Archive for May, 2008

gardening to build community

Wednesday, May 28th, 2008

I’m starting to discover what all the fuss is about. everyone on the web seems to think that gardening is a great way to build community, and i’ve found that out already. We recently got a huge shipment of compost, used over 3/4 of it on our yard, and still had a significant [...]

garden progress, finally

Monday, May 26th, 2008

ok, there were many delays, but we finally put our shovels where our mouth was. We covered our entire back yard with cardboard a few weeks ago, but just now got a big shipment of compost from the city composting facility. i moved most of the big steamy pile onto our backyard today, [...]