Community Work Day at Full Bloom

Every month at Full Bloom we host a “Community Work Day” where all the individuals living at Full Bloom  focus on an area of the community we want to improve or beautify.  Our teamwork gets the job done in a relaxed fashion and deepens our relationships with each other and the land.  In past work days we have built steps down to dwellings and “sheet mulched” an area for planting in the spring.

During this month’s work day we a began the process of creating a “living roof” for one of the dwellings. We formed a bucket brigade, hauling bucket after bucket up ladders to the roof to be dumped.  The roof was already covered with pond liner to keep any moisture from coming through.  Later we will seed the roof with grass and some drought tolerant flowers like poppies and it will burst forth with life, blending into the landscape.

Employing different natural building techniques such as a living roof helps us accomplish our vision of creating a community that meshes with the natural landscape, a “permaculture” community.  We are no “Shire” yet, but moving in that direction.

“No house should ever be on any hill, it should be of the hill, belonging to it, so hill and house could live together, each the happier for the other.”  Frank Loyd Wright