[Community_garden] More Open House info

Tue Aug 7 13:14:39 EDT 2007

HI Sarah,

We are also planning our first open house at our fledgling project on a 
vacant lot here in Albuquerque. Our plan for volunteer recognition 
involves soliciting local establishments (mostly restaurants and cafes) 
to give away some gift certificates with  theme of "keeping it local" - 
locally grown food, local businesses, local folk.  Other than that, its 
mostly about mentioning people by name at the event and that goes a 
long way.

We are keeping this event simple - just a pot luck to turn out more 
local folks to see what we are doing and how they can get involved. We 
thought about live music, but decided not to because of the permitting 
hassles it creates (and not enough lead time). We plan to do that for 
the harvest event, though. We hold a number of other larger events in 
the fall as well (not related to the garden, but with the same 
community) where we have a parade, music, jumpers, food, arts and 
crafts and itinerant artists (poets, circus arts, etc.). What you have 
planned sounds great and I wouldn't add anything. You might use it to 
advertise other educational events you may be having in the near 
future, though. In my experience, mostly people just want to get 
together to socialize at events like this and so long as you provide 
some essential like food (very important), they will stay, socialize, 
and learn about the project.

Good luck - I love the UP!

Wade
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Wade Patterson
Director of Arts and Community Development
Harwood Art Center
1114 Seventh Street NW
Albuquerque, NM  87102
505-242-6367
http://www.harwoodartcenter.org

On Aug 7, 2007, at 10:01 AM,  
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> From: "billorchard at juno.com" <billorchard at juno.com>
> Date: August 6, 2007 11:12:23 AM MDT
> To: community_garden at list.communitygarden.org
> Subject: [Community_garden] Community Garden Open Hosue
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>
> Sarah,
> Our club, the Arvada Gardeners, have an open house every year in  
> Arvada, Colorado.  Check our website arvadagardeners.org and click on  
> Events, on Open House Extra Info.  Also check out the photos of past  
> events.
> We don't have a specific recognition for volunteers but he have put a  
> gold shovel (handle cut off short, hammered into ground upsidedown,  
> recognition written on shovel head) in a special person's plot.
> Good luck with your event.
> Bill Orchard
> billorchard at juno.com
> Arvada Gardeners
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> Hello,
>
> We are planning an "Open House" celebration and ribbon-cutting  
> ceremony for our
> small, new community garden in the northwest corner of Michigan's  
> Upper Peninsula.  We are
> looking for suggestions for this making this celebration fun and  
> successful.  Our plans
> include the ceremonial ribbon cutting, serving ice cream, kids' games,  
> volunteer and donor
> recognition, and a garden tour.
>
> We would like to give our volunteers a special gift, but we don't have  
> any extra money for
> t-shirts or other items besides a simple thank you.
>
> Do you have special or unique ideas for celebrations such as this and  
> for volunteer
> recognition?
>
> Thank you,
>
> Sarah Cheney
> Pewabic Street Community Garden
> Houghton, Michigan
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> From: Zach Feris <zferis at yahoo.com>
> Date: August 6, 2007 11:34:16 AM MDT
> To: community_garden at list.communitygarden.org
> Subject: Re: [Community_garden] Open House Advice Needed
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> Hi Sarah,
>   Heard about this idea from a member of our garden in Jersey City.  
> Print sticky labels with the garden's address and contact info. Stick  
> these labels to back of veggie seed packets and distribute freely.  
> Fun, cheap and informative.
>
>   Good luck with your opening day!
>
>   Zach Feris
>   Brunswick Community Garden
>   Jersey City, NJ
>   http://www.geocities.com/jccommunitygarden/
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> Date: Mon, 6 Aug 2007 09:05:10 -0400
> From: "Sarah A. Cheney" <sacheney at chartermi.net>
> Subject: [Community_garden] Open House Advice Needed
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> Hello,
>
> We are planning an "Open House" celebration and ribbon-cutting ceremony
>  for our small, new community garden in the northwest corner of
>  Michigan's Upper Peninsula.  We are looking for suggestions for this  
> making
>  this celebration fun and successful.  Our plans include the ceremonial
>  ribbon cutting, serving ice cream, kids' games, volunteer and donor
>  recognition, and a garden tour.
>
> We would like to give our volunteers a special gift, but we don't have
>  any extra money for t-shirts or other items besides a simple thank  
> you.
>
> Do you have special or unique ideas for celebrations such as this and
>  for volunteer recognition?
>
> Thank you,
>
> Sarah Cheney
> Pewabic Street Community Garden
> Houghton, Michigan
>
>
>
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