Halfway Update

This garden has come a long way in the weeks we have been here.  From our original list of tasks, we have:

• Reclaimed several beds
• Redone a few paths
• Planted tomatoes, peas, beets, sunflowers, borage, corn, and many others
• Finished all the GardenShare donation letters
• Built 3 new raised beds, and we will soon be assembling more cold frames that we ordered
• Connected with Campus Kitchens and donated cilantro and lettuce
• Researched greenhouses, yurts and seed-saving
• Continually weeded and watered our beds and mowed the garden
• Maintained our compost bin with grass clippings, coffee, and food scraps
• Created new trails to the Opportunities sculpture and the Protest Tree and bridge
• Wrote tool kits for GardenShare, practical how-to guides for them to hand out to participants at their food day youth summit, on composting and starting a garden club at local high schools
• Thoroughly weeded out the overrun blueberry and garlic beds

The garden is looking great, and is well on its way to a bountiful harvest later this summer and fall!

~Sean