TO DO FOLLOWING FIRST SPRING W0RK PARTIES
- Work on town adopting model flood regulations
- Finish seeding garden
- Seed paths with conservation mix
- Seed tree nursery strip
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TO DO BEFORE SPRING 2023
- Send out invitation to the whole group to join a team (Kye) DONE!
- Calculate cover crop seeds (Ruth, Cat) DONE!
Green Cover mixes (cool season & warm season)
Field peas
Buckwheat
Clover
We already have a lot of oats
- Schedule another meeting after RH February meeting DONE!
- Install gutter and downspout DONE!
- Install water tank
TO DO BEFORE WINTER
- Work party in early November (fencing etc)
- Drain water tank
- Schedule a whole group meeting
TO DO BEFORE SEPTEMBER 16 Work Party:
- Outline the expanded guilds or "islands" so we know where to dig
- Gather plantain seeds to scatter in the grassy areas (lots are ripening now)
- Get more field peas
- Talk about/decide on fencing?
- What else? WORK ON GRANTS!
Here are the thoughts and ideas from the email thread on 7/19-21.
Please let us all know if you have additional ideas or thoughts.
TO DO BETWEEN NOW & LATISH AUGUST:
- Send out a doodle poll for August work party
- Gather plantain seeds when they ripen. Other seeds to gather now?
- Find out about putting buckets under the barn dripline
- Mow the mulch plot ever so often, leaving the clippings of course
- Cut more of the fleabane and add to the pile
- Collect soil samples for testing from the garden plot
TO BUY BEFORE AUGUST WORK PARTY: We can order seed from Fedco or Johnny's if we can't get the quantity we need locally. Or we can probably order whatever quantity in advance through West Leb Supply.
- buckwheat, oats and peas - amount TBD (15-20 lbs? Maybe more if we seed the guilds)
- clover (maybe alfalfa too)
- gas for tiller
TO DO AT WORK PARTY IN LATISH AUGUST:
- Plant pear tree
- Till garden, spread some Pro-Gro and thickly sow oats, peas, and buckwheat (we might need to wait for what we tilled in to break down a bit before seeding) We can borrow Duncan's tiller.
- Cultivate/till? around fruit trees, add ProGro and sow oats, peas, and buckwheat for winter cover and soil improvement for guilds
- Anything else?
TO DO WHEN WE HAVE A RAINY SPELL IN FALL
- spread Pro-Gro and then interseed clover, conservation mix, and maybe alfalfa on the mulch plot
- do we want to sow more conservation mix in the field, too?
TO DO BEFORE WINTER
- fencing
OTHER THINGS
- Cat says: It's on my list to talk to Scott about a Raise the Blade Campaign, at least at Clifford Park if not all parks. My organic lawn care friends all say 4" but here is a campaign promoting 3" which is better than the 1 - 2" the P&R currently does. The campaign also suggests leaving clippings rather than carting them away. Here are two short videos produced by the Lake Champlain Basin Program: https://lawntolake.org/resources-2/videos/
- Is it time to think about applying for fall grants?
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