Has anyone here lead a community garden beginning? (Not startup, no money needed. Good joke right?)

Hiya

So my neighbors and I have settled on a little area we own together to make the first community garden in this 50 year old property of multi family buildings.

It’s between two buildings. Nobody in either building is opposed. They either want to participate or don’t care if we go ahead and start.

Now the task is to set up a process for community decisionmaking and take it to the board of directors for the ok.

The two landscaping guys think it’s great. Less for them to mow

I was thinking we’d stake off and tie ropes marking equal areas in shade and sun so every family that wanted either could have.

Thinking we’d start from the middle and ask everyone to choose their area by selecting a space next to another chosen spot so the landscapers don’t have to deal with a patchwork, but one big block.

I was thinking of proposing the City and County of Honolulu community garden rules for debate and vote.

Has anyone worked a community garden plot before? What worked, what didn’t? What would you set up to prevent problems and make things work best?

Mahalo in advance!