Things are Dumping

I hit the brakes, screeched to a halt, right there on the Hannegan, just north of the Nooksack River bridge. What did I see? Gold. Yes gold the kind of stuff that grows great vegetables and other things. Tons of river silt being scooped up by the County, Whatcom that is.

I asked the traffic control gal “Where’s this all going?” Response, “I’m not sure.” “Who’s in-charge here?” “There in that truck over there, ask Brian.”

I did.

Fast-forward…a couple hours…

After some form-filling, protocol stuff which Rana at Sonlight had to endure, we started to receive on our garden plot wonderful loamy silt river sediment. This is the stuff of legend…rich, flood-plain soil and organics that keep much of the world alive.

So we should have within the next couple days around 45 cubic yards of this river silt on our site.



Thanks to the Whatcom County Public Works folks: Brian, Orv and Christy.

And more thanks to the City of Lynden Public Works folks: Laurie, Jean and Mark.

And still much more special thanks to Rana at Sonlight for dropping everything on her schedule so she could make scads of phone calls, run down to City Hall, faxing forms here and there, rush out the “dump” site, making all things connect and wonderful. All this so we can have our dirt and play in it.

Thanks Rana and friends.

Jeff and Community Garden Green-Thumbs