The Miller Creek Organic Edible Garden & Outdoor Kitchen was inspired by Alice Waters and Michelle Obama.
This sketch by April Philips Design Works shows my concept for the garden. Since I wrote the proposal we were able to add more space and an outdoor kitchen. I have talked with a number of local Chefs that want to work with students in the kitchen garden. The garden will have a deer fence around the perimeter, and two gates in the back and front. When you first walk in there is a boardwalk path, a series of raised planters, and a wall of woolly pockets. If you keep going toward the middle of the garden there will be an outdoor kitchen, a trellis and an amphitheater to hold events or lessons. We will have a rain cistern, compost bins, tool shed, and a community chalkboard. In the back of the garden we will have a greenhouse and an orchard.
A few details:
- Size- 4,200 square feet
- Rain Cistern- 3,000 gallons for rain water harvesting
- Water needed per year- 4,100 gallons drip
- Shed and Outdoor Kitchen- 10' x 12'
- Greenhouse- 6' x 8'
- Cooking area- 12' x 12' with trellis and mirror
- Seating for 24 on wooden tree trunks
- Compost Bins- 4 = 4' x 4'
- Woolly Pocket Green Wall- 5 rows of 10 pockets per row (50)
- Planters- 10 = 4' x 8'
- Planters- 13 = 2' x 8'
- Planters- 2 = 4' x 4'
- Orchard- 9 = Fruit trees
- Medicinal Herb Planter- 4' x 4'
“The Dixie District is not providing any form of financial support for this project but fully supports the idea and effort of the volunteers and Edible Garden Board of Advisors...”
