Make a map - PEP BB community.sand.map

Here's a map of my immediate neighborhood, showing vegetable gardens, fruit trees (one stands for many, usually), chickens, and blackberry patches. There are more that I don't have first hand knowledge of in various backyards I'm sure!

Houses where we know the neighbors are marked with initials. The house with the heart is  ours.

Everything is fenced against deer and bears (not that a simple fence will stop them. The neighbor up the road with chickens finally installed an electric fence this spring).

I think this is a map too: the ground plan of my garden. I make copies (not photocopies) when needed. Here you can see the first map (on millimeter paper), the garden plan with annual and perennial plants for this year, as I thought it would be (in February) and between them one with only all perennial plants and bushes.


Because I live on the ground floor and there's a 'gallerij' ( an open corridor) above my back yard for the upper neighbours, I was able to make these photos 'from the air'. The garden is too wide to fit in one photo, so here are two.

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So you can compare the photos with the drawings. Or maybe you have questions ... Then please ask and I'll answer.  

Edit: I added some photos made today on ground level. I hope then I can qualify for the BB.

The willows (wilgen) and 'trapje op en neer' (stairs up and down)


Rubarb (rabarber)  and blackberries (bramen) next to 'trapje op en neer'


Sunchokes (aardperen) near the back door. They are mixed with another invasive but gorgeous plant


Compost heap
View through the middle of the garden, with the perennial kale (eeuwig moes), the plants in pots and the entrance gate.

Hi Inge! Nice work!

Looks like you have at least a dozen 'sites' indicated.

Can you mark, indicate, or explain at least three places on the map that are also in your photos?

Thanks!

Ashley Cottonwood wrote:Hi Inge! Nice work!

Looks like you have at least a dozen 'sites' indicated.

Can you mark, indicate, or explain at least three places on the map that are also in your photos?

Thanks!

Hi Ashley. That's my mistake: I didn't think of most parts of my garden as 'places'.
I did mark some 'places'. In photo 1 from above you see the willows (it's almost all you see). In the map I named them 'wilgen' (Dutch for willows). At the left side.
In the first drawing there's 'trapje op en neer'  (stairs up and down) a little above the willows. You can't see it in the photo because of all those willow branches. If you like you can see it in a photo I posted for the BB 'brush pile'. Also the brush pile is invisible in the photo from above.
In photo 2 you can see some thin blue straight lines, going diagonally over the garden. That's the laundry line. In the middle drawing you can see it, named 'waslijn'.  
In the right hand back corner you can see the compost heap. It's named 'compost' in the middle drawing. (It's named 'aardappels' in the February drawing, because I planted potatoes there, they are already harvested and the compost heap returned back to that spot).
There is a 'place' for pots (for potted plants) named 'plek for potten' (spot for pots) in the first drawing. But those pots aren't visible in the photo. Other potted plants are, but they are temporary, don't have a fixed spot.

More. In the middle of the garden (at the under side of the middle plant bed in the drawings) there's a large perennial kale. Named 'eeuwig moes' in Dutch. You can see it in both photos from above. So you know how the photos fit together as one plan.

Although I did get the BB for the map of my garden, I decided to make a better map for this PEP. It is about Community, so I made a map of my neighbourhood and indicated the places which have importance for me. And then made photos of those places.


I made this map of Haveltermade, a neighbourhood of the town Meppel (Drenthe, eastern part of the Netherlands). I used Google Maps and MapsMe, first made a drawing in pencil on graph paper, then made squares a little bit larger on a piece of paper. This drawing I first made in pencil, then inkted (fineliners) and then coloured with colour pencils.


This is 'Eetbaar Noorderpark', a food forest project we started (2 years ago) with the same group as Permacultuur Meppel. With permission of town council, on their ground (Noorderpark).


This is the community garden of Permacultuur Meppel (PM on the map). Also in the Noorderpark. This was the first project of P.M., started over 4 years ago, a group of volunteers who almost all live in Haveltermade.


These are the little goats of the 'Dierenweide' (animal or pet pasture), which is very close to the community garden. This isn't part of Permacultuur Meppel, but we like it.  


This is marked on the map with 'KZ'; it is the Kingdom Hall (KoninkrijksZaal) of Jehovah's Witnesses. This is important to me, because I'm in that congregation of JW.


Foot/bicycle bridge over the Oude Vaart. I often pass that bridge, because it is close to where I live.


The street I live in. You can see the entrance gate to my front yard in the left of this photo. The only garden in the street with such a living green gate.
In the distance there are some signs of shops at the street level of apartment buildings. That's what I mean in the map by buildings with orange and grey stripes ...

My Map: Windward has dedicated 40 acres of forest as a private venue campground and I made this map for our campers' use.