Dust and Mulch - Volunteers

The day after our bunny fencing adventure with the Westmont basketball team we hosted a group of volunteers from Santa Barbara Community Church’s high school group. The farm is located on the property owned by SBCC so of course they know what is going on and want to help out when they can. This Saturday found us mulching the road leading into the farm. The road gets really rutted during the winter rains and the mulch helps minimize the damage. The mulch also helps keep down the dust which blows into the field when cars drive up and down the road. Dust clogs the pours of the plants and hinders the pollinators from doing their job. So, we spread a lot of mulch this day. In addition, I put Sam in charge of a small crew to clean up and re-mulch the trail from the church parking lot down to the farm. They did a fantastic job. Nice leadership Sam; you deserved the hammock time at the end of the day. Thank you Benji and Erik for organizing this day and all the youth and mentors who worked with us.