I’m really mad this morning, I got an email in from our garden coordinator that major vandalism has occurred at the millwoods plot, broken plants, broken tomato cages, greenhouse glass broken etc and all the gardens apparently got hit. I will be going in after work to take pictures and assess what needs to be rebuilt and replanted in our plot. So much money and value was so senselessly destroyed. What the **** is wrong with people!!!
That’s about $1000 spent on setup I think (now I have to go over my receipts in detail and do the accounting) in parts and labour now. It took us days and days of long hours after work to build what we had there, for the purpose of feeding our family over the winter. I’m going to have to explain to Davin why his planted squares are wrecked and he’s going to be heartbroken. If we didn’t have our Camrose garden things would look pretty dire right now. That vandal deserves a beating to within an inch of his/her/their life for it, but I don’t have much hope the police will catch him/her/them.
I hadn’t expected such a loss with our first efforts at a garden and it reinforces with me that the city with so many people is just not the place to be growing veggies in peace. If I had the money right now, I’d purchase land and move on it today and replant there instead….with big guard dogs and electric fencing. why can’t people just leave the gardens alone?
I will post pictures tonight of the damage, and find out when we can get in to replant and rebuild. I guess I’m going to have to go really cheap now since the budget is gone for more supplies and we’ll have to use what we have. Thank-you Camrose guy who donated us the rolls of stucco wire, and the Construction site in Edmonton for donating wood!
