greetings from a teeny tiny farm.

[mopinko]

8. i am doing something called a hugel bed.

if you go to the link in my sig it has an explanation in one of the first posts. here is a wiki-http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugelkultur#H.C3.BCgelkultur

basically, i am violating city ordinance by accepting landscape waste aka compost waiting to happen. there was a house at one time, and there was a 100 cu yd hole left behind, so i am lucky that i had that. i get to say- hey, i'm just filling in the hole.
it sure isn't easy, tho. a friend loaned me a little bobcat for the summer (he uses it to plow snow). it is a little one, but it is immeasurably better than the alternative.

and yeah, you would think the greenest ward in what is aiming to be the greenest city would want a garden and not and eyesore, but, well, i have no idea. the grief has been incredible.