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We've had a beautiful summer here in my part of England (West Yorkshire). I've enjoyed getting out and about, mainly within about 20 miles of Saltaire where I live. As a deaf introvert (!) it's no real hardship to venture out alone and it seems to work for me to plan 'days out' with just my camera as a companion. I don't have a car so I use public transport and in many ways that is all part of the adventure, planning interesting visits that 'work'. There are advantages to not having a car, one being that you don't necessarily have to do a circular tour back to where you started. The end result of these expeditions, inevitably, is lots of photos. I can only use a small proportion on my main 'Saltaire Daily Photo' blog. Although I also have a Flickr account, that functions just as an album really. So I am going to try a few posts on this blog that are mainly sets of images, perhaps a few words too. Most, but not all, in the sets of images will have been taken on the same day. We'll see how it goes...

Organic Fall Garden Frenzy

RECIPE:

• donkey poop
• trampled top soil
• hay
• sawdust/wood chips

I know. It's not that exciting looking, it's just dirt and some garden beds that are so naturalized that they hardly look like garden beds. I made them to blend in with the surrounding forest on purpose. :)
But the thing is, it's not just dirt, it's not just garden beds for me- it's the food producing project I have been working my ass off (mine for realz, not the donkey) on for months now and the last few weeks have been a non stop, steady race to get a some beds ready for a fall garden.

I started building raised bed gardens along the donkey & chicken fence - since JuJu the donkee has taken no interest in the leaves or fruit of squash plants, she doesnt even like kale all that much, I figured this was a great place to expand. I started by shoveling off rich black top soil trampled and churned in front the barn, mixing that with unwanted hay, and piles of donkey dookie to make a SUPER fertile place to throw & grow some seeds.

To keep the dirt from falling backwards out the fence holes, I lined up pieces of scrap wood left over from building the mini barn (see pic below at bottom of fence.)

I am not all about making this look eco chic & fancy, I AM all about making this free, simple, eco friendly - by using left over materials and things already available, by not driving out and guzzling gas to buy products that guzzled gas to get to the store.

In fact the whole point of my garden is to feed me, in all seasons, in all financial states - I want to be free as possible from the albatross of vehicles, groceries, and money $$$$$$!!!

This here is how I am trying to be free...........

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SEEDS I PLANTED:

• spinach
• radishes (red and white)
• rutabaga
• 3 types of kale (dinosaur, red russian, siberian)
• lettuce
• carrots (red, yellow and orange)
• beets
• broccoli raab
• peas

Xoxoxo