Busy weekend.

Our house and garden(s) were a flurry of activity this weekend. On Saturday morning, Scott met Harri at the community garden to get a compost delivery. The City of New York delivered 18 cubic yards of composted manure courtesy the Bronx Zoo. It's a giant mountain of dirt.




Later that day, the Council on the Arts and Humanities of Staten Island (COAHSI) sponsored a workshop on Carribean Herbalism at the garden. Harri talked about herbs and gardening and visitors helped in the garden. Our friend Tattfoo Tan is doing a conceptual art piece about gardening and food so he was there snapping photos and recording conversation also. We had a nice turnout. It was great to see so many people in the garden working. Neighbors came by and joined in. One neighbor even brought us water, then sodas, and later, bananas. Kids were hanging out of the windows watching. Even a couple of teenage boys asked if they could help out. Henry worked really hard in the garden and then he and his new friend, Gwen, conquered the giant dirt pile and pitched a homemade flag made out of a stick and a plastic home depot bag on the top. They ran up and rolled down the pile until they were covered head to toe in dirt.





On Sunday, we gardened at home a bit and then made a cool bean trellis out of bamboo and found embroidery hoops. Somehow I think this idea is going to expand in the yard over the next few weeks.