UC Community Gardens Stakeholders and their roles
The following parties have an interest in the UC Community Gardens
The following parties have an interest in the UC Community Gardens
STAKEHOLDER | ROLE AND INTEREST |
UC Sustainability Office | Promotes gardens, provides administrative and managerial support, employs UC Community Gardens Coordinator, runs events, raises and manages funds. |
UC Community Gardens Coordinator | Manages planting and maintenance schedule, maintains soil and plant health, coordinates working bees, runs workshops, educates gardeners. |
Compost Club | Student gardening club with an interest in composting and growing foods 鈥 promotes community gardens to students, runs events and workshops, liaises with other clubs and UCSA. |
UCSA | Refers students to gardens through Welfare Coordinator. |
UC students | Volunteer gardeners and undertakes specific roles in the gardens if interested. |
Local community residents | Volunteer gardeners and undertakes specific roles in the gardens if interested. |
Code of Conduct
UC Community Gardens is a place where gardeners and volunteers are strongly encouraged to respect each other鈥檚 self-respect and dignity. Our community gardens are safe spaces where anyone can relax and be able to fully express, without fear of being made to feel uncomfortable, unwelcome, or unsafe on account of biological sex, race/ethnicity, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, cultural background, religious affiliation, age, or physical or mental ability. A safe space is a place where people encourage each other to:
Each member will take responsibility to manage his or her own behaviour so that everyone enjoys the garden. This includes
Induction
New volunteers will be introduced to the gardens with some simple information about
The purpose of this is to provide clarity about how the gardens work and help new gardeners feel more comfortable in a new situation.
UC Community Gardens Guidelines
Copies are held in the shed, new volunteer gardeners invited to read them during afternoon tea time.
Gardeners must be made aware of the Health and Safety Plan and will always undertake to be aware of their own safety and that of others.
Children
Special needs gardeners
The UC Community Gardens Coordinator is not resourced to provide additional supervision for special needs gardeners. Gardeners who need extra support to work in the gardens are required to be accompanied by a designated caregiver who is familiar with his or her needs. The caregiver should be familiar with the Gardening Guidelines and the Health and Safety Register.
Companion animals
No animals will be allowed in the garden other than registered companion animals.
Garden sheds or buildings
UC Community Garden sheds or other buildings will be tidied/spring cleaned once a year, usually during winter.
Pia Oven
Any groups using the pia oven must have on hand at all times a bucket of water which can be used to extinguish any fires. The pia oven and the shed must be left tidy after use.
Found materials
Any materials brought onto the grounds needs to be made safe beforehand (e.g. nails and sharp objects removed).
Volunteer work = harvest!
A minimum standard for how much work a gardener could do before they harvest produce from the UC Community Gardens is one hour a week. This is a general guideline - the rule of thumb is 鈥渢ake what you give鈥. If gardeners work a lot, they can take more than people who don鈥檛 work a lot. In general gardeners will be trusted to take the amount of produce that reflects how much work they do.
Harvesting during working bees
Harvested produce will be measured and recorded every week for research purposes.
Produce to be harvested will be listed every working bee.
Harvesting will be completed by 3pm during working bees 鈥 all of it gathered into a central point and shared across gardeners who have usually done a minimum of one hour of work. It can be useful to find out if different gardeners have a particular preference for different kinds of produce.
The volumes of produce harvested can change on a seasonal basis:
Volunteering and harvesting outside working bee hours
Emergency contact details for volunteers working outside standard working bee hours must be listed at each garden, including a statement that a first aid kit can be sourced from Security if necessary.
Tasks will be listed every week on a blackboard so that gardeners working outside working bee hours know what to do.
A list of food that can also be harvested will also be noted on the blackboard.
Both gardens have a notebook which is used to record gardener work/activity outside working bee hours. This includes all activities including:
Keeping this notebook up to date will help to prevent work being unnecessarily replicated.
Many people would like to work in the gardens but cannot attend the standard working bee times. The advantages of encouraging work in the gardens outside working bees include;
However providing open access to the gardens to people who are not aware of the general processes and seasonal requirements of the gardens raises the following issues;
Gardeners new to the gardens and wishing to work outside working bee hours need to be introduced to the gardens and other gardeners so that gardeners get to know and trust each other, and that new gardeners understand what needs to be done, why, and how. Ways to achieve this could include:
Volunteer roles
Gardeners are welcome to volunteer for particular roles that may interest them. This could include:
Spending money and reimbursement
Purchases for the community gardens will in general be discussed at community garden meetings prior to the purchases made.
Purchases made without prior discussion or consultation with the Community Gardener or Sustainability Office staff may or may not be reimbursed, depending on the nature of the purchase and funds available to reimburse.
Sustainability Office staff will undertake to keep gardeners regularly informed of funds available.
Found materials
Found/recycled/repurposed materials are important for the gardens. However the introduction of found materials needs to be managed in order to avoid unnecessary clutter or accumulation of unsafe materials.
Pia Oven
Users are encouraged to donate a koha to help with the costs of running and maintaining the oven.
Wood to run the oven comes from a variety of sources including
Volunteer gardeners are encouraged to enquire about use of the pia oven for private functions.
Any groups using the pia oven must have on hand at all times a bucket of water which can be used to extinguish any fires.
If the wood is required to be split, a designated user must have prior experience at splitting wood with an axe.
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