Tuesday, May 19, 2009

Sheet Mulching Playshop and Monique's Dirty 30!

Amy checking out the Permaculture technique of sheet mulching

Before sheet mulching, we cleared the weeds and rocks out. The idea is to not do work or disturb soil, so we technically could of slapped everything on top. This is useful for creating beds over lawns or even parking lots!


After the food scraps and a good smattering of aged horse manure, we hosed 'er down really well. Then we layered and overlapped cardboard and wetted it again.

Judy's awesome. She can make a toothpick grow and she does laundry!

Farmer Tom layin straw down with Rocco. Judy Fasani dropped a huge bale and cardboard off for use! We use straw, the byproduct, not hay which is full of seeds.

Nice 6-inch straw layer is down. looking good!

Sheet mulching in the fall is desirable and then soil is not needed. Here we add some of Carin's finished compost and topsoil

All ready to plant and celebrate
HomeGrown Truckee ladies done playing
Limes and mint go well together, kind of like Mojitos?


Monique celebrating with chocolate of course!

As a group we did like 160 pull-ups. I think Scott did 50 :)

Party People

Eric's Seven-Layer Ben & Jerry's Creation. Are you serious?

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