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Lawton Park Community Garden
Member Requirement
Work hours are required to keep your plot. If you do not meet the requirement, you will be asked to give up your bed to the next person on the waiting list.
Requirements
- Choose a committee to work on and let the Volunteer Coordinator know. We will need a chair for each committee
- Post a minimum of six hours per season of communal/committee work on the Google Jobs Sheet
- Help at general clean up days and plant sale (there will be lots to do)
- Maintain your own bed - (planting in by early May, keeping your bed planted, weeding around the outside of your bed, get bed ready for winter with some type of mulch or cover crop)
Committees
- Compost (maintain composters or order a delivery of compost, take garbage/yard waste to street)
- General maintenance (shed clean outs and repair hoses, chicken wire fencing, host clean up days)
- Border plantings (plant natives, tulips, dahlias, annuals, put up temporary fencing, organize watering schedule)
- Social (organize social events, Plant Sale, attend Brookline Day or other publicity events)
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