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March JCMGA Working Groups Summaries 

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March JCMGA Working Groups Summaries 

 

Community Outreach Working Group 

Chair, Ronnie Budge 

  • No volunteers have come forward for the Jackson County Home Show – but we would like to see if we can get a few volunteers to work it. 
  • Sandy Hammond is organizing our booth for the Josephine Home Show on February 16-18. We have volunteers to work the booth. 
  • We decided to participate in the Medford Open Streets Project this year. It will be held in downtown Medford on April 19 and/or May 17 from 4-8 p.m. We decided to participate on May 17th only. Barbara will organize this event. 
  • We are continuing to work on the details for the Friends of the Gardens program – which will start in April. 
  • We discussed the coir donation. Sherri will check with Community Gardens to see if they are interested (maximum of 2 per garden). 

 

Fundraising Working Group 

Chair, Jane Moyer 

  • There wasn’t a meeting this month. 

 

Garden Working Group   

Chair, Janine Salvatti 

  • We had our first meeting for this year. 
  • Plans are underway. 
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Marketing and Technology Working Group 

Co-Chairs – Barbara Low and Keltie Nelson 

We will be focusing on updating our JCMGA Marketing Plan. 

 

Member Services Working Group 

Chair, Barbara Low 

We are continuing to work on the JCMGA Chapter (Membership) Directory, which we plan on having sent out the end of March. 

We are continuing to work on the details for the Friends of the Gardens program – which will start in April. 

 

Program Support Working Group 

Chair is Grace Florjancic 

The Plants for Gramps grant proposal has been submitted! We would know in the middle of March if we received funding to initiate this program. Thank you to everyone for helping support this idea and getting us closer to making it a reality. 

 

Spring Garden Fair Working Group 

co-Chairs – Marcie Katz and Lucy Pylkki 

Plans are underway for the 2024 Spring Garden Fair which will be May 4 and 5 at the SOREC grounds. 

Mark your calendars. 

 

Winter Dreams Summer Gardens Working Group 

chairs are Colet Allen, Susan Koenig, and Barbara Low 

We have started meeting to plan for the 2024 WDSG!