2014 Community Garden Takes Shape

Thanks to NC Mountain Realty the High Vista Community Garden Has a Home

Harry Moody Works His Magic

And the 2014 Garden Takes Shape

Pete marks the walkways

After a year without a home, the High Vista Community Garden returns in 2014, right outside our front gate. Thank you, NC Mountain Realty Group for being a good neighbor interested in growing community and sustainability.

You can see in these photos that the land we've been loaned for this year is not perfectly level, there is one shade tree, and a main road is in shouting distance. Gardening here will be a different experience from the idyllic setting of our last garden. Still, the 2014 group represents fifteen families and we expect to grow, learn, and have fun—just as we always have.

The plowed parcel needs to sit about two weeks, to give the grass clumps time to decompose. Our water source remains uncertain, but Jim Goodnight and Pete Steurer are working hard to determine if the old pump house nearby can be brought back to life within that time. If not, we will use a hose to fill two water barrels with NCMR's water when needed.

Next steps: spreading lime, marking the crop areas, building mounds for the squash, erecting bean structures, buying plants, planting, watering, weeding, watching for insects and varmints, and enjoying the fruit of our labor. You know what I always say, "Give Peas a Chance!"