I was out weeding this morning and again thought of starting a group of garden helpers. I thought it would be a great idea to have a group of about 8-10 people who would help other club members with their overwhelming gardening chores, in exchange for lunch and participation in a set number of other gardening weekends.
For instance - you need to have help mulching your yard - it would take you three days of work to get it done yourself. You set up a saturday morning visit of the garden friends who come and do the mulching with you to get it done in a few hours. In exchange, you provide lunch/cold drinks for the workers, and then commit to joining the group helping others for the 3 days you would have had to work to get the job done yourself. That way, no one is working more than a few hours on any Saturday. It's kind of like a Habitat for Humanity garden style.
Does anyone have any suggestions to this idea? One person I mentioned it to thought it would be slave labor, but I see it more like a gardening co-op.
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What a great idea Bryan! I thought about this sort of thing too. Collectively, we can accomplish a whole lot more than individually. I think that a certain number of people would be willing to do this in order to help others and also eventually have some help for themselves.
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