A Big Thank You to all the people who has been so help full in the garden in 2006

This year we started with a garden overgrown with weeds, due to the heavy rains this past summer. The grasses were standing shoulder high till the gates.

Thankfully we received a lot of help with cleaning it up, to get it ready for planting our winter crop.

Firstly there was the KLM crew spending a full day pulling out the long grass.

RED HILL SCHOOL.

Then during the April holidays there was Jenny Page with her group of students from Red Hill school. They arrived with extra tools, seedlings to plant and lots of eager hands to take out the next load of long grasses..

AMERICAN SCHOOL

In May , Elizabeth Love offered to come and help with her son Lucas and a group of students from the American school to do their community service in our garden, twice a week they spent the afternoon after school in the garden.

They really cleaned the garden out, THANK YOU ALL SO MUCH we could not have done it with out all your help.

Another big THANK YOU has to go to Maaike’s good friend in Holland ROSE BROSHUIS, she got all her friends and family to donate towards our garden.

We have been able to build new retainer walls, put in an irrigation, gutters on the roofs of the kitchen and the art room to catch the rain water and a pump to pump the water from the tanks to the garden. Lots and lots of compost for the second terrace.

Thank you all so much for your generosity.

In June we got more good news, another of our wonderful Dutch friends Hans Katoen and the KLM Document Center and Navigation Employees and the Bos and Vaart Primary school in Haarlem (Holland) donated R8706 which has enabled us to get 2 truck loads of topsoil and labour to dig our 3rd terrace which will give us another 25 new beds ready for planting of our summer crops in August.

To all of you a” Mighty Big Thank You”- without your help it would not be possible.

We also like to thank Michael Smith for growing and donating many of our seedlings and Ken Reid for donating fertilis, vegetable plants and earth worms and always being there for advise.

Thank you to our 2 new volunteers Shirley Doyle and Debbie Speller without whom it would not be possible for me Maaike to do all that is needed in the garden. Shirley and Debbie we really appreciate your commitment and reliability in assisting us in the garden.

Thank you all so much for your generosity !!!!!! From Maaike and the CLM team