More than a garden....

Yesterday, we spent four hours on the farm. We weren't planting trees, we were planting a garden. Our hopes were to get one started last year, but we ran out of time. This year we were on top of things and even threw in a little community with the garden.

(The area where vegetables and fruit will soon grow...aka...the garden)

Instead of having a huge garden for four people, we have a huge garden for eight people. We have a small co-op going on here, except you don't have to pay a months salary and you get to build a community with other people.

Our deal is this: pitch in what you can for the seeds, work a couple of hours a week tending the garden, come and get what you want when it's ready.

Not only did we plant seeds, we planted the beginnings of a really great community. We laughed together and made jokes. We took turns doing jobs that were hard or tedious. We took pictures. We ate twizzlers. And at the end of the night, we grilled out and had dinner together. Now that's what I call a bonding experience!

We planted 7 1/2 rows of potatoes, a few rows of onions, some cucumbers, squash, carrots, corn, lettuce, beets and leeks. Time flys with seven people! We'll wait two weeks, meet back at the farm and start planting the next round of seeds. I think I'm going to enjoy gardening this year!

Here are Andre, Patrick, Carol, Al and Phil hard at work. We tag-teamed the potato planting!

Dirty Hands make for much more fun while planting. My hands and Allyson's.
Al and I working and talking and laughing... (Andre took this pic)
Patrick and I planting onions together....(Andre took this pic)

Al and I planting onions...(Andre took this pic)Patrick and Phil working the seed planting thing that looked very similar to an exercise contraption of sorts. Hum.