Focus on the good... of which there is plenty

Doro's advice to me... so I will only mention (and not bemoan about) how our plan to get some heirloom tomato seedlings fell through.

Over the last week or so, we were fortunate to get some support from two farms offering food shares to the city -- Nichol's Farm and Angelic Organics. Both were extremely generous in helping us obtain more seedlings to supplement what we already had (special thanks to Chris and Todd). Our garden by Wendell Phillips H.S. is looking more and more like a food plot! We've got most of Todd's seedlings in the ground, and we still have several flats left of the orphan seedlings donated by Chris's workplace to put outside.

Here are some pics from last week Friday, the day that I tried to finish the last changes to the rain catchment to make it FINALLY functional:

And some more from yesterday (Saturday): (NOTE: these look nicer since it was brighter outside, plus the guest photo shooter probably had a better lens in his phone/camera, and it looks like he added some fun effects, too)

You may be asking, who are all these young-uns? Well, our club might have its first elementary school members ever; these young people volunteered to help out on both days, and were extremely polite, generous and well-listening helpers. They live and go to school steps away from the garden, sure, but to openly offer help and companionship for several hours at a time... and for days in a row? They even brought us all out some pink lemonade after we had been working for a couple of hours on Saturday... how swell was that?

Not captured in the photos were the two adult helpers that joined us -- special thanks to Ms. Smith from down the street and Alexei, my friend who took a break from his med school studies to move some dirt around!

Although things did get accomplished (mostly, the compost has AT LONG LAST all been spread), I was disappointed that we couldn't get into my school. There are many more seedlings to set out, and I have much earth-turning still to do with the newly fixed rototiller. Alas, I will limit my recounting of disappointment to two sentences, and two sentences only!

Until next time, ya'll  =)

P.S. -- we hope to be getting back our student blog poster, Ms. Coleman, soon... so look for her postings in the coming weeks!