GARDEN ACCOMPLISHED

Am very excited (albeit exhausted)! The UCLA sustainable garden has officially been ESTABLISHED. Earth day (today) 2006. It was fun too! After some initial snafu's about where we were actually going to put it ---ie: boundary lines and etc.--- we got the go ahead, and removed the sod, put up the fencing, painted two signs, and started the compost heap! I even added some ashes and lots of orange rinds and leaves (from the branches we used to make the fence posts and stuff). We made the sides out of piled sod, and a few cinder blocks for ventilation. I'd better find a tarp within the next few weeks to keep it moist in there...

Overall, it looks really impressive--within the next week or two, we'll actually build the beds and put them in. Oh, and find dirt to fill them with. But it's pretty neat---we moved all the logs around the fence, so people can still sit on them and stuff. It's actually really going to look quite nice when it's all finished and done!

Hopefully all the people who came will post pictures of the garden--someone was mad taking pictures the entire time we were there. Very awesome, maybe we'll get some more daily bruin exposure. Or even some facebook exposure!

I'm just massively excited, because I remember just having the IDEA of the garden, like a DREAM. And now it actually exists, has been made and is developing. I almost want to scream and jump up and down, "WE DID IT! WE DID IT!" And SO many people showed up to help--at least 20, not counting the core 9 or so for E3 and the garden project group. AND, we planted three trees (free~!) two avocados and one orange. More to come in the weeks ahead.

The only downside to the whole wonderful, dirty morning, is I think my face is slightly sunburned, despite my sunblock and hat. Eh.

Nice weather for garden building though--sun, and then clouds, sun, and then more clouds. It got kind of cold around three, so we all started leaving then. Still, good times, bob marley music, dancing, soccer, and eating all ocurred. Sweet!

It's been wonderful. Getting dirty for a good cause like that is just so...refreshing. You know? I like feeling the grass and dirt under my feet, and building a legacy to leave to the campus of UCLA for all the years after is just wonderful. Freaking fantastic!

And the day's not even done...