Redux | September 8, 2006: The first batch of soil arrived at the site yesterday afternoon—8 tonnes, courtesy of Parks and Trees, City of Fredericton—and David Smith (from Save A Plant, one of the project's sponsors) and I got to work.

We began with laying out a number of flattened cardboard boxes where we wanted the woodchipped path to be and marked it out with a piece of rope. We then spent the morning building up the berms on the outer edge of the site and managed to spread a little soil across the remainder of the site and in towards the path. Finally, thanks to our neighbours Devon Lumber, we mulched the pathway with cedar wood chips and placed two wooden posts to delineate the entranceway, with a third at the southern corner to discourage cyclists from cutting across the site at this shallow part of the berm.

 The photographs show the fruits of our labours for today. Later in the afternoon, the City generously donated a little more soil which we could use to further build up the berms. Time for a break, and fingers crossed that the site will survive any curious night-time visitors :)

 


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