MLK+Day+of+Service+at+Good+Hope+Farm

On January 15, 2018 I went to Good Hope Farms in Cary, NC to aid them in doing basic maintenance and other farm work. This farm collaborates with Town of Cary and other non profit organizations that do loads of charity work for the community. There was over 50 volunteers I saw during the morning shift for the two acres. The main objective we were instructed to evenly distribute large piles of mulch (photo to the right) around the outside fences and evenly distribute large piles of compost (photo to the left) in the middle of the field. The compost was distributed to promote grass growth and create fertile soil, while the mulch was placed on the outside edge to prohibit plant growth around the fencing.

My job was to distribute the mulch along the fencing. The fencing seemed to keep out animals because it was electric fencing (it was turned off while we did the leveling of mulch). There were groups of people with wheel barrels who walked back and forth from the mulch piles to where we were and dumped small piles of mulch for us to spread out. My group consisted of 7 people, including myself. We used pitchforks, garden rakes and shovels to; push pull and dump mulch into thick leveled land. The most difficult parts about this was the weather and as we'd move along down the fence we only had one pile of mulch and the wheel barrels started coming at longer intervals so we weren't doing as much movement, making us colder.