Gaia Grrrls of Binghampton

So that is pretty funny, that I just found out that there are Gaia Grrrls elsewhere in the world as well! The Gaia Grrrls - a feminist art ad hoc collective - are on facebook are dedicated to REFUSING toxic gas drilling through Art Activism and had a recent show at SUNY. How cool! Bless the Gaia Grrrls of Binghampton, all angels of consciousness and earth love with them! Come to Akron, Gaia Grrrls, fresh veggies guaranteed!

Inspection...

...of the community garden, stuff grows and grows, also Lynn's squashes, very exciting...

...in comparison we have here the garden of the mastress (who planted her stuff in time with knowledgeable hands, which we will be doing next year as well ;)

We say: Bred and Ne's...

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Under the loving touch of Lynn and Renee...

...the Gaia Garden is doing well! Thanks so much for the daily care in the name of all gorgeous Gaia Grrrls!

Hoses and G's birthday

I got two new hoses (two-for-one) at HD that would reach across the street to the Gaia Grrrls Garden. After three waterings and lots of traffic, the hose is already beginning to deteriorate...so much for cheap hoses. Walking the watering cans over to the garden may be the more viable option, plus I can water more deeply and intimately that way. We've got little, green tomatoes and new additions of hot peppers and, so far, a squash that Lynn planted by seed. Another hot and muggy day! Gotta check the garden before taking up our Gaia sister, Nancy G's, invite to her pool. Happy 45th Birthday, G!

First visitors

As we are planting tomatoes, a neighbor softly introduces herself ...

and helps us with the work.

The fourth tomatoplant, second row, from the back-end is now named Sierra, after our first visitor

Later also her brother checks out the Gaia Girls Garden, and Lynn plays her charme with the mum of the kids ;)

The tomato-troupe gets active

The soft earth is so fun...

...thanks to Lynn who organized the rototiller!

After hard work & pool...

...here a first draft of the Gaia Grrls Garden in its urban environment :)

Friends with Pools

Our first day was HOT! After a full day at my "retail on concrete" job, my "dogs" were killing me, but to see my three Gaia sisters hard at work breaking ground in the empty lot across the street inspired my to throw on some shorts and a tank top and disassociate my pain. Thank goodness Nanny G had to run errands, for she came back with great news that our dear friend, Lou, did not mind if we came over, sweaty and filthy, to jump in her pool! Nothing like cool water and a raft for sore feet!

Many donated tomato plants and peppers on the back porch steps await a new home. Gotta get 'em in Grrrls! They are already setting blossoms. I got over anxious about this fact yesterday after work and started double-digging until Lynn assured me that a guy said he'd bring his rototiller Monday. In the meantime, I've got my eye on some broken-bag, mark-down pallets of soil amendments at Home Depot.

A first testpost