Back in November we put in our application to be a part of GRuB's
Kitchen Garden Project. GRuB is a local non-profit organization that provides youth education and helps the community learn about growing, preparing, and eating from their own gardens! The Kitchen Garden Project selects around 60 community members every year and helps them start their very own garden. They will come out to the house of selected recipients and help them build three garden beds, and provide them with starter plants, seeds, gardening guides and advice. KGP members are invited to GRuB classes throughout the year to learn more about gardening and preparing their own foods.
We were so lucky and blessed to be selected as a KGP family! Getting the garden started is the biggest job and we really appreciated the help! GRuB volunteers came out to our house on April 9, 2015 and helped us dig three garden beds! We chose the "double dug" style of garden rather than a raised bed garden. Our family and volunteers dug down under the grass about 2 feet deep. We turned the soil over, placing the grass at the bottom of the plot and covering it up with more soil and compost. Each bed is 4 ft x 8 ft and had 6 wheelbarrows full of compost added to each bed! It was quite a process!
Here are some pictures of the process from start to finish on the day of our garden build.
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| BEFORE |
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| Family & Volunteers starting to dig! |
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| adding in lots of compost! |
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| The finishing touches |
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| Group photo! |
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| Some starts that GRuB brought us! They brought seeds too! |
Many thanks again to GRuB for helping us get our garden plot started! We had to wait awhile before planting anything. First, we needed to wait for the compost to "cool" and settle. Also, we needed to get a fence put up to keep the deer out - as we get deer wandering through the yard often!
