We held our first volunteer meeting at Springbank on Wednesday, May 18th. After some discussion and introductions indoors, we went out to survey the building site. Here is the crew clustered inside the building footprint.
The image above is a view across the building site, with the building footprint superimposed on the ground...
... and here are a couple of pans, showing the views one will see from the two open ends of the building: one view is enclosed by hedgerows, the other opens up over valley.
The fields and hedgerows around the Springbank property were alive with wildlife (and more interesting creatures than the ubiquitous urban squirrels and sparrows). There were a couple of bright orange orioles in the hedgerows, and lots of toads, including this one, who was trying to hide from the camera in the deeply-plowed furrows of the field alongside the community garden.
