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Cake day: June 28th, 2023

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  • Thanks for your comment. My gut tells me it was probably not a member of the garden. We are a small community and have been together for years, and know each other well. There is a preschool, and a volunteer organization that both have access to our garden, and it could have occurred during their watch that the hose was taken, or it’s possible to simply hop the fence. which people have done to smoke weed, or steal produce.

    But we should have definitely wrote “property of X community garden” all over that hose. I will suggest this to the group.




  • Thanks for your comment!

    We have had situations where non-garden members walked in, and thought that they could freely take tomato cages, or garden tools because they lived in the nearby community. They failed to understand what “community garden” meant to us, as enrolled garden members.

    We also have the more common problem that people feel entitled to pick all our fruits, and produce. Many are unaware that we have rules and guidelines, they are unaware that we sign a contract, pay dues, and have expectations of volunteering prior to harvesting.

    There are coded locks on the gate, and shed. There is a sign about how to join the community, but I don’t think everyone notices it.