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� Sample Letter to Landowner Property Owner 123 Grand Avenue Our Fair City, MN 55000 Dear [name of landowner], My name is [your narne]. I am contacting you on behalf of the Sunshine Community Garden Committee, a group oi Neighborhood residenls working on starting a community garden in the Neighborhood. Our committee has met several times for planning meetings and has started building a strong and diversified coalition of supporters for the garden including a representative of the Community Hospital Employee Advisory Council (who offered volunteers), the Sweet Library Branch, the Neighborhood Community Council, and the Lutheran Baptist church. We've also had the ongoing support of an experienced community garden organizer from the local non-profit organization, Gardening Matters, who has attended most of our meetings. We've been searching for potential sites for the Sunshine Community Garden (SCG) and have come across your property at 9th Street and Grand Avenue (926 Grand Avenue). As you might guess, the purpose of this letter is to inquire about the possibility of using your land as the site of the garden. We'd love to speak with you in person or over the phone to discuss what hosting a community garden on your property would entail. We'd also like to present to you the beautiful and vibra�t community gathering space we ernision and discuss our proposal in detail. In general, the garden would be a place where community members who don't have their own gardening space (those living in apartment buildings), or who have too much shade (like so many residents in the Neighborhood) could grow nutritious produce on plots that they would rent for the cost of maintaining the garden each year. In addition to making individual plots available to community members, the garden would serve as a gathering place facilitating positive social interactions. Other possible uses for community gardens include offering adult educationa� workshops, youth gardening programs, growing tood for Iocai food bank, and integration within senior centers. The garden would be managed by the not-for-profit Sunshine Community Garden Committee and there would be an elected Garden Coordinator to oversee the project in iis entirety, a Treasurer to handle the money generated by fundraising and the plot rental fee, and a Garden Steward who would be in charge of generat maintenance of the garden and to make sure that ail the gardeners are maintaining their individual plots (this means you would no longer need to take care of the site yourself). Some of the technical issues that would need to be discussed include negotiating a lease, liability insurance, garden rules and regulations, and water access and billing. Of course, all costs for the community garden project would be covered by the SCG Committee and the gardeners. I've included with this letter some general information about community gardens provided by Gardening Matters, including a list of some of the benefits community gardens can bring to a community. The SCG Committee is a well-organized group of interested Neighborhood residents committed to the creation and continued upkeep of a community garden in the Neighborhood. Thank you for your consideration of our proposal. Please feel free to contact me over the phone, email, or by letter to discuss the community garden project in more detaii. My phone number, email address, and maiiing address are included below. Thanks again. Respectful ly, P inPnl�enP]n.�,�anusidAVu.alrh('wnuuniih(�arJcrosr,�ll�_lT,�m,A'rPlr�'dPrnrrhln(br�mnuulcGardriic::lilunJhnnA(711U5i . ... _,. . ... ��.. ��.mndcnin, rncrcnru 1424