…the name for ‘the old Transylvanian tradition of the whole village getting together to do a job, usually building a house but can be other things as well’ which I learned from a landscape architect friend here in Budapest, perfectly describes the collective frenzied focused gardening activity on day 1 of 2 planting Edible Estates #12, that had us moving, digging, raking, shoveling, sprinkling, mounding, edging, and building morning til night in the company of friends, family, and neighborhood gardeners (plus the mothers of the Szende-Lenard’s, who were in the kitchen most of the day preparing a huge pot of something very meaty – but also making me a special vegan Hungarian divine mushroom dish – before finishing the day by raking each of the new planting beds perfectly smooth) – going from scrappy weedy messy sandy chaos, to curvy and ovaly slightly raised planting beds (enclosed by beautiful terra cotta roof tiles that the Szende-Lenard’s had piled up in the yard) where tomorrow we will get plants, seeds, trees, and bushes in the ground, then topped with some crazy beautiful mushroom mulch, another local specialty.