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.. title: Minutes from the planning meeting
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.. slug: minutes-from-the-planning-meeting
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.. date: 2014-05-08 20:32:57 UTC+13:00
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.. tags: minutes, planning
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.. description:
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Thanks to those who attended the meeting last Thursday! I'm sorry I've left it so late but here are the minutes from the meeting.
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There was a lot of lively discussion, and some of the ideas and suggestions follow:
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- A Pukerua Bay garden tour fundraiser event
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- Learn from the `Island Bay Community Garden <https://sites.google.com/site/ibbcommunityorchard/>`_ - watch the NZ documentary, `Gardening With Soul <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KkzFh83J8xA>`_ (see below for the trailer)
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- Allotments produce vegetables quickly, while the food-forest take a few years to establish.
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- Allotments also provide social opportunities
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- All sorts of opportunities to involve the school
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- Start the orchard trees off in the school shade-house and get the kids involved early
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- A school trip to learn from Raumati School's garden project
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- Use produce from the food forest in school lunches
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- Beehives
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- Heritage varieties - educational opportunities
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- Growing mushrooms in sawdust, logs, compost
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- Erosion and sediment control plan, if we do any earthworks (e.g. building swales)
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- Use the `PKB Traders Facebook page <https://www.facebook.com/groups/pkb.trading>`_
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Gardening With Soul trailer:
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.. youtube:: KkzFh83J8xA
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:height: 315
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:width: 560
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Expertise
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Amongst the group here we have: gardening, beekeeping, manual labour, web and graphic design, signwriting, building, and a structural engineer, and probably all sorts of other skills I'm not aware of...!
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Actions
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1. There is a **"field trip" this Sunday 11 May** for anyone keen - we're going to look at Pauline's excellent garden at 10am and then go and have a look at the proposed site in Muri Reserve (`see map <http://goo.gl/Odu8Wx>`_). I'm hoping we can get Richard and/or Tim from `Innermost Gardens <http://www.innermostgardens.org.nz/>`_ (Majoribanks Street, Wellington) to come along and help us with ideas.
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2. It's great to have the RA behind the garden scheme, and it's part of the village plan. Iain is going to follow up with getting the required **official permission from Porirua City Council**. This will probably involve some paperwork - some of which will come under the RA banner.
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3. Iain is also going to set up the gardens **email list** - more about that soon.
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4. **Create an A4 poster** for the dairy & school notice boards, school shade house, and something to go in the school newsletter.
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5. If we wanted to we could set about getting the long grass on the site under control with a team of mowers and weed-trimmers at any time, without the council's permission.
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6. Also worth noting there is a **Residents Association meeting on Tuesday 13 May** for those interested.
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