Trenching

This week on the farm we continued our assigned management jobs as  usual, but in particular 

have made great improvements to the progress of the  trench that the maintenance group has been, 

and currently is working on. The  purpose of this trench is to be able to run a pipeline, or hard line, 

from the  area of the garden nearest the compost to the back nearest the tennis courts.  

This will replace our simple hose system and give us something a little more  concrete and stable 

to use for a long period of time. During the construction of  this trench, the process by the 

maintenance workers (myself included) have been  using maddock's to break apart rocks and to 

loosen the soil. Then used a small  flat shovel to scoop out the loose soil and broken bits of rock. 

One of the  biggest challenges was working around a few obstacles in the way, one of which  

included a chicken coop. 

Speaking of which, we now have been approved to have  chickens in our garden! Being approved for 

chickens and bees, we have both of  the amenities set up to house the chickens and the bees, but 

are still waiting  on the live animals themselves.  
  
  (Pictured; J.D. Mancini, hard at work on the trench)    

--by Garrett A.