Download Plan out Planting, Mulching, Compost - Independent Study | ENST 400 and more Study Guides, Projects, Research Environmental Science in PDF only on Docsity! Preface Welcome to the exciting world of the Rice Community Garden! You’re probably reading this because you have some responsibility for overseeing the garden. As you may or may not have realized, taking care of a community garden can be a challenging task, but it is also extremely rewarding. I hope you’ll use this “manual” (more like a mish-mash of tips, information, and artifacts) to help you plan for the garden. You’ll find that the better you plan and manage the garden, the less you’ll have to do to correct mistakes, the more you and others will enjoy gardening, and the more productive the garden! Of course, there’s always room for spontaneity or revision; this manual is simply a guide. Good luck! About this manual (1) First and most important section (yellow tab): Here you’ll find a handy list of tips for the most basic garden functions. There are then excerpts from a report I wrote in May 2006: “Improvement of the Rice Community Garden.” Those will give some of my findings from my semester of independent study on the garden, and recommendations for future garden coordinators. I’ve also included some appendix pages that I think will be particularly useful to you. Then there are some printouts of my e-mail correspondences with community gardeners from other colleges and former coordinators of the Rice Community Garden. Finally, there are some articles about the garden from the Rice News and Rice Thresher. (2) Second section (red tab): Information on some of the physical aspects of the garden (worm composting, soil testing, pruning). (3) Third section (white tab): Some “historical documents,” i.e. plans and plantings from the past. There is a lot here, so only a few pages are in sheet protectors and the rest are in the folder at the end of the section. (4) Fourth section (green tab): Lots and lots of old e-mails. Even more can be found in the Rice Community Garden file at the Woodson Research Library (1st floor of Fondren Library). A good rainy day activity, maybe. I’m being serious—there is a lot of juice in these e-mails! More info This document, along with all of my typed documents from my independent study project in Spring 2006 (Enst 400), are available on the garden website: http://www.rice.edu/garden. Please take a look at my full report when you have a chance. I’ve condensed some of the important information onto the next page, but the report will tell you a lot more!
