware of:
   • If four Garden Days are missed without prior discussion with a Gardening Coordinator, the plot holder will lose the plot and not be allowed to have a plot the following year.
   • Plots remaining untended by the Saturday before the June Garden Day will revert back to the garden community. (For the remainder of the year, plots will not be available to that plot-holder for personal growing. As well, the following year, s/he will not have the right of first refusal on that plot.)
   • If, after the Saturday before the June Garden Day, there are members on a waiting list for plots, untended plots will be reassigned to such members on a first come, first serve basis. If no members are waiting for plots, these plots will revert to the community.
   • After the Saturday before the June Garden Day, and throughout the gardening season, if plots appear to be untended or abandoned, a Gardening Coordinator will attempt to get in touch with that plot-holder to find out his/her status. If the plot-holder is unable to tend to his/her plot, it will revert to the community. It will no longer be available for the exclusive use of that gardener. Garden Days will serve as markers for this assessment.

ALL NEW MEMBERS MUST ATTEND A GARDEN ORIENTATION TOUR.