First Meeting Day

Good morning.  At today's meeting, we are going to talk a little about how we will communicate with you and how you can communicate with us.  There are four main ways.

1. At Work Days.  At garden work days, we often will share important garden information, so make sure you check in with the Garden Leadership Committee when you're there.  In addition, work days are a great time to meet people in the garden and get more involved in the garden leadership.
   
2. Email.  We will occasionally send you emails reminding you about events or meetings.  We will also communicate via email if we need to contact you for other reasons.
3. This website.  Whenever we have an announcement, we will post it on this website on the Announcements page.  You should check the website often for updates, as we will regularly add and update information to the website.
4. Blog.  Right now you are reading our blog.  Here is where we will post notices that changes have been made to the website.  The blog will also serve a few other purposes.  This is  where different Garden Leadership members will post items of interest to the Ruby Garden community.  In addition, any plotholder can submit a blog post about a garden related topic, including any photographs, to us at our email address.
   

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