The Dakota Garden

GreenShed Bed's are in Bloom!

Wow Great work done by our volunteers in the community....
Awesome to have the grade 1's, 6/7 and few of the Grade 9 be involved with the growth of Spring!

SBDN GreenShed and Garden Work Party!

You're all invited to join us on the weekend of April 14th and 15th for a work party to complete the GreenShed, plant the Saskatoon berry orchard and build and plant the community garden! We are the proud recipients of a 2012 Walmart Evergreen Green Grant which enables us to implement the garden and orchard project. We welcome all level of skills - we need those with skills to share, but we also have lots of tasks for those who want to learn and help. And if you can lift a shovel, help children paint signs or are an expert chef who would like to keep everyone going with yummy treats - come on down! And since this is a party - not just work - we will have music, food, coffee, sharing, learning and fun! See you there!

Nov 27 - Day 3

We started the final day of the build by installing the retro-fitted windows, finishing the roof, insulating and sheathing the interior and finalizing some finicky details. After a great weekend of building we've seen substantial changes in the GreenShed; just the framing and finishing of the end walls remain before the greenhouse is a warm, cozy place for plants.

 a few more roof panels needed

installing insulation and vapour barrier

finishing the interior with plywood 

the greenshed two mornings ago

parting shots... 

Sept 26 - Day 2

The 2nd day of the build started with a delicious community breakfast prepared by members of the Planning Work Group. The warm meal helped take some of the chill out of the cold, blustery morning.

Today's work included cladding the south wall and roof in red corrugated steel, finishing the double layer of polycarbonate glazing, framing the west end wall and retrofitting smashed windows with leftover poly. We also rescued a few of the flood-damaged raised beds from the berm and worked well into the night on interior elements

building paper attached - it's cold up here!

bed rescued from berm

end wall installed

cladding

cutting poly to fit

a finicky interior layer of poly is installed

roofing continues...

custom sliding doors

retro-fitting windows

GreenShed Build Continues - Nov 25

Work has recommenced on the Standing Buffalo Dakota Nation GreenShed. The community garden/GreenShed site suffered damage during last spring's flood and several steps in the construction sequence remained to be completed. The GreenShed will be used to grow veggies throughout the winter, to start transplants to be moved into the summer garden and to grow heat-loving veggies, like peppers and tomatoes, through the hot months of high summer.


Construction began with an inventory of on-site materials and assessment of the existing structure. The stuccoed, straw bale panels stand strong after their first Saskatchewan winter and remain a promising addition to straw bale technology and prairie vernacular architecture. Today's work included repairing and installing strapping, sheathing the building exterior with plywood and installing polycarbonate panels in the greenhouse.

weathered but standing strong

roof work begins

plywood sheathing

interior rooms take form

polycarbonate panels installed

progress...

a gorgeous Qu'appelle Valley sunset

Standing Buffalo Flood Pictures!