Fence is complete

Today, Balso, the Brazilian madman, finished building the fence around our Community Garden (see the pic at the top of the blog). He does great work. He worked all day Friday, Saturday, Sunday, and Monday to finish the fence.


The extra-special part of it all is that two of the Members of our Community Garden DONATED the materials AND the labor (Balso) to build the fence for our garden. GRATIS. It is a rather overwhelming gift.

The above picture is shot from our rooftop deck, looking at the "service entrance" that Balso built. And below is a corner of the garden. We put in three regular-sized gates and one service gate.


This Saturday we will have an official "Groundbreaking" for our garden, even though 18 or 19 of the beds have already "broken ground" and plants are growing strongly in most of those. We also planted four young citrus trees in the corner in a small citrus orchard.


The Members chipped in and bought a shed onsite to keep tools and such in.....


Added a compost bin ... another to come ....


So far, this has been an awesome experience, seeing what people can do when they work together. We've met neighbors ("gardeneighbors" if you will) we didn't know we had, and other Members of the garden we've known for a long time, and we're grateful to have such good friends. Now, if we can just figure out how to keep the worst bugs AWAY!!