Bungang Araw Backyard Garden

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* Every Wednesday, I go on a gardening marathon with my backyard gardening friends. So far we've been working on two gardens for the last two weeks: Dan's Garden Stujo (DGS) and Bungang Araw Backyard Garden (BABG). Last Wednesday, we went to another friend's place to start a third backyard garden with a permaculture design. 

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* Maya of BABG gave me an initial design for her garden. I just edited it to fit a design strategy that upholds permaculture principles. Maya has all the elements needed for a self-sufficient home but there's one major problem: the garden next to her sprays pesticides and uses synthetic fertilizer.

It's either we convince them to stop doing it or we establish a very very dense buffer zone to separate her garden from theirs. 

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* The name of Maya's garden came from her sun-shaped raised beds design. But it's kinda crazy because "Bungang Araw" means "heat rash" in Tagalog. Anyway, she said it's intended to be a pun for her fruit-bearing raised beds and the actual heat rash you get from gardening. 

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* Hopefully all of the gardens and farms that's I'm helping right now will be ready for planting by the second or third week of June.