first visit with Shari and the garden

Saturday 2/7
I met Shari Hazlett, one of the head organizationl leaders of Bartlett Community Garden.
After our rondezvous at the Saturday Morning Market (where the Garden has a booth selling native plants to raise money) we took a quick tour of the MLK & 14th Ave S. location. I saw that the Garden need more physical labor than had already been put in by hard working volunteers. Shari told me that the once trashed lot has come a long way since its revival a little less than a year ago. The Garden relies completely on volunteer services and because of this reliance, I decided that making a volunteer handbook for the non-profit organization would be very beneficial. I also met Joe, who is a specialist on drip irrigation and whom I'll later be interviewing on the functions of garden work.