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.
We are constantly adding to our gardens, so check back regularly to see how our gardens are growing!
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!
The Kale is so happy!
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!
Bee Balm
Kale
Holy Basil
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.
They’re babies now, but they’ll be big soon!
What an improvement! Check out the foodified Community Thrift Store sign!
The garden is ready to grow!
We topped it with a layer of mulch to help hold in the moisture. Then all the plants got a big drink of water!
In go the plants! Rosemary, lavender, oregano, lemon thyme, creeping thyme, holy basil, kale, bee balm, lemon balm, peppers, chamomile, and more!
Check it out! The lasagne-garden is ready for plants!
It’s time for the top layer of soil!
We smoothed the leaf layer to get ready for the next layer of soil.
The leaves will break down to form a layer rich in nutrients for our plants.
Next, we added a thick layer of leaf litter from the forest.
Newsprint and the first layer of soil are added – the lasagne-garden foundation is growing!
layers, layers, and more layers!
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.
Thank you Hall Brothers!
Hall Brothers donated the topsoil for our new garden.
Check out that beautiful cardboard foundation!
We took the time to peel all the tape and plastic labels from the boxes since they won’t decompose.
The cardboard layers will both smother the grass and will decompose into organic matter for the plants.
The soil in the garden space is impacted and full of grass so we are building the soil up lasagne-style.
We peeled the tape from the cardboard and then layered it thickly to smother the grass.
cardboard from our recycling center and unprinted newsprint from the Pickens County Progress
cardboard, newsprint, and leaves to be layered – plants and mulch to be added
The plan sign – ready to get edibilized!
About the Plants
Check back soon for updates!! We are currently growing this page.
KPB is successful because of folks like you! Come lend a hand!
