The Grounds Committee meets from time to time to discuss budgets and major projects. However, the gardening is done cooperatively and communally by small groups or individuals who “Adopt-A-Plot” to plant and maintain. The list of coordinators or workers for the various areas is posted in the mailroom, including lawn mowing. If you would like to work in or offer contributions of plants for a particular plot, contact the coordinator or others who are signed up as interested in that plot. Additional workers are always welcome.
The vegetable garden is a “community garden” at the present time, so that no individual “owns” any of the beds or vegetables. A few people who like doing that kind of thing do the work cooperatively. Those who do the work get to decide what they want to plant but the vegetables are available for anyone in the community to pick. A notice will go up on the white board in the common house lobby indicating that a particular crop is ready to pick. Anyone interested in joining in should drop by in the early evening or weekends, when there will likely be a gardener or two at work.
Owners of units with exclusive-use areas are responsible for any work done in those areas. However, the owners must check with the community before undertaking a major permanent activity such as building fences, gazebos, pergolas, or large planter boxes to separate your area from your neighbors’. Bring the plans to the Grounds Committee who will offer advice, or help you decide whether it is something already included in the Master Plan or whether it will require review by the Design Committee.
(Rowena Conkling, 2005)