Grounded in the Garden Traditional Cache
Chuck Walla: Hello McQuesters,
Geocaching HQ flagged this cache as one that may need attention and sent you an email about it. Some time after that, I disabled your cache and requested that you check on your cache and perform any necessary maintenance. Since you have not responded to my reviewer log about your cache by posting a note to your cache page to tell me and others of your intention to address the issue with it, the cache has been archived at the direction of Geocaching HQ.
Sincerely,
Chuck Walla
Community Volunteer Reviewer
Geocaching.com
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Watertight tin about 4 inches square. Log book - bring your own pen. Have stocked it with little trinkets. FTF $1 in cache.
This cache has been placed in a living art garden. The garden as it is currently configured was designed by local fiber artist Elia Woods. She, her husband and another neighborhood founded this garden in the mid-1990s as a way of bringing neighbors together and improving the neighborhood.
The group found several trashy, overgrown, vacant lots at this cache and developed a plan to acquire these lots for community gardens. The city donated the lots to the neighborhood association with the stipulation that they be turned into community gardens for the benefit of the neighborhood. Neighbors immediately began working together to clean up the area.
A major initial challenge was discovering high levels of chlordane contamination in the soil. Chlordane, which is now banned, used to be a commonly used termiticide. One of the founders researched biological methods of remediation, and after three years of adding compost and planting cover crops, the chlordane levels were down to zero. Since that time the garden has evolved and changed.
In 2008, Elia Woods, in conjunction with one of her art exhibits entitled Grounded, decided to transform one area of the community garden into an ongoing art process, with plants as the medium and people as participants rather than just viewers. A collaborative process has emerged involving children and adults from the neighborhood and students from the local high school. Elements of the living art environment include a spiral wildflower path, an earth chair formed from leftover sod, a living willow cove and an herbal “smelly path.” The artist says on her blog “My hope is that this will be a place where people can experience directly the beauty, complexity and healing power of the living world.”
This cache has been placed with permission of the community garden as long as the space is respected. I promised them that geocachers come in peace. Please remember that this is a living and fragile environment. No bushwacking needed.
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