Private 'Artist's Gardens', where the pioneering gardners cansucceed intensively in a small space, and inspire the rest of us.
CLCA (Children's Learning and Cutlure Association) wish for a community garden in the mountains of Odawara. I've never seen a successful remote community garden, and I would never normally design a garden that isn't about a meter away from where the gardener cooks and eats.
But with the love and resources CLCA has, its quite possible this pretty, sloping land by the sea can be made a place that attracts peoples love and rewards their energies.
Yesterday off I went to present my design, and a slideshow of the worlds best (and worst) community gardens, from which we will be borrowing (and pre-warned).
We didn't intend to start creating it, but since it was such a great group of people, including legendary Farmer Ishiwata and Resourceful Farmer Hoda, a workshop day just happened.
The first thing you do when you create a garden is ....
....hold a raindance.
But thats just in dry old Australia, and since it is rainy season here anyway, we abandoned the dancing and went right on to adapting the map to the territory.
We re-designing the paths to fit views, existing trees, where people would naturally wish to sit or gaze, and how many steps people would actually take.
Desinging, trying out our curves with bamboo and string. Seeing that its not working, adjusting, getting better and better.
Thats how you make anything.
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