Workout party at Beacon Food Forest
On a gloomy Saturday here in Seattle, I pulled myself out of the bed and took a shared ride to a community work party at Beacon Hill. So I went to volunteer for Beacon Food Forest . I was happy finally reaching the destination and finding people around. So, yes this is my first - work party, gardening, community experience, non-Indian -- I was the only (actually 2 :P) Indian in a group of 100 (a real first). So yes thrilled to have come here. What did I do? Actively listened to basic dos and don'ts, 10 different team leaders and the projects they will lead us to. There was weeding, wall-building, workshop, medicinal plants etc. I chose the workshop. It was a environmental studies kind of classes out in garden. Studied many plants. Looked at an apple guild for the first time. A guild is a food forest with trees of different heights. eg: Apple at center, shrubs, strawberries etc. Then asked to identify and remove weeds from actually planted trees. Again some more listening alrea