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- Nick uses decorative rocks gathered from local areas to create the foundation of the kiosk.
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- Nick prepares the kiosk with special signs made to share information.
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- The Whispers Of Nature Kiosk provides information about labyrinths, the garden and a small finger labyrinth is available for folks to experience.
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- As visitors come to walk the labyrinth the entry Kiosk and Brenna’s sign welcome them to the area.
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- Brenna’s beautiful sing welcomes visitors to the garden. Nick re-used 8 lawnmower blades and a water standpipe saved from the dump to create the stand for Brenna’s sign.
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- Nick re-used metal collected from our local dump to create this stand for Brenna’s sign. There are 8 lawnmower blades, a water standpipe with handle and an old lamp stands all heated, bent, shaped and welded together.
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- Dedicated labyrinth keepers planting the lavender approximately 3′ feet apart to allow for full growth.
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- Local Labyrinth Keeper, Carla helps plant one of 100 lavender plants.
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- Labyrinth Keepers help plant and water the freshly planted lavender starts. These lavender starts were all local raised here on Lopez.
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- This is one of the visitors favorite directions and views while walking the labyrinth
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- These outer circuits will soon be planted with lavender and other herbs.
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- The fall cover crop planting of 2008 looks good and is coming in well.
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- The contrast between the pathways and the low green grasses makes for a beautiful display.
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- Nick edges the pathways, by turning the soils near the edge makes the rotilling easier and cleaner for the pathways.
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- The Crimson clover display was very beautiful and many visitors loved the showy sea of red.
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- The spring cover crop really came in well and created lovely green colors for visitors
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- The fall cover crop planting of 2008 included Crimson clover, winter rye, Australian winter pea and fava beans.
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- Nick begins rototilling in the pasture mix for the personal garden. Even though the pasture mix was tall the green mulch will provide plenty of nutrients for the spring planting.
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- After rototilling the fall cover crop of the 2008 Nick clears the garden of large rocks. Removing the rocks will make it easier on the rototiller in the future .
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- collecting rocks from newly rototilled areas proves to be a BIG project. This area of Lopez Island was a large glacial deposit area, plenty of rocks to collect.
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- Nick hooks up the water pump to gather water from the pond for hand watering the newly planted herbs and flowers in the garden. Nick created this watering system using a 12 volt battery, bilge pump and garden hoses. The large wheel is for dispensing the garden hose.
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- After brushcutting the pasture mix, Susie and Nick gathered up the grasses for future use