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my summer internship with the local ydc and ttroubled youth

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Yesterday I posted pics of an herb spiral I creatted and today I wanted to post a horse trough ( how's it spelled?) Bed I'm working on. I'm have three projects I'm working on this summer as an intern. The lacal youth detention center, department of corrections, and a local church. I going to be teaching youtth about basic gardening skill all the while I want to teach as much permiculture as I know. For tthe record I think our criminal justice system is fucked but if I can encourage just one or two youth to pursue small scale permiculture practises I feel it will be a summer well spent. So with out any further blab here's a few pick of the bed I'm working on. I lied more blab real quick I have also encouraged planting more perinials maybe one day the detention center one day can have aspect of a food forest.

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My Signature for the last few years was "just spinning wheels," but after our PDC at Pauls Place this summer I feel like we are finally catching traction. Hope to be threading some more. got a roof on our house, swales dug, and finally starting to work on our plan in more details.

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Layed a bit more rocks, layer of rotting wood I found on site (ask and you shall receive), layer of wheat straw with bone meal mixed in ( I didn't have a high nitrogen source but if you reapeat this bed it would be good idea to mix in blood meal or a good nitrogen source), a layer of newspaper (don't be mad Paul), and two inches of compost but we are getting another load of locally sourced compost to add four more inches.

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Layer of sttraw

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so fail on the rest of my picks for the horse trough bed.

but more project updates to come.

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Once again sorry on the pics not posting but heere are a few pics from the church. I had a team of 6 to 12 yr old girls waiting in line to be the next peerson to use the hammer while the othe kids played kick ball. It was nice to work with people with enthusiasm ( I need a phone with spell check). We were builing bed with salvage lumber from the site.

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Brandon, it looks like you've been a real inspiration...lots of smiling faces. great work!

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