Tuesday, September 8, 2009

View from a Ladder: The Evolving Garden

It’s been a busy year for the Local Food Project and there’s no better way to get perspective on all the changes than to climb up on the sixteen foot ladder and get a bird’s eye view of the evolving garden. We can take in the entire boundary of the expanded fenceline and see how the sections we newly tilled this year fit in with the overall layout of our growing space. We can look down on the passive solar hoophouse and realize how big a role it’s playing in our summer vegetable production. We can gaze at two new herb garden areas (the heart and the baseball diamond) and check out the progress of our sprouting buckwheat cover crop. And we can look forward to a productive fall and winter season, with our eyes already on plans for next spring. The view from up here is amazing!

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