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Deck Measurements
Federated Indians of Graton Rancheria
ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION DEPARTMENT
Rooftop Garden Project



Project Details
Project Photos

Proposed Project Area - FIGR Tribal Office 3/2009










Plant and Soil Removal















Workshop - 10/11/09















Cover Crop - East Planter Box 10/20/2009 - 9 days after initial planting.










Cover Crop - East Planter Box 10/26/2009 - 15 day after initial planting
















Cover Crop - East Planter Box 11/02/2009 - 22 day after initial planting












Cover Crop - East Planter Box 11/09/2009 - 29 day after initial planting
10/20/09 - MIxed seeds bed 9 days after planting cover crop. 10/20/09 - Purple Vetch Bed.10/20/09 - Purple Vetch Bed.10/20/09 - Purple Vetch Bed.10/20/09 - Oats bed.10/20/09 - Austiran Field Peas bed.10/20/09 - Austiran Field Peas bed.10/20/09 - Austiran Field Peas bed.
East Side of Deck FIGR Tribal Office.East Side of Deck FIGR Tribal Office.North Side of Deck FIGR Tribal Office.North Side of Deck FIGR Tribal Office.West Side of Deck FIGR Tribal Office.West Side of Deck FIGR Tribal Office.
Codding Enterprises removes plants from East Planter Box.Codding Enterprises also removes bark layer in the entire planter box.bark and plant removal from Planter box.Eric and Marcelo remove soil from East planter box.Marcelo (Codding Enterprises) helps to remove soil from East planter box.Plants and bark cover removed. now to take out the soil.Lara, Devin, Lorelle and Marcelo check out the project.Eric, Lara and Devin removing soil. The soil was kept in piles which were then gone through to remove roots.Lara and Devin removing soil from the East planter box.Soil removal, East Planter box.Eric removing soil from the East planter box.Lara preps the area for soil removal.
Workshop participants learning about Permaculture Prinicpals.Workshop participants design for the deck.Workshop participants design for the deck.Workshop participants design for the deck.Doug Gosling (OAEC) preps for worm composting.Doug Gosling and MIchelle Vesser (OAEC) showing Devin how to build a worm box.Doug Gosling and MIchelle Vesser (OAEC) showing Devin how to build a worm box.Mini Compost buckets will be used to recycle organic waste from the kitchen.Organic waste from the plants and kitchen to be used to feed the worms.
Garden Activity Log
10/11/09
planted cover crop consisting of
  • purple vetch
  • oats
  • Austiran field peas
  • Mixed seeds

10/12/09
Rain

10/13/09
Heavy Rain

10/14/09
Light Rain

10/18/09
Light Rain

10/19/09
Heavy Rain

10/26/09 - 10am
Watered garden

10/28/09 - 1:30pm
Watered garden

11/02/09 -2:00pm
Watered garden

11/05/09
Rain

11/06/09
light Rain

11/09/09 -2:00pm
Started removing bird netting from planter. - EW
Note: Bird netting is there to allow the seeds to germinate.  If you wait too long the pea and vetch with attach to the bird netting. (which it already has, in the future remember to remove the netting as soon as the seeds germinate)

11/10/09 -2:00pm
Removed remaining bird netting from planter. - EW
Worm Bin Activity Log
10/11/09
Worm Bin Constructed

10/13/09
Fed worms kitchen waste - DC

10/14/09
Began collecting 3rd floor kitchen waste to feed worms which consisted of
  • Coffee grounds
  • cuttings from flowers

10/20/09
Fed worms kitchen waste - DC

10/23/09
Fed worms kitchen waste-DC

10/30/09
Fed worms kitchen waste-DC

Mixed cover crop starting to fill entire bird netting 15 days after initial planting.Planter box filling in quite nicely.
Garden Progession over time
Ground Zero             Day 1                Day 9                 Day 15                 Day 22          Day 29


Ground ZeroOctober 11, 2009 - adding cover crop.Day 9 - cover crop begins to show visible signs of life.Day 15 - Cover crop continues to grow.Day 22 - Cover crop reaching bird netting.Day 15 - Cover crop continues to grow.Day 29 - Cover crop growing through bird netting. Time to remove bird netting, we may have waited too long.