Navarros versus the Community Garden

The Union City community garden is hands down my favorite new place.  Ruby can roam around like the free range chicken that she is, and it basically fulfills my  yard yearning.  Even Isis is welcome there.  On her leash, of course, and we have already met similarly-sized Tinkerbell and Lily, so she is in good company while we work.

The garden has an incredible amount of really good puttering energy.  Ruby actually puttered there today all morning before her nap and all afternoon after it.  Mostly, she still has the attention span of a hummingbird (mom loves you, little hummingbird) so it was impressive to see her content in one place for so many hours on end.

While she puttered, we actually worked quite hard to get our little plots from barren wasteland to glorious rows of planted seeds.  Drumroll for the list of produce we planted:

1. corn
2. peas
3. string beans
4. lettuce
5. cantaloupe
6. watermelon
7. cucumber
8. bell pepper
9. zucchini
10. jalapeno
11. tomato
12. cilantro
13. basil
14. spinach
15. swiss chard

My new favorite person, John, who runs the garden, told us, "when it grows, you're going to love it!" and I am certain he is correct.

Below are photos I took to chronicle our great day, and one of many efforts toward moving to the zero waste model.

That last shot might just look like a bunch of watered dirt. but if you look carefully, you can see the love in there, too.