Grange Garden goes to School

We had our first day of school at the Grange. We talked about the history of agriculture. We explored the site for the up and coming community garden. At first it looked kind of boring but with a closer look we noticed a dense cover crop of crimson clover. We found some beautiful clumps of moss and a cool fungus under the madrone tree next to the parking area by the entrance.
Alas most of the weeds were grasses that looked suspicoiusly like those nasty grasses with the creeping runners. We didn't bother to find out because we forgot to bring shovels with us. Actually most of us were not dressed for the wet and cold, so they lack of shovels was no big deal. Maybe next week we will show up with tools and pratical clothes.
Don't get any notions that we were a bunch of slackers. We figured out how much fencing and how many fence posts we needed. We also figured out the where the posts would go for the gates and how we would keep the corners from collapsing. We decide to do each corner in a different way, just in case. Figuring the lenght of fencing was easy and went quickly. We came up with several different numbers of fence posts. We never could agree on an exact number. In the end we decided to vote on it - we chose the higher number to be on the safe side.
Next week we plan to start putting the fence up if we can get everything we need to the Grange by next monday. We might do some sod busting too. There's this place in the middle where there was an obstacle that Rick Erickson had to avoid with his tractor. He left a circle of sod with a cairn of stones to mark the spot not to hit with his tractor. It was the nicest thing in the garden. A sculpture in the middle of the garden.
We decided we liked the idea of a circle with a sculpture in the middle of the garden. We also talked about decorating the the top of the fence with streamers. We never decided whether to imitate the tibeten-prayer-flag model with cotton that will fade over time or to go with brightly colored and more durable synthetic streamers. A small but vocal contingent favored the highly reflective materials much to the dismay of the adults who were present - Julie Marston and John Barr.

It seems like the latest plan is that Sebastian will be the head honcho of the garden for this summer. He already has experience with another community garden project. He has already shown his worth - he helped us figure out that too many fence posts were a good idea - we can use them on for bean trellises. We would of just got too many posts in the first place (hey we're no fools) but I'm such a cheap skate? stake? snake? that I insisted that we not get too many. Sure we could take them back but I'm too lazy - we're talking real world math and carefull planning.
We are off to an awesome start.