La Ancla ••• Ventura, California

somewhere between madmax and ecotopia is la ancla, an urban sustainability project in ventura, california's la avenida neighborhood. we have a 1/5 acre of land five minutes from the ocean, 3 cottages and an intense passion for laughter, nature, and living in harmony with each other and the earth. we believe it is possible to live well in a beautiful place with a small ecological footprint while not isolating ourselves from economic and cultural resources of the city.

Sunday, February 21, 2010

community organizizing

The beds in the front are coming together which means Smokey Joe doesn't get to play ball out there any more. Once Papa and I (and the new WWOOFers) did the double dig and added some compost, they started looking more like burial plots than vegetable beds. So T and T are going to use some of the extra flagstone to make head stones for each bed. (Can you tell some of us are obsessed with Dexter?) Like Little T said, "the more food we plant, the creepier we can be."

Since Superbowl Sunday, we've gotten all the stone up and planted about 75% -- carrots, squash, red peppers, spinach, kale, melons, lettuce, broccoli, onions, cucumbers, beets, and cilantro are all in. A bunch of other seeds are germinating in the window, too. Oh, and the fruit trees and strawberries are on the side.

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