Projects

Description:

Full-blown teaching garden that we helped design and build alongside the Y's CEO Mary Jo Boone. The garden was a long-time dream of hers and we happened to be in the right place at the right time to help make it happen. This project is part of the 21st Century Community Learning Centers grant and allows us to teach close to 100 children per week in an after school program.

Features:

  • Raised bed herb and vegetable gardens
  • Row crop main garden
  • Perennial fruit and nut hedgerows
  • Water harvesting cistern
  • Water harvesting swales
  • Check dams
  • Kiwi and grape tunnels
  • Edible forest garden
  • Over 70 species of useful plants

Project Year:

2017

Location:

Bedford, VA

Size:

1 Acre

Climate:

Zone 7

Our Role:

Consulting, Design, Implementation, Education