So Shane and I decided that we weren´t ready to leave La Hesperia and contacted Alexandra regarding a return trip. Upon hearing this she said that our project when we return would be to redo the vegetable garden as per our own suggestions when we left the first time.
This basically meant that we were going to tear up some weird fan shaped raised bed design that was extremely inefficient with space, difficult to care for, and unproductive, and convert the garden area to farm style rows... let the games begin!
What does this all mean, you might ask? Well, it means that we had to remove the wooden posts/walls of the raised beds, till the entire area, remove the grass and weeds that were inhabiting the area, rake the soil into raised rows, and plant some fooooood! That doesn´t sound so tough but let me say, when it´s all manual labour because things like rear-tine rototillers (spelling?) don´t exist here it´s a tough job, thankfully we had our fellow volunteers putting some serious sweat and elbow grease into it too (THANK YOU ALL!)
The result? It´s beautiful! Even though Shane and I ended up having to stay an extra week we were fortunate to have a wonderful man named Dave show up who is equally as passionate and hardworking and willing to take over the care of the garden for us while we´re gone... yay!
On top of the garden make-over, we were also given the responsibilities of creating a cow manure composter and a kitchen/greenwaste composter... easy peasy you say? Well let´s just say that these had to be large scale and low cost/ minimal material usual which resulted in us cutting each composter into two separate hillsides... it was actually quite a bit of fun and a bit of a bitch but they´re both mostly finished with the exception of their roofs (rooves?) which Dave had accepted responsibility for. Other than that we did some serious hiking which I will cover in mere moments in a separate post... imagine, no posts forever and then three in one day!
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