Meeting date: Wednesday, December 27, 2017
Community Garden update
• Community garden: Francis is "retiring" and will keep 2 acres for fruit trees, herbs, bees, raspberries, strawberry, goji
• Remaining 2 acres could be managed by cooperative - the soil has to be built up with cover crops and manure
• Francis will leave his tractor and it will be available to co-op to plow and disc, especially the weed crops in may
• The garden needs somebody everyday for watering, cow protection
• Needs electric fence
• community can plant roots, no melons, maybe grains
• Bala's portion of the community garden will not be planted. He will turn over may 1, plant cover crop. middle june plant buckwheat, turn under, peas/legumes, then fall rye - this will get rid of sunchokes
Co-op investments
• Wheelhoe $234 for from william dam
• Sprayer, ideally an atomizer, but this is AC powered. Perhaps battery powered sprayer
• neem and soap for sprayer
• Sign up for woofer program to get workers - http://wwoof.net - kripa will be contact person and filter potential workers
Valley fence update
• fence work starts early march
• govardhan hill fence need improvements from lake to top of hill
• need to add gates and dummy posts to existing fences
• fence posts making and outside sales opportunities
• electric fence in north end (payed by ducks unlimited?) - needs monitoring
• SVHI can pay for post pounder
Co-op business
- Seed order first week of february
- Farm and financial reports
- New Director Réal Lionel Gagnon
- JaiSaci retiring as Director
- Same President, Secretary and Treasurer as before
Present: Bala, Yoginath, Kripanidhi, Francis, Ramanath, JaiSac