- Dec 1, 2018
In recent days, a number of sheds on the Site were broken into and things were reported as taken from some of the sheds. The nature and extent of the damage suggests that the break-ins were systematic.
Please can plotholders with sheds check your sheds as soon as you can. Although it might not be as convenient if tools and any items of value are not stored in your shed, it is worth thinking carefully about the possible risks of storing such items in your shed.
- Nov 25, 2018
If you see someone block the bays, tell them "Please, stop!" Volunteers arrange free manure for the benefit of all plotholders. If the manure bay is blocked, deliveries cannot be made and the stables go elsewhere. All users of free manure suffer.
Last week, whether as a result of fly tipping or good intentions not thought through, large amounts of shredded tree waste were dumped in front of CPAGA's garage door and the manure bay. Volunteers had to spend their Sunday with shovels and barrows to clear the blockage. If you see somebody block the CPAGA garages, tell them "Please, stop!" If the garage doors cannot be opened, all plotholders who want to buy cheap compost, manure or fertilizers from the Shop suffer.
Under their agreements with Merton, each plotholder promises to not deposit any vegetable matter, refuse, or rubbish of any description on any land beyond the boundary of his or her own plot and to not obstruct any path set out by Merton for the use of plotholders. That includes the land and paths immediately in front of the bays and garages. If you see somebody breaking that promise, please ask them to stop and think again.
If any plotholder would like advice about how to compost green waste on their plot, do contact the Management Committee. Books and advice on composting are available in the Shop on Sunday mornings.
- Nov 18, 2018
Members of CPAGA's Management Committee and its President met on Sunday 18 November 2018 in the John Gray Centre.
Terri Pilgrem resigned from the Committee, having given notice of her intention to do so earlier in the year. In accordance with Paragraphs 7(a) and (b) of the Constitution, the Committee co-opted Bree Halliday to the Committee and appointed her to the post of Trading Manager.
Agenda items included matters arising at the previous meeting on 16 September 2018, the reports of Officers, a proposed communication from idverde to all plotholders in respect of the intended future use of the waste bay, the turning off by Merton of the water supply to the Site and the adverse consequences for the availability of flushing toilets during Winter, and plans for the Christmas Party on Sunday, 2 December 2018.
The next meeting of the Management Committee is scheduled for 24 February 2019.
