Planting silver sheen with Chris Noell, Christian Rodriguez, Belsie Arevalo and Gidget Granillo.

Thanks to Simone Schulz for digging, planting and sprinkling your fairy dust in our lovely garden!!

Laying fire-pit area and planting drought tolerant plants!

Thanks to Simone Schulz, Thais Camacho and Gidget Granillo!!

Building our beautiful raised bed!

Thank you to Refugio Mata, Sandra Valencia (and Sofi), Simone Schulz and Gidget Granillo!

More goodness.....

Planting the nectarine, plum and apricot trees with Chris and Gidget!

Oldies but goodies.....

Here are some old photos of work done in the Giving Garden this Spring (2009).

Thanks to Gidget Granillo and Chris Noell for helping to plant our nectarine, plum and apricot trees!

Thanks to Sara Laimon, Gidget Granillo and Thais Camacho for helping lay mulch in the front garden.

July 11, 2009 - Work/fun day!

Thanks to Anibal Koliren, Thais Camacho, Robert Kozek, Whakapainiga, Taz the Rockstar, Sandra Valencia and her lovely mom, Marta, for all of their hard work! It was such an incredible day and the garden is still feeling the love!!

Our Wish List!

Summer has been hot even in lovely Santa Monica! I've been on the look out for a huge truck load of mulch to cover the entire yard. Although, the garden is extremely grateful for the sun, it is currently depleting the soil of water. Mulch will create a protective layer from the sun's daily rays. I'm watering every other night and it's not enough right now. I know that the layer of mulch will do the trick.

Solar panels for the POD

Water barrels (for our rainwater catchments system). The bigger the better.

More plants - vegetables, flowers, drought tolerant/natives.

Natural builders - for cob benches/oven.

Materials for our natural building projects: sand, clay, hay.

Money.....always looking for donations to make all of these projects a reality.

In August, it will be a year since I've moved into the house. We began giving the garden love in September. It was our goal to spend this summer enjoying the fruits of our labor and we have definitely been doing that.

Thank you to everyone for making this dream a reality!

Much love!
Guzel