June 27, 2007

Getting Ready for the Taste of Chicago

Hello and welcome back. We are currently finishing up building a compost bin and a worm bin for the Taste of Chicago. Justin Cummings, Academic Hourly, has been helping us. It has been a new experience of its own, and we have learned a lot about craftsmanship. For example, we now know what it is like to not measure perfectly and have to go back and re-cut pieces to make them fit. Also, there are some types of wood that don't work with certain sized nails and because of this the wood cracks! Finally, always use newspaper to protect the ground when staining because stain does stain even concrete.

We were landscapers the past few days. The University of Illinois Extension has a series of demonstration gardens at the Ag School. Over the past few days we tilled the beds and layed mulch. This job is labor intensive, but there is one upside to it, we get to use the Gator. What is the Gator? It is the greatest invention known to any true landscaper. It is a combination between a dump truck and a golf cart. This vehicle made our task much less time consuming and allowed us to do an efficient job.

Tomorrow we will be having working with children from Mt. Greenwood Park's Special Recreation program. We will be teaching them how to plant in our earthboxes. They will also be planting some peppers and doing some weeding in the Mt. Greenwood Children's Garden.

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