Thank You, Mavis

It has been an exhausting few days for me. I went from a semi retired writer two weeks ago to a chef opening a new restauraunt and trying to gt this community project started. That coupled with my mom being in the hospital, family responsibilities, and my own malady and well I was about to throw in the towel.

But, thanks to our new friend Mavis and husband Cary, we have a great new home for Ruby( our first pig) She has been really great and accomodating. Taking time to greet us and graciously offering us her place for our project...well, she is the cream of the crop in my book. I cannot thank her enough.

I had a really successful dumpster dive. Thanks to David and Regina for letting me into the construction dumpster for their new house which is being built. I aquired alot of really good lumber for many possible uses in our village. I have enough to make nest boxes, planting boxes, raised beds,etc... all on behalf of the wastefulness of traditional builders. I am both thankful for the find and disgusted by the amount of waste that goes on. But We will surely put it to good use.

Thanks also for those of you that have brought things for the yard sale. Hopefully we will get some more stuff comming in. All proceeds will go to the first garden to go into Wakulla Gardens.

Thanks to everyone who expressed interest and offered great suggestions and information. We are just starting this and hopefully by next spring we will be putting in several gardens around the county.

Please continue to spread the word and check out the website for things that could be good donations. You would be surprised what we might find useful. My next goal is to get some coastal and Jacob's sheep, so fencing materials would be very useful right now, but garden tools, a wheel barrow, heirloom seeds, compostable materials... the list goes on. You may have odds and ends laying around that could be of great help.

We are also interested in a few more people who may want to plant a plot in the first garden. Right now we only have a few so if you would like to grow some vegetables and live in or near Wakulla gardens, jump aboard. We would like to start planting soon. This weekend or next