Compost and weeds make great gardens!

The pollinator project reflects my life work — building beautiful gardens using stone, permaculture methods and compost, creating food for pollinators first and then humans second. I want people to know the value of compost (anything goes that can decompose!) and how to be responsible for their own waste stream. Also to understand the value of “weeds” — not only that they are food for our pollinators but valuable medicine for humans.

I would like to use this pollinator spiral garden as an outdoor classroom, a prototype design for homeowners, schools and communities to develop their own gardens. I will be offering classes once the plants have taken root and plan to have a Bee Green event with artists, musicians and speakers.

Thanks to Freshtown, Dade Allen, Deanna Kirk, Ruth Golobin, Linda and Harry McCartney, Picnic, Janet Cowan and the Arkville plant market guy for contributions of money, plants, rocks and compost.