La Casa Grande Colectiva

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  • Garden Going

    We hope you will be tickled that the La Casa gardens biggest bed, the Rib, has now been turned over! And soon it will be home to the type of little green things that are popping up all over out there. If you want specifics, Ronna knows all.
    Rib picture coming soon?
    Don double digging the arc shaped bed

  • weekend update, permaculturist, beds, holes, lots of talk, and eggplant parmesan

    There’s a lot going around the house these days. Here’s a quick recap of the weekend.
    Transplanting sod to the front yard
    Andrew and Ronna transplanted some of the sod that was leftover from new garden beds to a bare spot in the front yard. Sophie supervised.
    Rob and Peter chat in the garden
    Rob brought over a friend and longtime permaculture expert, Peter Bane, for a chat in the garden. It turns out the Peter grew up in Urbana and had lots of stories about home-scale food production in the area.
    Gretchen and eggplant parmesian
    Gretchen brought over some eggplants and whipped up a two stellar pans of eggplant parmesan, one vegan. It was incredibly delicious.

    There were many hours spent outside, digging, thinking, and moving.  Plans for the pond that we’re digging have taken off.  Now we’re thinking about ducks, fish, and waterfalls, although lots of research needs to be done still.  Garden excavations have continued, and Mac, Kannan, and JohnE have improved their beds with compost and more topsoil.  Ronna has been ‘potting-up’ some of the seedlings as its not yet time to move them outside.  All in all a good weekend.

  • 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