3. Community Co-Op Veggie Garden
The objective of this garden is to utilize a fertile piece of land measuring roughly 54 feet by 50 feet to its
most productive ability to form lots of food for the local community.
4. Swale System
One Idea was to make sways back and forth from the middle of the garden
out.
When it rains the water would channel and have a longer time to soak into the
ground before running away possibly, such is in the swale
5. Get the best yield
There is a varieties of seeds
from donations we received
earlier this month. We need to
get a full list of what seeds we
have currently. We currently
have a bag full of Fava beans, as
well as Cowpea beans that fix
nitrogen. If we can develop a
growing list of what to plant
successively. This is different
than our original plan but I
believe we can make potentially
more food if we design areas so
that things can be spread out.
We need help designing this
garden. Figuring out yield
figures so we can determine
how many people we can have
in the coop.
6. Volunteers needed
We currently have 50 cubic
yards of compost to till into
the 50ft by 54ft section of
land. We will need to set a
date for the tilling to combine
resources and get enough
people to help us haul compost
and till with two tillers. One
tilling up the land in front, the
other tilling behind the
compost into recently up tilled
dirt. There is a local Horse
farm down the road that I’m
going to get a hold of to see
about donations of manure to
use on our bed as well.
7. Design help needed
We will need to work on a
irrigation system possibly drip
to get water from the club
house to the garden area
possibly laying a pvc pipe that
we can connect to a hose bib
for Rain barrels or irrigation
pump. We want to make sure
we follow water guidelines as
well. Please help me design
a great veggie plot that can
grow a high yield of food
successively throughout the
year. This can be a work in
progress that each growing
season gets better and better
as we tweak it to perfection.
8. Community Event
We will host a community showing
of;
the Power of Community:
How Cuba Survived Peak Oil
9. Join our Ning and share your thoughts!
www.codegreencommunity.org
