These are the adventures of Mira and Jaffna, two high school seniors, as they volunteer at Riverview Gardens, an urban farm trying to help poverty and unemployment in the Fox Cities area. We will be sharing our shenanigans and mischief as well as the life lesson or two that is learned going through this awesome experience. Hopefully you will be able to see why Riverview has become our outdoor classroom of unconventional teaching.
Friday, March 1, 2013
Sorry about the terrible quality of these pictures. The type of camera I have has a serious problem with light. But hopefully you can make out the five trays of onions that we planted, and the inside of the hoop house below! That's primarily where we've been the past three or so days. They've actually flooded in some spots. The trenches we did for the beds just fill up with water.
We fill them in with wood chips which help absorb moisture as well as provide a nourishing and airy soil for the plants to grow in. So far, planted in the hoop houses are garlic, spinach, kale, lettuce, and rosemary. Some plants are tolerating the cold better than others.
I will try to get my camera fixed somehow, and then post some better pictures.
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Ohmygoodness. I was hoping that the pictures would magically look better not in the draft-form. They still look terrible. Ugh. My apologies my dear readers who have not yet materialized.
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