Community is alive and well…Or, in danger of becoming a gardening blog.

Pile

What do you do if you have a couple new raised beds in your backyard and a big pile of rich, black, smelly dirt in the driveway? Make soup! That’s right, make soup. Then call some people up and invite them over for lunch in exchange for hauling a few wheelbarrows full of dirt into the backyard. It worked! Both new friends and old showed up and it was like an old-fashioned barn raising. Some friends brought a friend of theirs so there was one person who’d never even met us out there hauling our dirt. People had fun, connected, and it was a great day. We learned that sometimes you just have to ask for help. Now I know who I’m giving all that zucchini to come August.

Haul

Halfway there!

Beds

Done!

Seeds

We’re growing our own food.

Seedlings

Please Sprout.

Share and Enjoy:
  • Print
  • Digg
  • Sphinn
  • del.icio.us
  • Facebook
  • Mixx
  • Google Bookmarks
  • Blogplay
This entry was posted in gardening. Bookmark the permalink. Post a comment or leave a trackback: Trackback URL.

One Comment

  1. sara
    Posted March 4, 2008 at 12:34 pm | Permalink

    hey – we’re gardening here too – i just got online last night (things move slowly in new zealand) and i have lots of pictures of our garden-to-be as well – we’re addicted to our back yard! can’t wait to see if they sprout… miss you and will post and write soon…

Post a Comment

Your email is never published nor shared. Required fields are marked *

*
*

You may use these HTML tags and attributes: <a href="" title=""> <abbr title=""> <acronym title=""> <b> <blockquote cite=""> <cite> <code> <del datetime=""> <em> <i> <q cite=""> <strike> <strong>

  • Buy My Books



  • Shop Chronicle Books

    Cookbook

  • Archives


  • Categories


  • Connect with Vanessa

    Twitter Facebook RSS

    Enter your email address to
    receive my blog posts via email:
    Delivered by FeedBurner

  • Copyright Information

    The recipes and images on this site belong to Vanessa Barrington. Feel free to link here and if you’d like to use a recipe or image, please ask permission first. Thank you.