Last Saturday was a milestone for I put the 2,000th bag of grass clippings in the Big Hole. Since my blog of 6/18/2012 I have named the newly formed land Spring Creek Delta and it is growing to the edge of the bluff above Spring Creek. So far I have created 900 square feet of new flat land, always sinking and subsiding, but there are no levees to disrupt the source of sediment. The soil supply which is these bags of leaves and grass clippings seems to be endless. And I am are saving them from the Baton Rouge landfill.
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| Image #130907-0248 Last Saturday with the 2,000th Bag |
The view is great and the land is solid. The new soil has been used by numerous species of wildlife. Check out my blog of 7/20/12 which discusses my remote night camera to see some of those animals.
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| Image #110813_0014 Near the Beginning with Only 36 Bags Put In |
Last week I brought out a camp chair and started writing.
The point of the project, other than saving bags of organic material from the
landfill, is to have a special place to write. It worked, I feel inspired here
and there are bonuses such as the coyote that walked within 40 ft of me as I
sat still. It bounded down the bluff to the creek then chased a grey squirrel
up the other bank. I imagine I will see lots of critters here over the next few
years.
Kind of a crazy project, but its good.
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