Welcome to Marysville Community Garden

Marysville is currently accepting applications for the 2014 Gardening season. Click here to apply now!

Hello everyone,


My name is Madeleine Berrevoets. I have been the garden coordinator at St. Mary's Community Garden for the past 2 years. St. Mary's has some wonderful volunteers who are taking over there and I am coming to volunteer with Marysville.

I have a lot to learn about this garden. Please tell me the good, bad and ugly! I know there are issues with water supply, maintenance and community plots. I want to work with you all to make this a successful, sustainable, community garden.

I know there are lots of wonderful volunteers who helped last year with membership and maintenance among many other things. I hope that most of you will be interested in coming back to volunteer this year and that we will be able to get some new volunteers come on.

There are lots of different volunteer positions available. Below is a list of all volunteer positions, if you have any other ideas please let me know! I am looking for someone who would like to step up and work with me as a garden coordinator. If you would be interested in this please let me know.

Our gardening workshops are starting up next week. They are being held at St. Mary's Anglican Church, 780 McEvoy st. Thursday evenings from 7-8:30pm. Our first one is "A Beginners Guide to Buying Seeds"
Click the workshop tab above for the complete list.

I look forward to meeting you all,


Madeleine
madeleineberrevoets@gmail.com
506-292-7646

Activity	Description	Dates	Time Commitment	Need
Membership Committee	Manage membership. Assign plots. Manage garden mentor program.	Year round	Monthly meetings TBA.	Need!
Events Committee	Develop and coordinate community events. Run events.	Year round	Monthly meeting TBA + set up/ clean up during events once or twice a month	Need!
Maintenance Crew	Plan and lead work days. Maintain general areas. Ensure tools are properly cared for.	May-October	A few days a month, 1-4 hours a time	We are currently in need of more members to participate with out maintenance crew.
Garden Historian	This person will document the activities of the garden through photographs and any newspaper articles about the garden and keep them in a scrap book. This person must be someone who regularly attends events.	Anytime	2+ hours a month	We need someone to fill this position.
Surplus Produce Distributors	Collect donated produce from the Garden on a regular basis and deliver to area food banks. Pickups occur Monday-Wednesday-Friday, and Saturday. Must be committed to picking up produce and making deliveries on assigned days.	June - October	a couple hours a week	We need people to fill this position. Looking for 2-6 people
Plant Donation Crew	Contact local businesses for donations. Collect plants and seeds and supervise their distribution and care.	April - August	1+ hour/s a month	We need people to fill this position. Looking for 2-6 people.
Garden Mentor	Pair up with beginner gardeners to offer advice and help them get into gardening.	May- October	2+ hours a month	We need garden mentors!
Garden clean up	Pull some weeds, clean up the garbage, tidy up common areas anytime you're up visiting the garden. Remember to only work on common areas (walkways and community paths)	May- October	At your leisure	No commitment required!