Mr. Hoffman has completed all the building, the fence, gate and raised boxes. Today the truck comes to deliver our dirt.

Desirae playing in a box. She has the final rock we decided to remove from the ground in that box. And she's eating a Balance bar. To her, those are candy bars!

Here's the truck delivering our steer manure compost.

And there's our stinky pile of dirt. I noticed at first, but the smell went away quickly....I think I may have been used to it in a past life.

My awesome husband started hauling the dirt to the garden with the wheel barrow. The truck driver insisted he had to dump it next to the road instead of the garden, so it gave us(meaning Dave) a bit more of a workout. Each box took 6 wheel barrows loads. Today I planted lettuce and beets. Tomorrow will be spinich and radishes, some cilantro. This is so fun! Desirae was making sand castles in the steer manure compost today. I wasn't sure what to think of that, but we washed up good when we came in. I'm sure children have done it before and survived. I seem to remember surviving quite abit of manure in my past lifetime, being the daughter of a dairy farmer. I felt a bit "city-fied" to actually be paying money for the stuff!