The Garden (Chapter One)

I live in a compound. A large fenced in area with a big house in front and a small house (mine) in back. C, one of the big house owners, decided that she wanted a big garden to grow all of our food. There is a big area of land behind my cottage and it was just the right size to feed all of us.
C did most of the work since she is on break from grad school and I have to work all day long. She convinced me that buying the plants would make us work faster, so we bought a bunch of heirloom vegetables at the farmer's market. That, my friends, was the easy part. Next came a week of math. C measured and did a lot of math on construction paper to get the amount of wood and dirt that we would need. After a very exciting Saturday at hardware stores, we were able to start.
We set out all of the wood and all of that colorful math worked its magic. We bought the right amount! We screwed a bunch of them together and cleared as much room as we could before we were too tired and had somewhere else to be.
Later in the week, J and C put the rest of the beds together and C moved 6 cubic yards of dirt by herself. She worked for 12 hours one day and was exausted. This was just the beginning!