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The Communuity Garden

While Stacy has been off to Boise for those state meetings most of this week, she ask me to water the garden plots she got. So I took these pictures this morning on my way to work after I stopped to water the three plots we have in this section of the areas three community garden plots.


We were told this is the first time the community has gotten together and set up areas for residents to rent these garden plots. Stacy got into to it last March in the beginning as an idea our supervisor had for our job. But the job end of it fell through so we paid for the plots ourselves and Stacy planted seeds of things we'd like, such as corn and veggies like that. It was started in conjunction with the group we'd never heard of called "G.R.O.W.". The plots are 4 feet by 20 feet, and like I mentioned, this is only one of three or four of them at various locations around the city. This one is the most visible because it sits almost next door to a local church.














This started out as a small vacant lot that just had stuff stored on it. It was cleaned out, and everything seen in the photos was brought in for the gardens. Deer and rabbit proof fencing, water, planting soil was mixed with the dirt and sawdust was laid for the walkways.














This county is a really good farming area, and there are quite a few large home gardens, many can be seen as you drive around the area. But many people, like those in town with not much yard space, or even those like us that have almost 6 acres, but its so full of trees that you can't grow a garden (yet!), like the idea of something like this. A couple of the plots here and an entire section at another location have been set aside for the local food bank.
It's coming along nicely. Stacy has been taking photos since it was started. I'll post some to compare after the crops get larger.

I think Stacy enjoys it, she has a degree in agronomy (plant sciences) and gets to use her knowledge much more here in this area than she ever could back in the high desert of California!
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Camdin said…
I've heard of community gardening and think it is great I read about fencing the areas because of rabbits and deer.Does the area have any ground squirrels problems this is what Jimmy is facing some of what he planted is coming up really good like the bell peppers and hot peppers the strawberries is another story. Have a super good week starting tomorrow.. Love to all
June 7, 2009 at 12:33 PM
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