Happy Camp Community Garden

Walk-Through Video

2010-03-31T16:46:00.000-07:00

Morgan details our community's vision for the garden.

For a text-based overview of our plan for the site, see "Deliverables."

Jenny's Heros Grant Application

2010-03-31T15:44:00.000-07:00

Yesterday, Karen Derry applied for a $10,000 grant from Jenny's Heros to cover concrete walkways, ramps, railings, benches, and large planter boxes.

Satellite View of the Site

2010-03-02T13:58:00.000-08:00

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Website Publicity

2010-03-01T17:11:00.000-08:00

We just posted the Happy Camp Community Garden Blog on the following sites:

Karuk News Google Group
http://groups.google.com/group/karuknews/

Happy Camp Chamber of Commerce Google Group
http://groups.google.com/group/happycampchamber/

Happy Camp Family Resource Center Community News
http://www.siskfrc.org/

Debris

2010-03-01T15:29:00.000-08:00

Note the piles of yard waste and solid debris. This is the result of nearly one-hundred fifty years of construction and mining. It's mine-tailings, broken concrete and rebar, pieces of dimensional lumber, broken bottles and other stuff that needs to be hauled off before the site is graded.

Karen Derry's vision for this tiny marsh is to integrate the natural seep into a small wetland preserve—not drain and build over it.

Power Drop

2010-03-01T15:12:00.001-08:00

As you can see there is a power pole on the site. It is active, and it won't take much effort to drop power from there.

The two greenhouses are situated on either side of the pole.

Site Plan

2010-03-01T15:06:00.001-08:00

This is a rough Site Plan for the Happy Camp Community Garden. If we get funding we can start removing debris and grading immediately.

The use of the site has been generously donated by the Church of Latter-Day Saints.

Pepsi Refresh Deliverables

2010-03-01T14:27:00.000-08:00

This is what we will do if we receive the $50,000 community grant from the Pepsi Refresh Project:

Transform a vacant 2.3 acre lot (adjacent to the Family Resource Center and sharing a fenceline with Happy Camp Elementary) into a self-sustaining organic fruit, vegetable and flower garden and green space.
Create a Wheelchair Accessible greenspace, by building nearly a half-mile of concrete ramps and walkways, benches, and raised planting beds with seeding platforms.
Build a safe area for seniors to walk.
Rent out a multi-use space, for craft shows, farmer's markets, etc.
Provide "Adopt-a-pot" and "Adopt-a-plot" private gardening areas, with proceeds going to creating nutritional and educational opportunities for the local Elementary School and Emergency Food Bank (both within 100 yards).
Grow organic produce for the Senior Meal Program.
Elementary School class participation in planting and harvesting.
Surpluses will be canned, juiced, jammed and dried for sale in our open air market.
Build Two Greenhouses, one commercial and one educational, for acclimatized vegetable and flower starts. Both need to be snow-load compliant and securable.

We know it's fairly ambitious for such a small amount of money, but we are confident that we will have the full support of the community behind us.

Pepsi Refresh Project Grant Proposal

2010-03-01T13:55:00.000-08:00

We are in the process of writing a grant proposal to the Pepsi Refresh Project. This will be our micro-site on that project:

http://www.refresheverything.com/happycampgarden

We've almost got it ready, Morgan Caulfield and I just need to do our "walk-and-talk" video and it will be ready for submission.