For the past several months, we have been involved with a project sponsored by the local food bank to start a community garden. I agreed to be the project coordinator and have been able to meet lots of great people in the community.
The town has a fenced off land dedicated to community gardening that has been abandoned for years. Ground squirrels, bunnies, and insufficient irrigation led to it's downfall. We took a lot of advice from the community garden in Green Valley and decided to invest in metal cattle troughs to plant in. Critters can't climb up the metal edges!
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| The before picture- abandoned garden plots |
I convinced Aaron to make the irrigation a service project for his 11 year old scouts. 5 of them showed up with their parents, and I was surprised by how hard working they were.
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| Trenches dug mostly by child labor |
We had a compost soil mix delivered from a supplier up in town.
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| Elliot loved watching the tractor. Or at least he did for the first 20 minutes, after which he played with my phone. |
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| Parks & Rec guys have been really accommodating. It would have taken forever if we didn't have their tractor there. |
We had some last minute setbacks with only 6 of our 10 tanks being delivered in time for our kick off. That ended up being ok, since a handful of the groups didn't show up. The ones that did had a great time, and hopefully we get into the swing of things with a full capacity of gardeners.
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| Going for the coal miner look with his filthy face and rock collection |
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| The after picture! Hopefully this will be brimming with greenery soon! |
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