Get Dirty: The Pope Horticulture Blog: Raised Bed Work Day EXTREME

RAISED BED WORK DAY X-TREME

First off, I must apologize for the lateness of this post, for those of you in school are aware that the last few weeks before spring break are always quite hectic, and by hectic, I mean utterly insane. Papers to start and finish, test to study for, phew. No time to breath. But alas, I needed to procrastinate from my literature essay, and this is a wonderful excuse. So here we go. The previous Saturday marked my Raised Bed Workshop, but, as I tell myself the reason was easter weekend, only four showed up. But thats okay. I love the four. And, jeeze, they must love me, or love super hard work or sweating or free pizza. Because I have never seen a group of young people work so hard with so much effort for nothing in return. Seriously. It was hot. The dirt was hard. I was commanding. They pressed on with full smiles. Readers, fellow students, friends, Horticulture Club officially has the hardest, most fun, most dedicated members in all the nebulas, and I am so very lucky to be able to call them my friends. But so on. In total, starting around noon, we weeded, raked, tilled, composted, we dug trenches, we cut boards, we built beds, we got blisters, we got dirty, we had fun. Around five, we had completed two HUGE raised beds, and in the process, built some mean muscles and burned some fat, that we probably replaced with loads of pizza towards the end of the day. All in all, it was exusatingly wonderous. I hope everyone has a safe, awesome, stress-reliveing, spring holiday, and I hope to see you all the thursday we get back! We'll really be ramping up our meetings, for it is spring, and spring means growing! Service projects, seed-bombs, planting, all the good stuff is ahead! Tell your friends! And once more, a million thankyous to Teri, Hannah, Andrew, and Andrea for being the hardest working bunch of buds in the backyard! Namaste!

(Check the pictures below!)