Sunday, April 25, 2010

Community Gardening- The Weekly Challenge Update


Very busy week... been helping to get the community garden ready to go... collecting cardboard, tools, signing up a bed for mom, moving wheelbarrows full of compost. So didn't get as much done around my own house as I would've liked. But oh well! Onto the challenges:

Sharon's Independence Days Challenge Year 3, week 14
1. Plant something: Cayenne pepper, Jalapeno Pepper, Banana Pepper, Green Bell Pepper
2. Harvest something: nothing3. Preserve something: nothing
4. Reduce Waste (recycle, reuse, reduce, repair or compost something): Reused Pizza boxes for weed block; Saved up a bunch of 4” planting pots for Sustainable Burien to put wild strawberry plants in to give away at this years Wild Strawberry Festival; recieved a wheelbarrow that needed a new wheel from one of the community garden's neighbors and replaced the wheel now the community garden has a wheel barrow
Collected vast quantities of used, thrown away cardboard for the community garden to use for weed block;
5. Preparation and Storage: Applied for a plot in the Community Garden with my mom. Won’t know until May 12th if we got one.
6. Build Community Food Systems: Volunteered time, tools, and labor to the new Community Garden; Saved up a bunch of 4” planting pots for Sustainable Burien to put wild strawberry plants in to give away at this years Wild Strawberry Festival' recieved a wheelbarrow that needed a new wheel from one of the community garden's neighbors and replaced the wheel now the community garden has a wheel barrow
7. Eat the Food (cook or eat something new): Some local bacon in my ghetto version of Welsh Rarebit,
 
Garden Challenge "Extreme Evangelist Edition" - Saved up a bunch of 4” planting pots for Sustainable Burien to put wild strawberry plants in to give away at this years Wild Strawberry Festival; Collected vast quantities of cardboard for the community garden to use for weed block; Volunteered time, tools, and labor to the new Community Garden; Obtained some raspberry plants to donate to the community garden, recieved a wheelbarrow that needed a new wheel from one of the community garden's neighbors and replaced the wheel- now the community garden has a wheel barrow

2 comments:

Melinda said...

Awesome, Rob - sounds like your community garden is really coming along. Love that you received a wheel barrow with a broken wheel, and FIXED it. :) Wild Strawberry Festival... mmmmmm.

Robj98168 said...

It just so happened I had a spare wheel because I never throw anything out! You should come on down to the Strawberry festival! I will be there working- both days- One day with the Bike Carnival and the second day with Sustainable Burien!