20 cubic yards of soil!

After digging out the not-so-great-dirt-for-growing-vegetables out of the garden boxes, it was finally time to fill them with rich topsoil.  We are so, so grateful to Uncle Pete, Jen Wicher's uncle, who donated all 20 cubic yards of topsoil.  Thank you, so much Uncle Pete! 

Jen Wichers with her husband.

Here's how the 17, 5x5x1 foot garden boxes looked before we dug them out.

Here's how they looked after.

Jose came bright and earlier ( a good 1/2 hour before the rest of the gang showed up).

Thank you, so much Jose for all your hard work!

Plenty of wheel-barrows, for plenty of soil!

First we work, 

then we play!

...and work some more!  Jason had to hall 40 cubic feet of enriched gardening soil to the garden boxes so that we could add more nutrients to the load of topsoil we received.  

...and play some more!

Community involvement makes all the difference!

The Garden Team

And here is the end result!  

                                             before                                                    after

This next week, teachers will be swaping the seedlings they grew in their classrooms and then the teachers will take their classes out to their garden boxes to plant their vegetables and flowers.