work day at Amanda's Garden

I was so amazed at the group of people who showed up for the first work day! It was perfect weather, we all learned so much and everyone got a lot of done!
It was really a wonderful community learning event! Thanks you to all who have worked so hard all these years to make this Permaculture so beautiful! ;)

I got a few good pictures that I am attaching here and met a nice young boy named Mohamed who told me, as we cleared the old sticks and brush from the garden, that in Africa they make huts from them and that he had a few other ideas to make things....I liked his attitude immediately and we cleared an area at the fence to store them.;)





Wednesday hut making wit Mohamed: We decided to meet at 3:45 this Wednesday to try to build something, I have bought twine! Any chance we can get the word out for other kids who might like to try this? Mohamed asked me if it was free, :) I said yes, I volunteer to over see the project (with help if many come?).

We also all agreed that the white painted odd form that is standing by the garden needs some kind of function... I suggested we paint it with Blackboard paint and attach a nice bag (Mrs. Garcia suggested we ask Mrs.Travis if she could whip one up for us ;) to keep our chalk inside. It could then be used for children's drawings, messages and announcements for the garden.

Wednesday chalkboard painting of the white odd thing: 3:45, people can either make a hut or paint a box.

Wishing Tree Project update: We made another wishing tree at Amanda's Garden and thought we should leave some materials out there for people passing by to add their wishes. Mrs. Garcia has offered to put out a small bin and I have materials to add. I also left lots of materials for teachers in marked zip-locked bags to continue to do the wishing tree project in their classes. Please let me know if this works, need more or if we should do another workshop?

Volunteers wanted: Lastly, Agnès and I will do a workshop on Thursday's  Brain Boost, it is supposed to be rainy with thunder and so we are doing a paper airplane folding session from a wonderful book I have that describes some really neat folds! I will print them out and the kids can make their favorite and decorate them if they want, for a sunny day hopefully to come!

Laura.