Artist/author, Nancy Canyon, creates her paintings in a vintage art studio/gallery located in Historic Fairhaven.: Raven Chronicles, Water~Stone Review, Fourth Genre, Floating Bridge Review, Clover, Her paintings, photographs, poems, and prose are widely published. Nancy works for Whatcom Community College Community Ed teaching writing and the illustrated journal. She has penned three novels and is working on a memoir detailing two summers spent as a fire lookout attendant in the Clearwater National Forest in the early70s. She is a writing teacher for WWC and a coach for The Narrative Project. She is married with three grown children, a cat named Sid and a dog named Olive. She loves to dance and laugh with her friends, and to spend time in nature. See more at http://nancyloucanyon.blogspot.com and www.nancycanyon.com
I'm growing vegetables in a neighborhood shared gardening spot owned by the Parks Department. The rent is $18/year. One must keep up the space and garden organically. There are 34 spots, each 10x20, separated by cement blocks. There's a tool shed with shovels and rakes, pitchforks and wheelbarrels. There are several water spigets and shared plants: plum trees, rhubard, and flowers. Some folks have more than one plot--and have been gardening there for years. The plots are hard to come by, and if one opens up, the potential gardener must stand in line on January first at 8 a.m. to secure it. For me, there were four spots available, and four folks standing in line. I was one of them and although my soil is bad and needs lots of tender care, I consider myself lucky.
No comments:
Post a Comment