TWL, Board, me.

Fri, 31 Oct 2008 00:00:00 +0000

The amount of time spent volunteering has been one of the great changes in our lives since moving. For me, it’s usually either maintaining the forest trails or helping with farm work on behalf of the Trust for Working Landscapes.

For the TWL I’ve recently participated in a couple of different parties:

day road irrigation project

Day Road irrigation,

greenhouses

deconstructing the greenhouses

Greenhouses, up and down.

Sun, 07 Sep 2008 00:00:00 +0000

Under perfect blue skies and warm temperatures, I volunteered a couple of hours labor on Saturday to help the Trust for Working Landscapes and a local farmer deconstruct two large greenhouses for relocation on another farm.

start

When I arrived the crew was re-attaching the frame supports in order to give the structure enough stability to be taken apart.

full rib

The basic idea was to get on the tall ladders, detach the cross beams from rib-to-rib and then pull the sides apart. Working on a ladder 15+ feet high, my known incompetence with all things construction and the general limited knowledge of how to bring the structure down safely made the first couple of minutes a bit, um, nerve-wracking (at least for me).

Volunteering on

TWL, Board, me.

Greenhouses, up and down.