Breaking Ground: Part I

Tomorrow is a big day for the New Norris House Landscape. Our team has been working to gather all the materials, get all the drawings finalized, and rally volunteers for our first big work day in the backyard. Thanks to the hard work Blake French did over the past week getting our terraced bioretention beds roughly graded and to the continued guidance from Alan Messler and Rick Cawston at Deltalok, we are ready to start installing the retaining walls that make up one of our biggest design features in the landscape. We look forward to having volunteer workers join us tomorrow as we fill 300 Deltalok bags with a special soil mix, and then stack them to form a series of retaining walls. It's not going to be easy - when full each bag weighs about 70 pounds, and unfortunately that is not an April Fools joke! We will post a full report of our work day including before and after pictures soon, so watch for Breaking Ground: Part 2!