Beautiful Day

This morning's weather was beautiful and held up nicely for our groundbreaking ceremony.  We had many people show up: Bud Crist (President of Merrillville's Stormwater Utility), Derek Frazier (Food Procurement Manager with the Food Bank of NWI), Chuck Gleason (Project Manager with GrowNWI), Jon Hendricks (Photographer with NWI Times) and members of Avicenna Academy's board of directors.

Here are some pictures from today...

Part of the "community" in our garden...

 

One of our students collecting a sample from the core sampler.

Doug Molchan sharing the garden plan.

Students enjoying some refreshments after the groundbreaking ceremony.

A picture of the soil in the core sampler.  

We have a rich top layer (approximately 6") followed by a layer mixed with clay.