Create a big garden - PEM BB gardening.wood.biggarden

This is a badge bit (BB) that is part of the PEM curriculum.  Completing this BB is part of getting the wood badge in Gardening.

Now that you've advanced farther in your gardening skills, it's time to really grow a lot of food.  A well managed big garden can grow much of the fruit and veggies you eat in a year.  Let's expand an existing garden or create a new big garden!





Sheet mulch garden establishment video for a fresh site:


Minimum requirements:
  - At least 1200 square feet of new growing area
      - Paths and infrastructure don't count
  - Starting from lawn or untended ground (grass, weeds, etc)
  - Expanding an existing garden is fine
  - Rabbit and deer fencing
  - Can be:
      - Hugelkulture
      - Raised beds
            - No plastic or treated wood
      - Wide permanent beds in the ground (preferred)
      - Narrow rows
  - If soil or growing mix is added it needs to be organic or better
  - Mulch paths with heavy mulch that is organic or better (wood chips, straw, boards, etc)
  - Mulch beds with light mulch that is organic or better (chipped leaves, grass clippings, straw, etc)
  - Tilling is permitted this one time to establish a garden space
  - No hydroponics or aquaponics

Provide proof of the following as pictures or video (<2 min):
  - The area you're starting with
  - Garden halfway created
  - Show that any added growing mix, soil and mulches are organic or better
  - Garden complete with measurements of growing spaces
  - Deer and rabbit fence close ups