Just Pickin Greens

And Then The Weeds Came Down In Flames!

Well New Year’s Eve not only broughta new year but new friends and connections. I met a guy named Stan and his partner David at a big party around teh corner from my house. It was an older corwd but i was really stoked to meet people there and do some networking. Stan and David have been maintaining the lots across the street from our house for the past 2 summers. They have made it into a beautiful park and done a bang up job. I went and helped them last weekend and we talked a lot about future plans and past experiences…we shared some good stories and Stan ended up offering me work wiith him helping him with the house he bought and is currently rehabing. I’ve been doing some demolition work, sanding old wooden fixtures and recently been hanging a shitload of drywall on the ceilings. I’ve been learning a lot and I’m really stoked to have a job wit hsome cash flow. Plus he is a good guy and hopefully a friend and ally for years to come.

Aside from the work and the park he is really into what Elissa and I want to do. We decided to work on the lots next to our house, the ones that have the van and all the overgrown weeds, this past saturday. So we all went out there and my friend Corrie came over and we kicked major ass. David and his friend Anthony moved the van…number 1 on our list can now be checked off!!!

Here are the first pictures from the soon to be Emerald Street Farm(or maybe something differet we haven’t decided yet on the name)

Before:

After:

Here is Corrie kickin ass

We found our first heroine Needle and had a small celebration…YAY!!! oh man we then found 4 more consecutively!

So in oregon the way we got rid of weeds was burning them…here in East Kensington Philadelphia we thought we’d do the same thing!!!

But then the fire department came and ruined all our fun!!!

The end result was pretty inspiring and exciting! THIS FARM IS GONNA HAPPEN!!!!

It may not look beautiful yet but it is a blank canvas that we are going to turn into the paradise of lush green polants and tons of food to satisfy many hungry tummies!!

Next task at hand…talk to neighbors and get petition signed so we can go to our city council woman and get permission to do what we want, Flyer for vollunteers, have a community meeting talking about what we plan on doing, giving donations and our possible informal very inexpensive CSA to cover initial costs like seeds and tools…

Its a lot of work but if all this happened in one day with 5 of us…think about what can happen in two months with that many or more!!!!!!!

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