Woke up bright and early to have breakfast at 8, then played some billards with good ol' Amanda. Come 10:00, we were up and ready to do some dirty, dirty work. And that we did.
today's setting was at this abandoned baseball field that the city was going to get rid of, but instead the Project decided to take care of it. They have renovated it into a lush(ish) garden of various greens and flowers. We plant garlic, beets, chard, beans, peppers, okra, sunflowers, melons, and some others I can't think of at the moment. Today there was a lot of cultivating and re-soiling with compost. The problem with this infield is that when they build a baseball field, they build it with a ton of clay under the ground...something to do with the ball's bounce? I don't remember. BUT, the clay does nothing at all for our crops, so we build this interesting, yet complicated trench. Basicaly, we build a deep trench, fill it with some water and branches and stuff like that, then fill it to make a mound of dirt. Then we build holes for the seeds/plants and fill that hole with fresh compost. Over time, the plants will deal with the clay. It is much more environmentally friendly than bringing in huge machinery to dig up the field.
So we did that for the majority of the day, and I really enjoyed it.
We have these community volunteers that come down and help out with gardening the field. There was this one guy in particular that caught my attention.... He had asked "did you see the alligator?" Trying to see if we heard him correctly, we looked at each other awkwardly and he then explained that there was an alligator loose in the area. Not from the Zoo. Someone's pet? I'm not sure if the heat was getting to him, but it sure was an odd story. And...thats all he talked about for the remainder of the time. We saw a deer and his comment was "....must be running after the alligator". It certainly brought some entertainment to the field.
Tomorrow will be a nice change of day and only 9-5 (compared to 1o-7).
Until then, I'm out!
P.S. I miss seeing all my AmeriCorps people every day!
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