PINE RIDGE GARDENS

Tom Cook (right), Director of the Pine Ridge organic home gardens project, and his friend Jose "Lupe" Esparza, show off the potting soil.

During the Plenty "Summit" in February attended by two of our Indian friends from Pine Ridge Reservation, a Tennessee biodynamic gardener, Dennis Limon, offered to travel to Pine Ridge and help kick off the spring family gardens season. In March, Dennis and his son Carlos drove their pickup truck to South Dakota with a load of Dennis's organic potting soil. While there they held workshops to teach people how to make their own rich potting soil and made enough for 16,000 seedlings.