How did you get started?
How is it going?
What are our future goals?
History and Future Plans
How did you get started?
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First thing - we had to do something to turn the grass into plantable space.
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Then - begin the fence and its post holes. We learned the ground was tougher than we thought. More weight on the auger helped.
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Posts were cemented in. We then built each panel of the fence, and installed each panel.
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Everybody helped out.
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Finally, we had a defined garden space within a protective fence.
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Finally, finally: a permanent sign.
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How is it going?
The garden is now open to the entire community to pick whatever folks would like. In addition to this, we've been able to provide harvests to several places: primarily the Parktown Food Hub, but also to Moretz Manor (a traumatic brain injury home sponsored by Luther Services of the Carolinas), and also to other local residents for whom fresh organic food is a luxury. In 2021, we provided over 150 pounds of produce.
What are our future goals?
Keep existing footprint.
We plan to stay within our existing fenced boundaries. We are redesigning the layout for greater access and increased planting area, in an ongoing fashion over the coming years.
We need new beds!
We've learned a lot over the past years. One of those things we've learned is that we need longer lasting raised beds. We'll be replacing all of the beds over the next few years.
Native / pollinator plants
We’re adding more flowers and native plants to support bees, butterflies and the like (see Garden Creatures section).
