Our Orchard and Spring Volunteer Workday

Peyton and I making garden houses



morning weeding and mulching

The garden is all good! Last week we had another volunteer workday and we got a lot done. We took out some over-grown plants and put new ones, and moved ALL the mulch to the sides. My dad worked on perfecting the irrigation so we didn’t have to lug the hose around everywhere. (Finally!) But it wasn’t up that day so we had to water the garden the old fashiond way. The good news is, is that all the rain made the plants grown huge and it was very sunny when we were working. On the down side, I forgot sunscreen.

What did they find?

Dads moving the mulch

Moi, Gabby,  moving mulch the fun way!

veggies ready to harvest

It was a very sunny day and hot

our little orchard

adding organic fertlizers to woolly pockets

more weeding





Labor Day Weekend

painting crew getting started

This weekend we did a LOT of painting, digging and shoveling. On Saturday the paint crew did the first coats of paint to our shed/kitchen. We started flattening the ground with rakes and shovels. My dad used a trencher to dig the irrigation trenches. The trencher was donated for the weekend from Bobcat West, a Pape' Company. On Sunday one volunteer crew laid in the irrigation purple pipe, the 7th grade girls started putting in the gopher wire, while the 8th grade girls shoveled mulch into the garden from the mulch pile donated by Treemasters. On Monday the mulch was finished by some 9th graders, the irrigation lines were pressure tested and we leveled the planter box beds. All in all a very busy three days for the garden volunteers who came to work. Here is what it looked like:

6th grade boys

Audrey, Emma's sister helping us paint

my dad using the trencher to dig

the main trench line for our purple pipe right down the middle

Irrigation pipe going into trench

two  shots of the work crews

cutting gopher wire for planters

8th grade girls shoveled a lot of mulch on Sunday

Peyton, a 6th grader, worked hard this weekend

Peyton's brother Tristan and dad Marcus lining the planters

Tristan and Joe finishing the mulch with bobcat on Monday

PEETS @ Northgate donated the coffee this weekend again.

How the garden looked today after the long holiday weekend