Yee is designer, Gemi the Project Manager - for the day
gravel and soil for the school garden we will create
Designer and project manager confer with the school's rep teacher

Tim of Zaytuna Farm measures the proposed site
Existing trees

Sleepers for the garden beds arrive
Maxime
Backrub while waiting
Faan works a weed wacker for the first time
Using landscaper's paint to mark area
A pond overgrown with galangal
Clearing the pond and much of the galangal


Manual excavation begins

Sleepers replacing bad ones arrive
The children with their teachers "help"

While we do the real digging

Some interns work with the kids

Stella is always stylish

Did you get your hands dirty?
Show of hands!
Back to Zaytuna for lunch
Our bus, lent to interns/students for excursions
Tasks are done on a rotational basis
Blue and the man-made pond/lake
Blue
Robert Burns
Bobby and Blue go diving

Back to landscaping
Beautiful light
Putting in weed mat and gravel
Putting in drains

Putting in spoon drain
Gemi instructs me on proper spoon drain
Bamboo splitter tool
Using bamboo as retainer material


Pep talk from Nick

Stella and Lynne
Habon
Maxime
Maxime
Rosa
The bed structures arrive - made by Conrad and Sandra
Finishing drain in garden
The site is too small and has to be expanded


Deciding on layout





Final configuration
Back to Zaytuna, the view from inside my tent
Final day back on the project
Fruit trees to plant for food forest
Lynne does an inventory
Unloading tools
List of tree/plant species
leveling the beds

Kids learn about fruit trees that will be planted
top level for higher beds with built-in benches arrive
and are installed

Filling the beds with soil
Making sure the beds are over a drain


Cassava
Guava, papaya, pomegranate, passion fruit, etc.

Mulching the beds with straw


Kids join in mulching

Bamboo retaining wall installed by Gemi and I







Spoon drain being completed
Kids plant vegetable seedings
Planted with leguminous ground cover and lemon grass

Planting holes for the fruit trees
Fruit trees in woody compost mulch

More instruction
Garden beds and site finished
Trees planted

Bank mulched for protection
Fished.