Edible Estate #15, day one

…installation with the hands of over 50 volunteers gets us farther along than I had hoped, finishing the day with most of the lawn rolled up and piled in mounds covered with fresh compost, vegetable beds bermed up to the back of a log circle, a U-shaped woodland path under the existing crab apple, a low rain garden near the house excavated with great effort by the Walker Art Center curator, a 12′ diameter log circle opening on to the massive wood oven just finished days before, an elevated terrace with retaining wall and gravel surface for a harvest table, all held together by the remains of a local fallen willow chopped up to create the bones, edging, seating, and retaining for the now fully inscribed garden plan – ready for it’s planting tomorrow. (EE #15 webpage)