Last Garden Clean-Up of the Year!

As part of the garden rules, at least one member of a community plot must attend one clean up per quarter. This being the last quarter of the year, with no clean up scheduled for December, it was the last opportunity for people who hadn't showed up to prior month's clean ups. It's usually held on the 3rd Saturday of the month... and if you don't attend these required clean ups, your plot can be subject to revocation.

Sooo... I woke up early this past Saturday morning at 7am & picked up my friend Ktina who lives down the street. She's been a member of the garden for over a year and is actually the person who introduced me to this one. We showed up a few minutes early, and only two others were there so far. Only 10 out of the 29 members or representatives for plots ended up showing... It turned out to be all women except showed up, except for one guy who manages all the projects for our clean ups.

As soon as we got there we got to working, organizing what needed to be done. The tasks for the day included cleaning out the area under the banyan tree at the top of the garden, so that we could have a nice picnic area set up with tables. There was a large amount of rubbish, metal wire, scrap wood that needed to be cleared out from around the tree and brought down to the front for trash. There was also at least 10 garbage bags filled with grass clippings that needed to be moved to our 3 section composte area that was recently constructed. We raked leaves from under the tree and organized and bagged recycling items (cans, glass & plastic). The garden community brings in recyclables to be stored for a short time before we do recycling runs (at least once a month). The funds from recycling go into our community account, which pays for incidental supplies we need. Such as hoses and gardening tools. SO we had fun organizing it all and loading it into one of the members trucks to be taken in for recycling.

All in all it was a very productive day... Definitely a lot of hard work, but we handled it well & I'm proud of what we accomplished in just a little over an hour!! We worked together as a team and were pretty darn efficient!! :)