View from the garden, looking northwest.
Twice-recycled. The Tangerine Wheel moves to the garden to become our first raised bed.
Philip explains the process of turning the wheel into raised beds solid enough to last.
Planting a salad.
Our beautiful red oak lettuce.
Scrap block from the front retaining wall.
Matt and Philip rebuilding the front retaining wall.
Our first load of zoo manure.
First tomatoes.
Seed bomb prep setup. Screen to the left; piles of dried clay and compost to the right.
We had clay from our last soil pickup, but it needed to be pulverized and sifted to mix with seed and compost. I laid a scrap of plastic down, with a scrap of screen on top, and basically hit the clods with a rock until they became dust.
Clay, compost, bucket.
Seed bombs laid out to dry.
Philip Ramsey, super-citizen, in action. That Burro Bag he's wearing actually transforms into a cape when injustice rears its ugly head.
The three sisters bed is growing nicely.
Strawberries.
Harvesting red oak lettuce seeds to use next season.
Seed harvesting.
Jennifer demonstrates a sky-hook.
This set of doll furniture was carved out of one single block of wood, and they all fit back together into one block.
Why is it so dark? Because Channel 47 arrived at 4:30am to do live video from the garden on Earth Day 2008.
Our first little carrots!
They were so pretty I kept photographing them.
And then I ate 'em!
Squash tendrils!
