Squirrely Garden is the garden at Baby’s amazing Forest School. And I am the CEO of Squirrely Garden (best title ever). As an (unpaid) CEO I think up many duties for myself such as the obvious (weeding, digging, wheelbarrowing) but also documenting the garden’s progress with photos and emailing the school with garden to-do’s. I also designed the layout of the garden when we first dug the plots back in May. When the school wanted to apply for a grant from Gateway Greening, I helped them fill out the application and when it was time to tour the folks from GG with the school owners, I wore a baseball hat that says “Plays in the Dirt”. Clearly I take my CEO duties very seriously. Well, we cinched the deal and got the grant! The install date was today and Squirrely Garden gained four raised beds, six cubic yards of dirt, a slew of garden tools for little hands and the piece de resistance…(I’ll let that one be a surprise for the end of this post)…
A great turnout for the installation of the raised beds!
Baby and her friend checking out the action
Baby taking a break on the death-trap concrete slide soon-to-be ice luge
Woo! Dirt Delivery!
Weeeee!
In addition to installing the raised beds, we also edged some of the existing plots and moved some plants and harvested green tomatoes and lots of herbs.
Dock, sans leaves
Moving lemon grass
Three big lemon grass plants were moved out of the garden down to the playground area. Lemon grass is a natural mosquito repellant.
Many helpers…
Lots of dirt to move
The chef composts everything. This is a method for getting air throughout the pile of green manure.
Move over Richard Serra, Robert Smithson and Michael Heizer.
Squirrely Garden 9.20.14
What’s that?
A little garden snake! (I think it is a juvenile black rat snake)
All the kids got to check it out.
Weeding..and what’s that in the background…leaning on the fence…?
The piece de resistance…
Check out the shiny new sign!
Thanks Gateway Greening!
