Gardeners went hard at it getting beds ready and rototilled during the La Ronge Airport Community Garden work bee on Saturday, May 20.
For the seventh year, the work bee included working up the soil and making it ready for a new season of gardening.
The Town of La Ronge began a community garden project, with Jason Cook Studer volunteering to get the project going.
The garden preparation involves turning sod in half of the yard behind the Town Office into a variety of garden spaces.
The first area involves lifting soil in strips and Cook Studer plans to use a “futuristic planning“[process], called hugelkultur.
The process involves removing sod and digging trench like strips, which will be filled with twigs, leaves, composting down under, before adding soil.
With this process “you’re adding the nutrients underneath your top soil so over the years it will decay and provide nutrients to the system,” Cook Studer said.
The centre part of the garden will be divided into a Medicine Wheel and will have four quadrants separated in a circular fashion.
It will be up to the community to decide what will go into the four quadrants, he said.
It could be medicine plants, vegetables, specific-coloured plants or other.
There are a few more boxes that will be used by youth in conjunction with the Library, Cook Studer said. For Morgan Bell, who works with the Garden for the Town, it’s a very strenuous and time consuming practice and “It’s the time when I need volunteers the most,” she said.
