Friday, April 26, 2013

Work Party May 5th

There is a work-party planned for May 5th to start raking and plotting new raised beds! Come one, come all. Bring your gloves and gardening boots as our plot is all dirt now and may be muddy. Time: 10 am - 2 pm.

Wednesday, April 10, 2013

Level Site!

Our P-Patch site is now leveled! A huge thank you to Frank Shields of ExcavatorsNW for donating time and equipment to move all that earth. And here's a call out to the volunteers who showed up on a super rainy Sunday to help out! Keep an eye out for updates about future work parties to build our raised beds and planning meetings to, well, make plans.  Dates TBA.

Monday, April 1, 2013

And the Rebuild begins!

Next Sunday, April 7, there will be a work party between 10 and 2pm.  We will have an excavator on-site and will be leveling the site, moving the compost bins and removing more of the boxwood hedges.  The next work-parties will have us building our raised garden beds! Come and start rebuilding the University Heights P-Patch!

Work Party Report for Sun, March 24

At the last work party we isposed of most of the plastic lumber and other debris on the site, as well as the boxwood hedge, to the north of the garden.  Our fearless leader, Geoff, has been arranging with UHCC for the last two weeks for a excavator to come in and level our site (and move our collected garden soil) in preparation for building our raised beds.  The good news is that Frank Shields of Excavators NW has agreed to donate his time for our project.  Frank was involved in Ballard P-Patch's renovation last year, and  will be a very valuable resource. Look for our upcoming excavation work party.