The Community Thrift Store

The garden at the Pickens Community Thrift Store is the latest installation of the Edible Pickens project. It is off to a good start, but there’s a lot more to come so check back for updates!

The Thrift Store Team has grand visions for expanding the gardens to cover the entire hill and to be filled with food for the community. Are you interested in helping? Let us know because this is going to be a massive project that can lead to great things as we work to sustainably battle food insecurity in our county.

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Photos are in reverse order with the most recent first so you can see the garden today. Be sure to scroll down to see how it’s grown!

happy plants — Most of the plants are thriving! It’s always a learning process to see what plants will be happy here…. We’ll keep adding more throughout the season.

After a few weeks, the garden is growing!

Edible Pickens Thrift Store plants — We added a wide variety of plants to see what will be most successful in this new garden space. It’ll take a few seasons to know which plants will be best.

A beautified sign — What an improvement! Check out the foodified Community Thrift Store sign!

top layer of mulch added — We topped it with a layer of mulch to help hold in the moisture. Then all the plants got a big drink of water!

foodscaping — In go the plants! Rosemary, lavender, oregano, lemon thyme, creeping thyme, holy basil, kale, bee balm, lemon balm, peppers, chamomile, and more!

beautiful soil — Check it out! The lasagne-garden is ready for plants!

adding soil — It’s time for the top layer of soil!

smoothing the leaves — We smoothed the leaf layer to get ready for the next layer of soil.

lots of leaves — The leaves will break down to form a layer rich in nutrients for our plants.

next a layer of leaves — Next, we added a thick layer of leaf litter from the forest.

the lasagne-foundation grows! — Newsprint and the first layer of soil are added – the lasagne-garden foundation is growing!

adding to the foundation — layers, layers, and more layers!

adding layers of newsprint and soil — The Pickens County Progress gave us rolls of unprinted newsprint, so we added layers of that too. It was a windy day so the soil helped hold everything down.

topsoil donated by Hall Brothers — Hall Brothers donated the topsoil for our new garden.

Check out that beautiful cardboard foundation!

removing the tape — We took the time to peel all the tape and plastic labels from the boxes since they won’t decompose.

adding more cardboard — The cardboard layers will both smother the grass and will decompose into organic matter for the plants.

adding cardboard layers — The soil in the garden space is impacted and full of grass so we are building the soil up lasagne-style.

peeling tape and layering cardboard — We peeled the tape from the cardboard and then layered it thickly to smother the grass.

cardboard and newsprint — cardboard from our recycling center and unprinted newsprint from the Pickens County Progress

cardboard and newsprint to be layered, plants, leaves, mulch, and more — cardboard, newsprint, and leaves to be layered – plants and mulch to be added

Community Thrift Store sign — The plan sign – ready to get edibilized!

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