La Casa Grande Colectiva

Tag: beds

  • Gardening only leads to more chicken photos

    Today folks were relaxing in the yard.
    Relaxing on the Yard
    While Kannan and JohnE dug a fresh bed. Wherever there’s fresh dirt, the chickens gotta peck at it.
    Chickens invade the new bed
    Noms!
    (click on the picture to see it full size!)
    JohnE tried to feed the chickens.
    Worms
    And then he did some majestic shirtless log juggling.
    Shirtless Log Juggling

  • garden progress, weekend recap

    There were several changes made to the garden landscape this weekend.
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    Ronna sowed a bed of peas and lettuceRonna works on the pea and lettuce bed.
    Rob, Rob, and members of the Catholic Worker House turned the old compost pile.
    talking about compost
    Mac, Kannan, and JohnE pulled up some sod to make a vegetable bed for the members of their house.
    chicken inspects fresh bed
    We began digging a hole at the end of the canal system that runs through the garden.  We spent a lot of energy and the pond that forms will probably get really gross.  We did use the topsoil to raise a few vegetable beds in order to alleviate the Sping flood that we’re expecting.
    THE HOLE