We have all come together in downtown Asheville to live and work together. We have decided to experiment how to learn and live a Permaculture life in an urban setting. At this moment, there are four houses and one backyard. Five of us living at the
Ashevillage Institute;
Ben
Gwen
Tony
Kim
Valli (me)
Janell the Founding Director lives in one of the houses next door, Meka lives in the "Garottage" and the rest of our community involves the best supportive neighbors possible who are involved in this with us.
here goes.....
Meka is helping clean out the greenhouse and getting it ready for all our little baby plants.
Some students from Warren Wilson College came to AVI (Ashevillage Institute) for a couple of weekends and lent us alot of helping hands. They helped us build platforms for tents, mulch beds, and the back patio.
So our inventory of little babies include:
Butter Lettuce
Kale
Swiss Chard
Cabbage
Broccoli
Cilantro
Amaranth
Sweet Basil
Lavender
Parsley
Echinacea
Watermelon
Canteloupe
Italian Dandelion
Endive
Chamomile
Blueberries
Raspberries
Radishes
Ben, our master gardener, has made a seed mixture of clover, mustard greens, lettuce, kale, arugula, and chicory. The clover is a non-invasive perennial that will allow the edibles to grow, inject nitrogen into the starving soil, and also hold the remaining soil to the hillside. (see below)
Ben and Samson figuring out how and where to grow our food.
These are raised beds built up and bordered with urbanite (scavenged and broken concrete), stone, bottles, and various repurposed items mixed in. To get the beds ready we have hauled in numerous things to go along with our composting. So far we have found people who were willing to give us lots of horse poop, woodchips, tons of leaf mulch, and some hot hot compost mixture of zoo poop and straw.
Thank you, Brother Hug, Mountain Hopes, and WNC Nature Center!
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