Recycled tired tyre garden
Mable Daycare gives 1 nutritious hot meal to up to 43 children whom they host daily. I plan to do the following to create a sustainable Short-term and Long-term Impact on the Daycare’s facilities and create a space where they can grow their own Vegetable. We will overhaul the Food Garden which they don’t currently use as it’s worn out and build a Compost heap to create lasting nutrient rich soil so the vegetables can grow healthily for years to come.
I believe I met these objectives, and the proof is in the pudding. We completed the rebuilding of the food garden and repainted 12 panels of palisade fence. Working over 6 days, we removed the old garden, created a new layout, mixed a nutrient rich soil mix, filled the tyre beds with the new soil, placed stepping stones, planted both seeds and seedlings, made a tunnel and compost heap.
I learned all about the process of rebuilding a garden from scratch; The impact of changing something that may seem to be a simple project (albeit long hours and hard labour) to you, and seeing how it positively effects those who are around it and rely on it everyday. I also learned how to handle day to day changes - be it weather, who would be volunteering with me that day, and quantity changes with the different sized tyres.
