So on the way back from Portland, Oregon for a quick weekend trip, Eric Blauer, Daniel & I started talking about getting involved with a community garden. We threw out ideas and Eric was feeling us out to see how interested we'd be in delving into something like that. I love to garden and work with landscape design and while I am certainly not at a professional skill level, I was happy to get my hands in it.
A little background information. Daniel & I own the house behind the church as a rental property. The property was originally purchased because we had initially intended the church building to be used as a coffee house. Through a serious of very frustrating governmental issues, we couldn't open because we didn't have sufficient parking. We thought the lot of this little house behind what is now our church could act as the parking lot but then, after we had purchased the house of course, found out the city had vacated the easement next to the building so we no longer had sufficient access for a public parking area. Long story short, Jacob's Well later leased the building and the little house just continued to be a rental with a really big back yard.
When we started talking about the gardening project, we had the idea of taking some of the back yard of the rental and putting in a garden directly behind the church. The tenant of the loved the idea because then she had much less yard to mow and it was a very functional location so that people from the church could help plant, weed, water, etc.
So that is how it started ... our idea around the 1st of March. The next few months will unfold how our plans have worked out.
A little background information. Daniel & I own the house behind the church as a rental property. The property was originally purchased because we had initially intended the church building to be used as a coffee house. Through a serious of very frustrating governmental issues, we couldn't open because we didn't have sufficient parking. We thought the lot of this little house behind what is now our church could act as the parking lot but then, after we had purchased the house of course, found out the city had vacated the easement next to the building so we no longer had sufficient access for a public parking area. Long story short, Jacob's Well later leased the building and the little house just continued to be a rental with a really big back yard.
When we started talking about the gardening project, we had the idea of taking some of the back yard of the rental and putting in a garden directly behind the church. The tenant of the loved the idea because then she had much less yard to mow and it was a very functional location so that people from the church could help plant, weed, water, etc.
So that is how it started ... our idea around the 1st of March. The next few months will unfold how our plans have worked out.
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