Jan 16-27, 2012

Week of Jan 23: 
     Last week we also went out to the garden to water the crops and we saw that it was looking good, so we are excited to see the process and how the cilantro, turnips and carrots turn out. We were also looking at the citrus trees we wanted to plant in the other half of the garden, but it turns out that these tress have a plague and we will not be able to plant them. We are already looking at how we will be fixing this little bump on the road; I am positive that we will have a solution and we won't loss time trying to fix it. We were also given the chance to sell after school on report card night and we made about $250. By doing this I think that we will be closer to our goal for the wood and that way we will be able to continue building the raised beds.

January 16-27, 2012

 Week of Jan 16:
    So over the course of these last two weeks, we have been able to move forward with the project at an average speed. I was hoping to have more accomplished by this time, but we had some monetary issues and we could not buy all the wood at one time so we had to change our plans. Nidia and I talked to the farmer Justin and decided that maybe we could start with the 6 raised bed we had built already and have two rows of regular planting. We opted for this option because we knew that we would not be able to get money soon and we had to get vegetables planted soon if we wanted to have a harvest. in the end, it all worked out and it turned out to be faster that we had imagined.

The Progress:

 

 So far we have been able to work on the making of 6 raised bed of 28x14x6. Today we went to talk to farmer Justin and he told us that it would be in everyones' best interest to change the dimensions of the bed to perhaps 12in high as we have rabbits and possums that like vegetables.

We plan on adding citrus tress on the other of the small garden and beautify it once we have added the raised beds and are in the process of planting the trees.

 This is what it looks like at the moment. Its still a work in process but I feel confident that by the end of April we will have made a bigger accomplishment by completing the garden and have a harvest ready to either donate or sell at the farmers market.

So we have began working on the actual garden with the raised beds, and the plan is to do half of the area with these raised ands and the rest with citrus trees.

The Start:

These pictured were from some of the work we have been doing since November, I failed to upload them before as I did not have them with me, but here they are now. I believe this was November 16 of 2011. This day we had a group of people come in and help us from the Wellness & Environmental Club as a way to learn basic skills needed to be successful farmers.