Healing Gardens

High and Mid elevations

I. Overview: Narrative Description

There are two sections of sloping land that make up the high and middle elevations site on the southwestern side of the Longhouse. A path connects the two sections and leads up to a dried up pond on the upper protion of the land. One side ends at the back up to a brushy decidious forest. The land closer to the forest is covered in thick brush while the land closer to the pavement is covered sparsely by ferns, trailing blackberries, adn small tufts of grass. The general shape of the garden is long rectangles, th longside towards the longhouse. Remnants of past work are the pond liner and some brush that looks weed wack attacked. A lone bunchberry sign stands awkwardly by some native blackberry.

II. High and Mid Elevation Site Map

Shape: the middle and high elevations are rectangular. The longside is on the northeast side of the demonstrational garden space.

Topography: The ground varies in slope. Starting at the pavement, middle elevations it climbs steeply at first then more gradual to the plateau of the High elevations.

Slopes: The average slope is at about a 45 degree angle, sloping towards the west. The light is able to shine in from the morning on until after the mid day.

Exposure: 30% of the land has medium to high exposure, 4-6 hours per day, while 70% has medium low, about 4-2 hours per day.

Soil Characteristics: In the open part, the soil is sandy with pebble sized rocks. In the brushier areas it has more forest loam mix. All in all it's not very fertile.

Water Feature: There is a dried up pond that we have dug out and covered. Of the seasonal persuasion. It's designed like a glacier pond to drain down the snow melt in the spring.

Animal Activities: It looks as though we actually house some ground squirrels or some sort of rodent.