alleyween

alleyween

It’s unbelievable how far we’ve come. It was this time last year when we had our first event in the plaza – a chili cook-off and pumpkin carving. Neighbors timidly came out with their crock pots. Still mostly strangers, it took a little coaxing to get the...
how our garden grows

how our garden grows

Seems like these days I’m always way behind on the posts about the alley but it’s hard to have much time to write about it when I’m still working on it! At the root of it all (pun intended) – we could’t have done our alley project without the...
Garden of Eatin’

Garden of Eatin’

I grew up with a huge garden – and by huge, I mean feed-a-small-third-world-nation kind of huge. There were rows of berries and grapes, suitable for constant grazing. Tall stands of sweet yellow corn to play hide and seek amongst. Melons and zucchinis sending...