2017 Fairmount Park Pollination Garden

Photos by Kyle Muschall

The site on Park Avenue for our Pollination Garden. John Huggins’s Lot after he’s installed a new retaining wall


 

John Huggins unloading the tiller


 

From Left: Cindy Muschall and Sharon Babbitt looking at the work ahead


 

John raking out the soil amendments (Fertilizer)


 

John H. and Greg Myers raking out the ferterlizer


 

Cindy working the top tier to get the fertilizer smoothed out


 

Sharon raising her rake in defiance of the work ahead


 

Michelle Mutchler-Burns filling up a 3 gallon bucket with debris before the tiller comes through


 

Sharon with her pitchfork prying bricks out of the ground before the tiller chews up the ground


 

John starting the first of many passes with the tiller


 

John completing the first lap with the tiller toward the front of the lot just passed our Fairmount Park banner pole


 

John starting tilling on the top tier as Greg continues to clear bricks and debris from the tiller path


 

Greg gets a turn at the back breaking and bone jarring tiller to give John a break


 

Michelle preparing the seed for dispersal. Everything had to be mixed in porportions


 

John and Greg loading the tiller to take back to the rental shop


 

The pile of bricks, rocks, pipes and detritus our small band of volunteers managed to extricate from the lot


 

Michelle sowing the seeds on the both tiers


 

Cindy watering the top tier to encourage growth


 

Cindy and Sharon finishing the watering and hoping for a good bloom


 

This project was funded by your Fairmount Park Neighborhood donations and a grant from the Omaha Men’s Garden Club. They provided a striking laser cut metal sign to commemorate the project kick off