WORK DAY - again

With much to do in the Spring we scheduled a second Work Day of the 2013 season.  This week-no rain just C-O-L-D.

We built a fire. Made some coffee and got to work.

Some cleared the Prairie...

Some squared, leveled, moved and filled the 4 new raised beds.  There is more to do but thanks to so many gardeners (large and small) and high school volunteers (and parent) we accomplished a lot. 

 Potatoes are here.  Some gardeners got them planted.

We put out the signs.

Peach trees were planted, snacks were shared and thanks to the Yau family we had a great lunch.

See you next week.

Year 5 Has a Soggy Start

 

Some years Opening Day has been cold but never rainy-until this year. 
Despite the wet morning on Saturday, a handful of gardeners and 3 Gateway Greening staff members got a start on installing the 4 new raised beds.


Steve and Scott (from Gateway Greening)
Just for the record-it was COLD.  Scott is from Oregon & is used to being cold and wet.

Scott, Dan, James and Chelsea from GGI, Doug  

 

Gardeners trickled in all morning.  Not much work to do because of the mud. 
We signed up returning gardeners, talked about the coming growing season.

At 11:00 Nathan Brandt, horticultural specialist with MU Extension, 
taught the assembled 20 or so
all about fruit tree care and pruning. 
Thanks to everyone who helped prune our peach trees.