Brainstorming Ideas
Brainstorming #1 – How to Have More Participation in the Garden from ALL Gardeners:
- Have more flexible scheduling work nights (ex: 5-7 on a Wed?)
- To be very clear w/expectations for participants' requirements
- Allow “honor system” –people who can’t join workdays complete their assigned tasks independently
- Share bounty – make donations of produce etc. foodbank
- Use it or lose it
- Barter food/work
- Reminders – sing up ahead
- Childcare
- New website
- Posted work list
- Report sheet
- Potluck @ garden
- Guest volunteers/sponsorship
- Snacks during workday
- Fee deposits $1000 maybe just $50
- Check schedules before picking workdays
- Rotating leadership of workdays
- 3 hours/week-work committee
- More kid stuff sand etc.
- More fun less management
- Talk to teachers to include kids in garden
- Is garden lit for morning-evening hours?
- Think about many communities – for example, Somali
- Label tools multilingually with description of appropriate tools
- Schedule consistent gatherings/activities to bring gardeners together
- Make more child-safe (remove corners)
- Make more child-friendly
- Bring chickens
- Mini garden directory
- Language classes
- Point person to translate
- Volunteer (high schooler?)
- Free plot for translate
- Transform more lots into plots
- Involve bilingual people
- Kiddie garden plot
- Bilingual people – coordinate availability during workdays
- Advertise in Chelsea Record in all languages
- Kiddie books in languages
- Multiligual sign for garden
- Community board – inside + outside
- Community beds for donating
- Email ideas ask for feedback/lease it to the coordinators
- Possibly encourage cooking + sharing garden parties
- Potluck sharing culture/food languages etc….
