the new garden!

one of most attractive reasons for me staying in seoul for a second year was my community garden plot. HOWEVER, one day early last month, i found out (with enormous despair) that my community garden was being turned into a high-rise apt building. [!!!]

alas, with a little effort, i found another garden (YAY!).. and it's actually a bit better than the last one! it's pretty much the same distance from my house (30min bike ride) but now i just bike the opposite way along the lovely yangjae stream. perfect!

this community garden (daewon farm) is uber organized... on opening day (last weekend), they handed out gloves, hand-hoes, a tray of lettuce seedlings and a few other types of seeds. they also have a PA system (which i think they use just to make announcements about the 2 foreigners, ha).


...and, perhaps the BEST thing about this place, is that they have a little restaurant on site where they serve up noodle soup, savory veggie pancakes and plenty of makgeoli. and the people couldn't be any friendlier. happy joy & rainbows.


i was so stoked when i found my own personalized little plot. my friend, frederik, went in halves w/ me, though, so we updated the sign. :)



thus far, we've planted 4 types of lettuce (seedlings) and then some spinach, radish, crown daisy (they make nice chop suey greens), basil and mint. this coming weekend we're gonna plant some beets, cilantro, spring onions, peppers, and anything else we can make room for.

growing food gets me excited. the garden pics will be greener next time, i promise. :)