2017 Fairmount Park Pollination Garden

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