MOTHER’s Publishing Company Starts Garden on Front Lawn

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I am thrilled to announce that a few weeks back, some of our team members joined with others at our publishing house to start a garden on the front lawn of our building. The idea had been floating around the office for some time, and we finally put the wheels in motion. This has been such an exciting adventure so far — plus, it just feels right that MOTHER would have a garden on the lawn.

We planned to have two large garden beds, one on each side of our company sign. Each bed was slated to be 27 feet by 25 feet. During a couple planning meetings, we decided to make the gardens “edible landscaping,” complete with lots of flowers, plenty of veggies, designed paths and even benches. We’re using planks and old tree stumps to make the benches.

We broke ground with shovels, and after an hour of intensely attempting sod removal, we hadn’t gotten very far. The next couple days, we decided to rent a sod cutter (we joked that sticking with shovels, and only working over our lunch breaks, would have put planting at about 2013).

The sod cutter sped up the process greatly, and it turns out that one of our coworkers needed sod for his lawn at home — so we rolled it all up and put it in the bed of his truck. No waste! (I have to admit the rolls looked a lot more uniform on the second day, after we’d had some practice.)

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