Today at the Garden

Today, Elizabeth planted the seedlings she has been nursing from seeds in the cold frame. These are the first of the seedlings we planted in the frame since it was given to us by our friends at the Free Farm. Elizabeth also made the salad for our garden meeting today. It's really exciting to be able to be a part of the planting process from seed to stomach!

Joseph, one of our peer outreach mentors sweeps up the leaves on the sidewalks around the garden and puts them in our compost bins. Joseph is a great protector of the worms in the worm bins and has great ideas about how to keep our compost compounding.

See the big green sail we put up at the garden today? This, sail will help us to have a shady area where we have our weekly garden meetings and will provide a space for folk to get out of the hot sun. Now we just have to wait for the rainy season to end and for the sun to come back out! You'll notice that we will be getting lots of new things at the garden in the next few weeks. The supplies and materials are from the final disbursement of our Community Challenge Grant.

The oregano donated by the 2nd and 6th grade students of the SF Friends School is doing very where in our painted cans hanging on our fencing.

We put together this garden shelving that has a pvc cover to act as a green house. One of our formerly homeless gardening friends asked for this shelf so he could propagate house plants that could be given as "welcome to your new home" presents for homeless folk who get housing. Stay tuned for updates about how this project goes. The volunteers at the garden are excited to have more projects they can work on during the slow growing rainy season and to be able to provide the health that comes from being around plants with individuals who may not be able to make it out to the garden.