Men at Work

There was so much happening at Beelarong Community Farm yesterday at our usual Wednesday morning get-together that I don’t know where to start, so I’ll talk a bit about the on-going maintenance.

Before I go any further I think it’s important to point out that we are all, men and women, free to work at any job we want to to keep the place ticking over. But funnily enough us women don’t fall over ourselves to move railway sleepers!

So today let’s honour the fellows who work their little butts off with maintenance around the farm. Building raised beds; hauling railway sleepers to give a boundary to the allotment plots, they must weigh a ton; chainsawing dead limbs off trees after storms; feeding branches through the mulcher to go into our compost bins and give us wonderful humus; laying pipes and plumbing about the place; building sheds; keeping the community garden and our allotments rodent free as root vegetables can attract the critters; and last, but absolutely not least, ensuring that our “Windy Loo” stays sweet!

Here are a couple of pics taken yesterday.

Building raised beds

Mixing concrete

So thank you guys, we couldn’t do without you. I won’t mention them by name because I don’t want to miss anybody out.

Happy gardening.