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Gardening club - activity ideas needed!!!
Jane Ransom1/2/04 5:06
We are in the process of bringing our local 'Horticultural Society' into the twenty first century and are looking for ideas for activities that might attract the younger inhabitants of our village. Without being rude, please, does anyone have any brilliant brain waves that might help us out? How to make a worter feecha. Hanging baskets, propagation of plants. How to make a garden private, user friendly and low maintenance (and then please, come back and tell us all about it!) but you get my drift. ;-) Grow (some) of your own food - gardens/seedbeds for children of the younger inhabitants. I would guess/suggest that a lot of people don't 'take' to gardening until their middle age, so don't despair! -- Sacha (remove the weeds to email me) |
Gardening club - activity ideas needed!!!
In article , Sacha
writes Without being rude, please, does anyone have any brilliant brain waves that might help us out? How to make a worter feecha. Hanging baskets, propagation of plants. How to make a garden private, user friendly and low maintenance (and then please, come back and tell us all about it!) but you get my drift. ;-) Grow (some) of your own food - gardens/seedbeds for children of the younger inhabitants. Thanks, Sacha, but we have regular 'speakers' and the topics you mention crop up regularly! Plus we have two outings a year. We were thinking along the lines of an interactive quiz or games or something - if anyone has any ideas. I would guess/suggest that a lot of people don't 'take' to gardening until their middle age, so don't despair! I think the average age of our group is about 80 . . . . and most of the female gender :(((((((((((( -- Jane Ransom in Lancaster. I won't respond to private emails that are on topic for urg but if you need to email me for any other reason, put ransoms at jandg dot demon dot co dot uk where you see |
Gardening club - activity ideas needed!!!
"Jane wrote in message ... We are in the process of bringing our local 'Horticultural Society' into the twenty first century and are looking for ideas for activities that might attract the younger inhabitants of our village. Without being rude, please, does anyone have any brilliant brain waves that might help us out? Said it before but how about a Marrow or better still Pumpkin growing competition, give out the seeds yourself so they all start with the same, and make a date in, say, September for the grand weigh in (local Pub might well like to get involved in that!) Your local school might like to get involved too. Make prizes for different age groups. Do make sure you have good scales though which you probably will have to hire, you may get some pumpkins of 400lbs or more. A "How to grow" sheet would also be a good idea for those who have no idea, and once they are hooked you have them for the rest of their lives. :-) -- Regards Bob Use a useful Screen Saver... http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/ and find intelligent life amongst the stars 368 data units completed. |
Gardening club - activity ideas needed!!!
On Sun, 1 Feb 2004 20:04:26 +0000, Jane Ransom
wrote: I would guess/suggest that a lot of people don't 'take' to gardening until their middle age, so don't despair! I think the average age of our group is about 80 . . . . and most of the female gender :(((((((((((( How about a weekend in Amsterdam? It seems full of unattached men for some reason. -- Martin |
Gardening club - activity ideas needed!!!
On Sun, 1 Feb 2004 20:53:58 -0000, "Bob Hobden"
wrote: "Jane wrote in message ... We are in the process of bringing our local 'Horticultural Society' into the twenty first century and are looking for ideas for activities that might attract the younger inhabitants of our village. Without being rude, please, does anyone have any brilliant brain waves that might help us out? Said it before but how about a Marrow or better still Pumpkin growing competition, give out the seeds yourself so they all start with the same, and make a date in, say, September for the grand weigh in (local Pub might well like to get involved in that!) Followed by a traditional pumpkin seed spitting contest. -- Martin |
Gardening club - activity ideas needed!!!
"Jane Ransom" wrote in message ... We are in the process of bringing our local 'Horticultural Society' into the twenty first century and are looking for ideas for activities that might attract the younger inhabitants of our village. You say the 'younger' inhabitants? How young? I was in our Garden Centre today and noticed a stand of 'Children's Garden Tools', why not start or emphasise more the 'Younger' ones and even start a section for them and invite Mum or Dad to join in as well? If the majority only have a small garden do planned evenings/weekends on 'The Handkerchief Garden' and hold a competition. Add Social Evenings into your calendar with 'Bangers and Mash' Evenings, these evenings can be fund raising events for your Society so ask them to bring a prize for a Raffle. Not Horticultural or Gardening themed, but we hold these fund raising evenings and think nothing of making £200.00 or more and have a good evening. "Take over" (with permission of the Council or whoever own them) any small public gardens or flower beds and get people who don't normally have an interest in gardening, to 'help' you to make a display of these beds. (Not my idea, I got roped into doing the beds around the War Memorial and the 'Horse Trough' Flower bed) Hold a Village in Bloom contest. The people who are going to take part register now and the Judging is ........... you decide now so they have something to go for. A Cup and a Certificate to keep AND, you will find your local garden centre/nurseries will donate tokens as prizes, tie all of this up with your local council, they 'might' pay for advertising and/or leaflets to be printed/ distributed. If you want to get the whole village involved there has to be something which will appeal to ALL, like a "100 Club" with £500.00 worth of prizes over the year 'run by the Horticultural Society'. (Just about to launch the same thing here as a start to a £500,000.00 Fund Raising scheme for the local 'Open Space/Sports Field'. BTW you have to be registered with your local council and this will cost you £35.00 and you need the leaflet about the Lotteries and Amusements Act 1976) More ideas? Have a 'Brain Storming' session where every idea is thrown into the pot, no matter how daft. 'Something' could be made of even the most stupid idea. Mike |
Gardening club - activity ideas needed!!!
"Jane Ransom" wrote in message ... We are in the process of bringing our local 'Horticultural Society' into the twenty first century and are looking for ideas for activities that might attract the younger inhabitants of our village. You say the 'younger' inhabitants? How young? I was in our Garden Centre today and noticed a stand of 'Children's Garden Tools', why not start or emphasise more the 'Younger' ones and even start a section for them and invite Mum or Dad to join in as well? If the majority only have a small garden do planned evenings/weekends on 'The Handkerchief Garden' and hold a competition. Add Social Evenings into your calendar with 'Bangers and Mash' Evenings, these evenings can be fund raising events for your Society so ask them to bring a prize for a Raffle. Not Horticultural or Gardening themed, but we hold these fund raising evenings and think nothing of making £200.00 or more and have a good evening. "Take over" (with permission of the Council or whoever own them) any small public gardens or flower beds and get people who don't normally have an interest in gardening, to 'help' you to make a display of these beds. (Not my idea, I got roped into doing the beds around the War Memorial and the 'Horse Trough' Flower bed) Hold a Village in Bloom contest. The people who are going to take part register now and the Judging is ........... you decide now so they have something to go for. A Cup and a Certificate to keep AND, you will find your local garden centre/nurseries will donate tokens as prizes, tie all of this up with your local council, they 'might' pay for advertising and/or leaflets to be printed/ distributed. If you want to get the whole village involved there has to be something which will appeal to ALL, like a "100 Club" with £500.00 worth of prizes over the year 'run by the Horticultural Society'. (Just about to launch the same thing here as a start to a £500,000.00 Fund Raising scheme for the local 'Open Space/Sports Field'. BTW you have to be registered with your local council and this will cost you £35.00 and you need the leaflet about the Lotteries and Amusements Act 1976) More ideas? Have a 'Brain Storming' session where every idea is thrown into the pot, no matter how daft. 'Something' could be made of even the most stupid idea. Mike |
Gardening club - activity ideas needed!!!
In article , Sacha
writes Jane Ransom1/2/04 5:06 n.co.uk We are in the process of bringing our local 'Horticultural Society' into the twenty first century and are looking for ideas for activities that might attract the younger inhabitants of our village. Without being rude, please, does anyone have any brilliant brain waves that might help us out? How to make a worter feecha. Hanging baskets, propagation of plants. How to make a garden private, user friendly and low maintenance (and then please, come back and tell us all about it!) but you get my drift. ;-) Grow (some) of your own food - gardens/seedbeds for children of the younger inhabitants. I would guess/suggest that a lot of people don't 'take' to gardening until their middle age, so don't despair! Tap into the current fashions for everything 'new age' - so feng shui, herbal remedies from the garden. -- Kay Easton Edward's earthworm page: http://www.scarboro.demon.co.uk/edward/index.htm |
Gardening club - activity ideas needed!!!
In article , Sacha
writes Jane Ransom1/2/04 5:06 n.co.uk We are in the process of bringing our local 'Horticultural Society' into the twenty first century and are looking for ideas for activities that might attract the younger inhabitants of our village. Without being rude, please, does anyone have any brilliant brain waves that might help us out? How to make a worter feecha. Hanging baskets, propagation of plants. How to make a garden private, user friendly and low maintenance (and then please, come back and tell us all about it!) but you get my drift. ;-) Grow (some) of your own food - gardens/seedbeds for children of the younger inhabitants. I would guess/suggest that a lot of people don't 'take' to gardening until their middle age, so don't despair! Tap into the current fashions for everything 'new age' - so feng shui, herbal remedies from the garden. -- Kay Easton Edward's earthworm page: http://www.scarboro.demon.co.uk/edward/index.htm |
Gardening club - activity ideas needed!!!
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from Jane Ransom contains these words: In article , Sacha writes Without being rude, please, does anyone have any brilliant brain waves that might help us out? I would guess/suggest that a lot of people don't 'take' to gardening until their middle age, so don't despair! I was only 22 when I got hooked. I think the average age of our group is about 80 . . . . and most of the female gender :(((((((((((( Our Gardening Club started much the same way a year ago, against much head-shaking and teeth-sucking by the more fogeyish Horticultural Society members (who are now completely won over and enthusiastic attenders; in fact to hear some of them talk you'd think it was their very own idea in the first place). Membership immediately expanded beyond all expectations, (equal males and females) 40 or 50 turn up to a monthly meeting including a slowly growing number of younger people (30-ish). . It has also started a lending library of donated garden books, which might draw in more newbie gardeners as word gets around. Last week's meeting was a showing of an official 90 minute video somebody had bought at the Eden Project, covering Tim Smit's inspiration and the construction/preparation phase.. fascinating and very well received by all ages. We're having a second one about the planting of Eden, at a later meeting. The initial meeting included a raffle of garden-related spare stuff donated by founding members, anything from produce, to plants, seeds, pots etc. It was so popular we now do it every month; very easy fundraiser :-) HTH Janet |
Gardening club - activity ideas needed!!!
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from Jane Ransom contains these words: In article , Sacha writes Without being rude, please, does anyone have any brilliant brain waves that might help us out? I would guess/suggest that a lot of people don't 'take' to gardening until their middle age, so don't despair! I was only 22 when I got hooked. I think the average age of our group is about 80 . . . . and most of the female gender :(((((((((((( Our Gardening Club started much the same way a year ago, against much head-shaking and teeth-sucking by the more fogeyish Horticultural Society members (who are now completely won over and enthusiastic attenders; in fact to hear some of them talk you'd think it was their very own idea in the first place). Membership immediately expanded beyond all expectations, (equal males and females) 40 or 50 turn up to a monthly meeting including a slowly growing number of younger people (30-ish). . It has also started a lending library of donated garden books, which might draw in more newbie gardeners as word gets around. Last week's meeting was a showing of an official 90 minute video somebody had bought at the Eden Project, covering Tim Smit's inspiration and the construction/preparation phase.. fascinating and very well received by all ages. We're having a second one about the planting of Eden, at a later meeting. The initial meeting included a raffle of garden-related spare stuff donated by founding members, anything from produce, to plants, seeds, pots etc. It was so popular we now do it every month; very easy fundraiser :-) HTH Janet |
Gardening club - activity ideas needed!!!
Xref: kermit uk.rec.gardening:185689
Why not contact a seed company to see if you could get free or reduced price seed so you could give every child a free packet of seed. A sponsored Sunflower growing competition. and if you can supply every entrant with say 3 plants for an entry fee of 50p, so that they all have the same variety to start with.......... -- David Hill Abacus nurseries www.abacus-nurseries.co.uk |
Gardening club - activity ideas needed!!!
Xref: kermit uk.rec.gardening:185689
Why not contact a seed company to see if you could get free or reduced price seed so you could give every child a free packet of seed. A sponsored Sunflower growing competition. and if you can supply every entrant with say 3 plants for an entry fee of 50p, so that they all have the same variety to start with.......... -- David Hill Abacus nurseries www.abacus-nurseries.co.uk |
Gardening club - activity ideas needed!!!
"Jane Ransom" wrote in message ... We are in the process of bringing our local 'Horticultural Society' into the twenty first century and are looking for ideas for activities that might attract the younger inhabitants of our village. Without being rude, please, does anyone have any brilliant brain waves that might help us out? -- Jane Ransom in Lancaster. I won't respond to private emails that are on topic for urg but if you need to email me for any other reason, put ransoms at jandg dot demon dot co dot uk where you see You say the 'younger' inhabitants? How young? I was in our Garden Centre today and noticed a stand of 'Children's Garden Tools', why not start or emphasise more the 'Younger' ones and even start a section for them and invite Mum or Dad to join in as well? If the majority only have a small garden do planned evenings/weekends on 'The Handkerchief Garden' and hold a competition. Add Social Evenings into your calendar with 'Bangers and Mash' Evenings, these evenings can be fund raising events for your Society so ask them to bring a prize for a Raffle. Not Horticultural or Gardening themed, but we hold these fund raising evenings and think nothing of making £200.00 or more and have a good evening. "Take over" (with permission of the Council or whoever own them) any small public gardens or flower beds and get people who don't normally have an interest in gardening, to 'help' you to make a display of these beds. (Not my idea, I got roped into doing the beds around the War Memorial and the 'Horse Trough' Flower bed) Hold a Village in Bloom contest. The people who are going to take part register now and the Judging is ........... you decide now so they have something to go for. A Cup and a Certificate to keep AND, you will find your local garden centre/nurseries will donate tokens as prizes, tie all of this up with your local council, they 'might' pay for advertising and/or leaflets to be printed/ distributed. If you want to get the whole village involved there has to be something which will appeal to ALL, like a "100 Club" with £500.00 worth of prizes over the year 'run by the Horticultural Society'. (Just about to launch the same thing here as a start to a £500,000.00 Fund Raising scheme for the local 'Open Space/Sports Field'. BTW you have to be registered with your local council and this will cost you £35.00 and you need the leaflet about the Lotteries and Amusements Act 1976) More ideas? Have a 'Brain Storming' session where every idea is thrown into the pot, no matter how daft. 'Something' could be made of even the most stupid idea. Mike |
Gardening club - activity ideas needed!!!
"Jane Ransom" wrote in message ... We are in the process of bringing our local 'Horticultural Society' into the twenty first century and are looking for ideas for activities that might attract the younger inhabitants of our village. Without being rude, please, does anyone have any brilliant brain waves that might help us out? -- Jane Ransom in Lancaster. I won't respond to private emails that are on topic for urg but if you need to email me for any other reason, put ransoms at jandg dot demon dot co dot uk where you see You say the 'younger' inhabitants? How young? I was in our Garden Centre today and noticed a stand of 'Children's Garden Tools', why not start or emphasise more the 'Younger' ones and even start a section for them and invite Mum or Dad to join in as well? If the majority only have a small garden do planned evenings/weekends on 'The Handkerchief Garden' and hold a competition. Add Social Evenings into your calendar with 'Bangers and Mash' Evenings, these evenings can be fund raising events for your Society so ask them to bring a prize for a Raffle. Not Horticultural or Gardening themed, but we hold these fund raising evenings and think nothing of making £200.00 or more and have a good evening. "Take over" (with permission of the Council or whoever own them) any small public gardens or flower beds and get people who don't normally have an interest in gardening, to 'help' you to make a display of these beds. (Not my idea, I got roped into doing the beds around the War Memorial and the 'Horse Trough' Flower bed) Hold a Village in Bloom contest. The people who are going to take part register now and the Judging is ........... you decide now so they have something to go for. A Cup and a Certificate to keep AND, you will find your local garden centre/nurseries will donate tokens as prizes, tie all of this up with your local council, they 'might' pay for advertising and/or leaflets to be printed/ distributed. If you want to get the whole village involved there has to be something which will appeal to ALL, like a "100 Club" with £500.00 worth of prizes over the year 'run by the Horticultural Society'. (Just about to launch the same thing here as a start to a £500,000.00 Fund Raising scheme for the local 'Open Space/Sports Field'. BTW you have to be registered with your local council and this will cost you £35.00 and you need the leaflet about the Lotteries and Amusements Act 1976) More ideas? Have a 'Brain Storming' session where every idea is thrown into the pot, no matter how daft. 'Something' could be made of even the most stupid idea. Mike |
Gardening club - activity ideas needed!!!
On Sun, 1 Feb 2004 17:06:11 +0000, Jane Ransom wrote:
We are in the process of bringing our local 'Horticultural Society' into the twenty first century and are looking for ideas for activities that might attract the younger inhabitants of our village. Without being rude, please, does anyone have any brilliant brain waves that might help us out? We have much the same problem here with our local rock gardening club. Our membership is graying and slowly dwindling in number -- and it's hard to think what might reverse this trend. Certainly there's no quick fix. It might help to understand the social forces that lead to this kind of thing. I can think of a few: 1. There are many more leisure time activities these days than there used to be, and they compete with gardening for leisure hours. 2. People have ~fewer~ leisure hours than they used to, and work is much more stressful. Modern life is far more complex and demanding than life fifty years ago (say). By the time a working stiff gets home, he (or she) is so exhausted that the last thing he wants to do is go outside and dig around in the soil. (Even though it might relieve the stress and exhaustion.) 3. A well-established group can become too satisfied with itself or too tightly knit a social group and thus not very welcoming to new members. 4. Gardens are smaller these days so the tried-and-true ways of gardening don't work as well as they used to. I've thought that staging small one-day displays at local shopping malls *might* attract potential new members, but with something as specialized as rock gardening, perhaps one person in a thousand would turn out to be a keener. It's a nasty problem and I look forward with interest to other replies. (Incidentally, the Vancouver Island Rock and Alpine Garden Society is the oldest rock garden club in the world, predating the AGS by almost ten years! There's an older Swiss group that maintains a true alpine garden up on an alp somewhere, but they aren't the same kind of outfit and Don't Count.) -- Rodger Whitlock Victoria, British Columbia, Canada [change "atlantic" to "pacific" and "invalid" to "net" to reply by email] |
Gardening club - activity ideas needed!!!
3. A well-established group can become too satisfied with itself or too tightly knit a social group and thus not very welcoming to new members. This may very well be the problem and it takes a very serious look at yourself to see this and admit it. And it has to come from the top. How long have the people on the committee been in office? Do they regard it as 'Their Society'? How are ideas received by the committee? "Oh we tried that once and it didn't work" and then when you look back to when it was tried, it clashed with the Coronation in 1953!!!!!!!!!! Mike |
Gardening club - activity ideas needed!!!
lid (Rodger Whitlock) wrote in
: I've thought that staging small one-day displays at local shopping malls *might* attract potential new members, but with something as specialized as rock gardening, perhaps one person in a thousand would turn out to be a keener. That sounds like a good idea to me. Speaking as someone who keeps failing to get round to joining the local gardening group, I would be encouraged to do so if I came across it doing something at a place where I already had to be. Maybe also leafleting, or doing something in conjunction with a local school or in a B&Q or garden centre carpark at a weekend/bank holiday or something? I think I've seen them advertise midweek daytime meetings, which is impossible for me, (and also shrieks ' we are all retired!'). But one reason I haven't joined yet is that when I go to the one shop where they post their regular meetings notice, I never have a pen or any paper with me! If they had a website, I'd probably be a member by now. (Website: this need not be complicated or cost anything. A templated freeby gadget such as those provided by http://www.blogspot.com/ would be ample, and very easy to manage.) To address the gender balance, I suggest you also post details of events at the local pub ;-). HTH! Victoria |
Gardening club - activity ideas needed!!!
On Mon, 02 Feb 2004 10:29:39 +0000, Victoria Clare wrote:
To address the gender balance, I suggest you also post details of events at the local pub ;-). Gender balance is another BIG issue that I didn't mention in my earlier contributions to this thread. I believe it's unhealthy for a gardening group to become predominately one sex or the other unless it's deliberately intended to be a single-sex affair. When either men or women predominate, there's a tendency for the group to become more sociable in a way that lessens the focus on gardening. The women start doing female-competition thingies, the men start doing golf thingies or something of the sort. Neither is beneficial. Also, the two sexes tend to have different styles, very broadly speaking, and once the balance tips too far in one direction or the other, the other side finds the situation repellent and stays away. The situation becomes self-perpetuating and nearly impossible to correct. Yes, this may make me sound like some kind of horrible sexual chauvinist, but I think it's a serious issue that one's group ignores at their peril. -- Rodger Whitlock Victoria, British Columbia, Canada [change "atlantic" to "pacific" and "invalid" to "net" to reply by email] |
Gardening club - activity ideas needed!!!
On Mon, 02 Feb 2004 10:29:39 +0000, Victoria Clare wrote:
To address the gender balance, I suggest you also post details of events at the local pub ;-). Gender balance is another BIG issue that I didn't mention in my earlier contributions to this thread. I believe it's unhealthy for a gardening group to become predominately one sex or the other unless it's deliberately intended to be a single-sex affair. When either men or women predominate, there's a tendency for the group to become more sociable in a way that lessens the focus on gardening. The women start doing female-competition thingies, the men start doing golf thingies or something of the sort. Neither is beneficial. Also, the two sexes tend to have different styles, very broadly speaking, and once the balance tips too far in one direction or the other, the other side finds the situation repellent and stays away. The situation becomes self-perpetuating and nearly impossible to correct. Yes, this may make me sound like some kind of horrible sexual chauvinist, but I think it's a serious issue that one's group ignores at their peril. -- Rodger Whitlock Victoria, British Columbia, Canada [change "atlantic" to "pacific" and "invalid" to "net" to reply by email] |
Gardening club - activity ideas needed!!!
On Mon, 02 Feb 2004 10:29:39 +0000, Victoria Clare wrote:
To address the gender balance, I suggest you also post details of events at the local pub ;-). Gender balance is another BIG issue that I didn't mention in my earlier contributions to this thread. I believe it's unhealthy for a gardening group to become predominately one sex or the other unless it's deliberately intended to be a single-sex affair. When either men or women predominate, there's a tendency for the group to become more sociable in a way that lessens the focus on gardening. The women start doing female-competition thingies, the men start doing golf thingies or something of the sort. Neither is beneficial. Also, the two sexes tend to have different styles, very broadly speaking, and once the balance tips too far in one direction or the other, the other side finds the situation repellent and stays away. The situation becomes self-perpetuating and nearly impossible to correct. Yes, this may make me sound like some kind of horrible sexual chauvinist, but I think it's a serious issue that one's group ignores at their peril. -- Rodger Whitlock Victoria, British Columbia, Canada [change "atlantic" to "pacific" and "invalid" to "net" to reply by email] |
Gardening club - activity ideas needed!!!
On Mon, 2 Feb 2004 08:39:47 +0000 (UTC), Mike wrote:
3. A well-established group can become too satisfied with itself or too tightly knit a social group and thus not very welcoming to new members. This may very well be the problem and it takes a very serious look at yourself to see this and admit it. And it has to come from the top. How long have the people on the committee been in office? Do they regard it as 'Their Society'? Our local rock gardening group is fortunate in that its bylaws require committee members to step down after three years. As a result, nearly all members have been on the committee at some point. Moreover, because they've struggled in the kitchen themselves, they tend not to criticize the cooking of whoever's currently on the hook! A provision of this nature is recommended. Otherwise, one must resort to devious Machiavellian tactics to ease long-term incumbents off the committee, and such tactics are neither easy to devise nor easy to carry out. And can take a long time to bring to fruition. How are ideas received by the committee? "Oh we tried that once and it didn't work" and then when you look back to when it was tried, it clashed with the Coronation in 1953!!!!!!!!!! Ah, yes. Seen that too. -- Rodger Whitlock Victoria, British Columbia, Canada [change "atlantic" to "pacific" and "invalid" to "net" to reply by email] |
Gardening club - activity ideas needed!!!
On Mon, 2 Feb 2004 08:39:47 +0000 (UTC), Mike wrote:
3. A well-established group can become too satisfied with itself or too tightly knit a social group and thus not very welcoming to new members. This may very well be the problem and it takes a very serious look at yourself to see this and admit it. And it has to come from the top. How long have the people on the committee been in office? Do they regard it as 'Their Society'? Our local rock gardening group is fortunate in that its bylaws require committee members to step down after three years. As a result, nearly all members have been on the committee at some point. Moreover, because they've struggled in the kitchen themselves, they tend not to criticize the cooking of whoever's currently on the hook! A provision of this nature is recommended. Otherwise, one must resort to devious Machiavellian tactics to ease long-term incumbents off the committee, and such tactics are neither easy to devise nor easy to carry out. And can take a long time to bring to fruition. How are ideas received by the committee? "Oh we tried that once and it didn't work" and then when you look back to when it was tried, it clashed with the Coronation in 1953!!!!!!!!!! Ah, yes. Seen that too. -- Rodger Whitlock Victoria, British Columbia, Canada [change "atlantic" to "pacific" and "invalid" to "net" to reply by email] |
Gardening club - activity ideas needed!!!
A provision of this nature is recommended. Otherwise, one must resort to devious Machiavellian tactics to ease long-term incumbents off the committee, and such tactics are neither easy to devise nor easy to carry out. And can take a long time to bring to fruition. The Constitution of an Association has been in force since the IGM in 1998. Various events and highlights have come to the fore and I have put various propositions to change certain elements at the next AGM. I have pointed out in no uncertain terms that these propositions will only be put forward at the members request. All the members are aware of the problems and I have received overwhelming support for the changes. There are a few modifications, but in general the proposals will be for the members benefit and will see a change of Committee members on a routine basis. Now completely Off Topic of Gardening, but perhaps someone could clarify something which has cropped up on another committee I am on. Can, or should, a Chairman express his/her objection to a proposal 'and I want nothing to do with it' because of his/her own feelings? The Sports and Recreation Ground we are fund raising for is to have dogs banned. "In that case it is not for ALL the residents, so I want nothing to do with it" Your comments please. Mike |
Gardening club - activity ideas needed!!!
On Mon, 2 Feb 2004 08:39:47 +0000 (UTC), Mike wrote:
3. A well-established group can become too satisfied with itself or too tightly knit a social group and thus not very welcoming to new members. This may very well be the problem and it takes a very serious look at yourself to see this and admit it. And it has to come from the top. How long have the people on the committee been in office? Do they regard it as 'Their Society'? Our local rock gardening group is fortunate in that its bylaws require committee members to step down after three years. As a result, nearly all members have been on the committee at some point. Moreover, because they've struggled in the kitchen themselves, they tend not to criticize the cooking of whoever's currently on the hook! A provision of this nature is recommended. Otherwise, one must resort to devious Machiavellian tactics to ease long-term incumbents off the committee, and such tactics are neither easy to devise nor easy to carry out. And can take a long time to bring to fruition. How are ideas received by the committee? "Oh we tried that once and it didn't work" and then when you look back to when it was tried, it clashed with the Coronation in 1953!!!!!!!!!! Ah, yes. Seen that too. -- Rodger Whitlock Victoria, British Columbia, Canada [change "atlantic" to "pacific" and "invalid" to "net" to reply by email] |
Gardening club - activity ideas needed!!!
On Mon, 2 Feb 2004 08:39:47 +0000 (UTC), Mike wrote:
3. A well-established group can become too satisfied with itself or too tightly knit a social group and thus not very welcoming to new members. This may very well be the problem and it takes a very serious look at yourself to see this and admit it. And it has to come from the top. How long have the people on the committee been in office? Do they regard it as 'Their Society'? Our local rock gardening group is fortunate in that its bylaws require committee members to step down after three years. As a result, nearly all members have been on the committee at some point. Moreover, because they've struggled in the kitchen themselves, they tend not to criticize the cooking of whoever's currently on the hook! A provision of this nature is recommended. Otherwise, one must resort to devious Machiavellian tactics to ease long-term incumbents off the committee, and such tactics are neither easy to devise nor easy to carry out. And can take a long time to bring to fruition. How are ideas received by the committee? "Oh we tried that once and it didn't work" and then when you look back to when it was tried, it clashed with the Coronation in 1953!!!!!!!!!! Ah, yes. Seen that too. -- Rodger Whitlock Victoria, British Columbia, Canada [change "atlantic" to "pacific" and "invalid" to "net" to reply by email] |
Gardening club - activity ideas needed!!!
On Mon, 2 Feb 2004 08:39:47 +0000 (UTC), Mike wrote:
3. A well-established group can become too satisfied with itself or too tightly knit a social group and thus not very welcoming to new members. This may very well be the problem and it takes a very serious look at yourself to see this and admit it. And it has to come from the top. How long have the people on the committee been in office? Do they regard it as 'Their Society'? Our local rock gardening group is fortunate in that its bylaws require committee members to step down after three years. As a result, nearly all members have been on the committee at some point. Moreover, because they've struggled in the kitchen themselves, they tend not to criticize the cooking of whoever's currently on the hook! A provision of this nature is recommended. Otherwise, one must resort to devious Machiavellian tactics to ease long-term incumbents off the committee, and such tactics are neither easy to devise nor easy to carry out. And can take a long time to bring to fruition. How are ideas received by the committee? "Oh we tried that once and it didn't work" and then when you look back to when it was tried, it clashed with the Coronation in 1953!!!!!!!!!! Ah, yes. Seen that too. -- Rodger Whitlock Victoria, British Columbia, Canada [change "atlantic" to "pacific" and "invalid" to "net" to reply by email] |
Gardening club - activity ideas needed!!!
A provision of this nature is recommended. Otherwise, one must resort to devious Machiavellian tactics to ease long-term incumbents off the committee, and such tactics are neither easy to devise nor easy to carry out. And can take a long time to bring to fruition. The Constitution of an Association has been in force since the IGM in 1998. Various events and highlights have come to the fore and I have put various propositions to change certain elements at the next AGM. I have pointed out in no uncertain terms that these propositions will only be put forward at the members request. All the members are aware of the problems and I have received overwhelming support for the changes. There are a few modifications, but in general the proposals will be for the members benefit and will see a change of Committee members on a routine basis. Now completely Off Topic of Gardening, but perhaps someone could clarify something which has cropped up on another committee I am on. Can, or should, a Chairman express his/her objection to a proposal 'and I want nothing to do with it' because of his/her own feelings? The Sports and Recreation Ground we are fund raising for is to have dogs banned. "In that case it is not for ALL the residents, so I want nothing to do with it" Your comments please. Mike |
Gardening club - activity ideas needed!!!
"Jane Ransom" wrote in message ... We are in the process of bringing our local 'Horticultural Society' into the twenty first century and are looking for ideas for activities that might attract the younger inhabitants of our village. Without being rude, please, does anyone have any brilliant brain waves that might help us out? -- Jane Ransom in Lancaster. How about an exchange of labour - The oldies go round to the newbies and give advice and demonstrate techniques. The newbies in return help the oldies with some digging/pruning or other 'heavy tasks' Try to get some younger speakers - someone who does not look or sound like Percy Thrower :~)) Maybe a talk on modern garden design ? Do you have immigrants in your vicinity ? They can be VERY keen gardeners ! Jenny |
Gardening club - activity ideas needed!!!
"Jane Ransom" wrote in message
... We are in the process of bringing our local 'Horticultural Society' into the twenty first century and are looking for ideas for activities that might attract the younger inhabitants of our village. Without being rude, please, does anyone have any brilliant brain waves that might help us out? Get someone hunky like Diarmud or that other chap, name escapes, me, blond, oh yes, Sven, to give talks on various topics. They'd bring me a running! |
Gardening club - activity ideas needed!!!
"Jane Ransom" wrote in message ... We are in the process of bringing our local 'Horticultural Society' into the twenty first century and are looking for ideas for activities that might attract the younger inhabitants of our village. Without being rude, please, does anyone have any brilliant brain waves that might help us out? -- Jane Ransom in Lancaster. How about an exchange of labour - The oldies go round to the newbies and give advice and demonstrate techniques. The newbies in return help the oldies with some digging/pruning or other 'heavy tasks' Try to get some younger speakers - someone who does not look or sound like Percy Thrower :~)) Maybe a talk on modern garden design ? Do you have immigrants in your vicinity ? They can be VERY keen gardeners ! Jenny |
Gardening club - activity ideas needed!!!
"Jane Ransom" wrote in message
... We are in the process of bringing our local 'Horticultural Society' into the twenty first century and are looking for ideas for activities that might attract the younger inhabitants of our village. Without being rude, please, does anyone have any brilliant brain waves that might help us out? Get someone hunky like Diarmud or that other chap, name escapes, me, blond, oh yes, Sven, to give talks on various topics. They'd bring me a running! |
Gardening club - activity ideas needed!!!
On Tue, 3 Feb 2004 19:14:43 -0000, "Jan" wrote:
"Jane Ransom" wrote in message ... We are in the process of bringing our local 'Horticultural Society' into the twenty first century and are looking for ideas for activities that might attract the younger inhabitants of our village. Without being rude, please, does anyone have any brilliant brain waves that might help us out? Get someone hunky like Diarmud or that other chap, name escapes, The Chippendales? me, blond, oh yes, Sven, to give talks on various topics. They'd bring me a running! -- Martin |
Gardening club - activity ideas needed!!!
In article , Jan
writes Get someone hunky like Diarmud or that other chap, name escapes, me, blond, oh yes, Sven, to give talks on various topics. They'd bring me a running! We'd love to . . . but we don't have enough money!!!!!!!! -- Jane Ransom in Lancaster. I won't respond to private emails that are on topic for urg but if you need to email me for any other reason, put ransoms at jandg dot demon dot co dot uk where you see |
Gardening club - activity ideas needed!!!
"Jane Ransom" wrote in message ... We are in the process of bringing our local 'Horticultural Society' into the twenty first century and are looking for ideas for activities that might attract the younger inhabitants of our village. Without being rude, please, does anyone have any brilliant brain waves that might help us out? -- Jane Ransom in Lancaster. How about an exchange of labour - The oldies go round to the newbies and give advice and demonstrate techniques. The newbies in return help the oldies with some digging/pruning or other 'heavy tasks' Try to get some younger speakers - someone who does not look or sound like Percy Thrower :~)) Maybe a talk on modern garden design ? Do you have immigrants in your vicinity ? They can be VERY keen gardeners ! Jenny |
Gardening club - activity ideas needed!!!
"Jane Ransom" wrote in message
... We are in the process of bringing our local 'Horticultural Society' into the twenty first century and are looking for ideas for activities that might attract the younger inhabitants of our village. Without being rude, please, does anyone have any brilliant brain waves that might help us out? Get someone hunky like Diarmud or that other chap, name escapes, me, blond, oh yes, Sven, to give talks on various topics. They'd bring me a running! |
Gardening club - activity ideas needed!!!
On Tue, 3 Feb 2004 19:14:43 -0000, "Jan" wrote:
"Jane Ransom" wrote in message ... We are in the process of bringing our local 'Horticultural Society' into the twenty first century and are looking for ideas for activities that might attract the younger inhabitants of our village. Without being rude, please, does anyone have any brilliant brain waves that might help us out? Get someone hunky like Diarmud or that other chap, name escapes, The Chippendales? me, blond, oh yes, Sven, to give talks on various topics. They'd bring me a running! -- Martin |
Gardening club - activity ideas needed!!!
In article , Jan
writes Get someone hunky like Diarmud or that other chap, name escapes, me, blond, oh yes, Sven, to give talks on various topics. They'd bring me a running! We'd love to . . . but we don't have enough money!!!!!!!! -- Jane Ransom in Lancaster. I won't respond to private emails that are on topic for urg but if you need to email me for any other reason, put ransoms at jandg dot demon dot co dot uk where you see |
Gardening club - activity ideas needed!!!
On Sun, 1 Feb 2004 17:06:11 +0000, Jane Ransom
wrote: We are in the process of bringing our local 'Horticultural Society' into the twenty first century and are looking for ideas for activities that might attract the younger inhabitants of our village. Without being rude, please, does anyone have any brilliant brain waves that might help us out? No non-brilliant need apply? :-) For adults, herbs seem to generate a lot of interest. Cooking, medicinal (watch it!) properties, cosmetic uses, etc. A program on easily-grown veg (lettuce, peas, beans, radishes) might be appealing, especially considering the cost in stores. Children (and their parents) may be attracted to things like bean teepees and sunflower houses. See: http://tinyurl.com/2e7pk There are many veg and flowers that sprout reliably and return nearly instant gratification for children. Also 'weird' veg, like yard-long beans and strange squash and gourds. |
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