Wednesday, February 8, 2012

Getting running...

We've got a lot of work ahead of us to get the center up and running again.  So far we have about 100 plants ready to go in the ground, a few plans for renovations to the building and yard, and now we're reaching out to everyone in the neighborhood for our first community clean up day on Saturday Feb. 11th!
Today I picked up some floorboards from my contractor friend Taidgh over in West Adams to replace the rotten floorboards in the casita.  Once we have the leaky roof repaired then it's time to start replacing drywall and flooring inside the building.  We're hoping that some local businesses and contractors will aid our search for spare drywall and roofing materials.
We've been working with David of EVO farm in Mar Vista to gain some of his extensive knowledge in aquaponics, a system of farming fish and vegetables symbiotically; the plants feed off the fish waste and the fish feed off the plant waste.