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GARBAGE AND WASTE
OVF
requests that you separate woody material such as rose bush
prunings, rosemary, and any branches, from your garden waste
and place them on the left side of the pile of the shredding
pile. This will allow the shredding crew to install the screen
on the shredder before putting the woody material in the
machine. This will chop this material into a fine mulch and
improve the composted product by eliminating wood chips from
the final "ready" pile. A sign has been installed
in the shredding area instructing members where to put the
branch material. This applies to Phase 4 members also, except
that they should place their woody material on the right
side of the main shredding pile in the Phase IV area.
ROSE BUSH PRUNINGS
When you're ready to prune your rose bushes, take the
cuttings to the left side of the orchard for shredding. If
you drop cuttings onto the pathways, please stop and pick
them up. Almost all of the flat tires on the wheelbarrows
are caused
from thorns. If you are walking in the garden and see a thorny
plant in the path, please stop and pick it up and put it
in the shredding areas.
RECYCLING
The City of L.A. provides OVF with 2 dumpsters. They are
for trash only. They do not want vegetation put into them.
Please cooperate and do not put any vegetation of any kind
into them. Put all vegetation and woody material in the proper
shredding pile in the orchard. DO NOT put them into the plastic
trash barrels.
GREEN BARREL: This is for all Nut Grass and False
Garlic The green barrel is located in the orchard.
BLUE BARREL: This is for your cardboard, paper, and
plastic plant containers. The blue barrel is located between
the sheds.
OLD WOOD
There are two places to dispose of old wood. If it is in
good condition, take it to the lumber cage for other members
to reuse. If it is rotten beyond use put it behind the larger
of the two sheds in the orchard for chipping. If possible
please remove any nails, screws or other foreign objects.
OLD PIPES
If you have old pipes on your plot that you aren't
using, put these under the lumber cage also. We always have a need for salvaged pipes for walls for members' plots.
CORN AND SUNFLOWER STALKS
When removing your corn and sunflower stalks, it would be
most helpful to the Shredding Crew if all members would cut
the root ball off the stalk before bringing it to the shredding
area. The stalks are put into the Chipper device and dirt
ruins the cutting knives. Please place the dirt balls on
the right side with the green material and the stalks on
the left side with the woody material.
GARDEN SOIL IS A PRECIOUS RESOURCE
Although we live in a throw-away society some things are
not that easily replaced, such as us and the food-growing
soil.
Please do not put soil in the trash barrels or the green
barrels. You should not be throwing your soil away. If you
are digging out nut grass or false garlic, screen it to save
your soil. A plastic plant flat with fine holes is effective.
After digging up plant material, please remember to shake
the soil off the plant material. Then satisfy some of life's
hostilities by whacking each root ball against the tool that
you used for digging. [Do this as many times as necessary
to save the soil and relieve your tensions!] This also aids
the shredding crew who are finding too much valuable soil
around plant materials.
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