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Subject: Re: watering rota
From: "Emma Harvey" <info@...>
Date: Tue, April 22, 2008 3:17 am
To: jenwren@...
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Hi Jen

Sorry I missed you the other day, it would be good to catch up.

I would love to say we have loads of eager volunteers for your
gardening, but the truth is everyone is so stretched with building works
at the moment that I think they're reluctant to take on additional
tasks.

We do have one volunteer, Bill Simms, who is very interested in getting
involved with the garden, so I'll speak to him to see if he could spare
half an hour, maybe first thing when he comes in. He's here 4 days a
week, so it'd be better to have someone doing it as part of their
regular day. He is also a carpenter so I think you could really benefit
from his skills. Maybe when Tom's in next he could have a chat with him
about what you need and other ways he could get involved.

Shame I missed the Plough, hope to catch up in person soon,

Em

On Sat, 2008-04-19 at 04:23 -0700, jenwren@... wrote:
> Hi There Emma , hows tricks? long time no see, hope all is well, i knocked
> on your office door yesterday but must have just missed u.
>
> Yesterday Eastisde roots had a mini meeting in the garden to discuss
> various 'Trinity garden' things, one of which was 'watering'. Seems daft
> with all this rain to be worring about such a thing but its that time of
> year when we are all optimistic for a long hot summer!
>
> Anyway, i remember last year that people from the trinity helped out once
> or twice to water the plants both in poly Tunnel and in garden, when the
> volunteers were not able to. It was suggested then that it might be good
> for the trinity staff and volunteers to be responsible for one or two
> days a week to water when its particularly warm weather and it needs
> doing daily. How do you think people in trinity would feel about this
> now? It would only take half an hour or so and it could be rotated
> around people, so long as there is one person for overseeing it maybe. It
> might be a good idea for the some of trinity staff to shadow one of the
> garden volunteers doing it once because effective watering is a bit of an
> art!
>
> We thought it would be a great way to make more connections between the
> builing folk and the garden folk too, ownership, etc!
>
> Look forward to hearing your thoughts on this, see u at 'dance for the
> plants' in the plough later?, hopefully u see this b4 mon!
>
> Jen x
>
>



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Eastside Roots Community Garden Centre
Trinity Community Arts,
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Trinity Rd.,
Bristol,
BS2 0NW

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