Sunday, April 5, 2009

April 09- Zome Production

The Algarden Greenhouse Zome Production Day


Ready to work!



All the pieces that we assembled at the shop


Painting the outside pieces


Building the trex  ring base



Ahmed pounding the re bar


Mike drilling the base together


Rob and Giancarlo


Carli and David painting away


Annelise and Anthony helping with the paint



The plastic was cut to match the frames- Dan got blister from all his precise exacto knife cuttings


The plastic was then stapled to the frame



Alex was Mr. task master and made sure all the staples were properly placed 


Once the plastic is set then we matched the frames with the back frame


Ahmed was on quality control 


There was chilling down time too



Royal getting his first farming experience



P power


Paul showing his support


Jenn and Brian were there helping even with a broken leg


Annelise documented the entire process


Amph and Taca


Carli and David





Once all the pieces were ready, Rob began attaching them


Each piece has an HDPE strip that connects it to the other






Slidind the pieces together was very easy




Anthony and Rob starting to attach the bottom pieces to the base ring


Looking good


And that was it for that day. It was getting late and we were all tired from a long day of work- till next weekend.

Friday, March 6, 2009

March 2009 - Social Monarch Buterfly


We were blessed with a beautiful monarch butterfly that made our garden her home during migration. 



Also my mother and brother came to visit and help out in the garden





It was great to have them there and experience the space















Even though it was late in the winter our garden was full of veggies






We built a swale to prevent the low part of the garden from getting flooded 





The key hole planter got planted





The potato patch came up



Onions!










We harvested a bunch of veggies to make a special birthday dinner





mmmhhhh





I love being able to share the garden with my friends in many ways and show them my appreciation by cooking them healthy meals





Even though they make fun of me for becoming SO Berkeley- They are right.
 I better move, SOON









Everybody loved it










I'm extremely fortunate with a great group of friends





It was a great birthday, thanks to all my beautiful friends and family.