Equipment loaded for transport and ready to work up new garden plots

for the Detroit Earthworks Urban Garden Project.

Ray Teut and Al Bert, our skilled operators.

Dennis Derby, Ray Teut and Al Bert; fueling up for the working ground.

On the left is Dennis Derby driving the 1969 Massey Furgeson 135 tractor from Earthworks with Ray Teut in the background driving his Kubota TL420 tractor to turn up a former house site next to the Earthworks Headquarters on Maxwell street in Detroit.

Large chunks of concrete, brick and reinforcing rod needed to be picked out of the ground as the tractors turned them above ground.

Dennis and Ray race each other the length of the Maxwell St lot; a very slow race where the quality of the ground is the prize-winner.

Ray continuing the first break-up of ground.

Ray and Dennis turning ground with Al picking large chunks out of turned ground.

Ray turning the next site on Maxwell and Kerchival, with the Capuchin church in the background.

Ray at the Kerchival lot.

Ray and Dennis finishing up the Kerchival lot to a ‘plush’

consistency, ready for eager plants to spread their roots.

Ray and Dennis pausing next to a site before reloading the equipment for transport to the next garden site to be worked

Rocks and construction material were cleared from the Maxwell street site while the tractors worked the Kerchival site in preparation for a final run to make another run through the garden.

Ray making final runs through Maxwell street

Ray making final runs through Maxwell street

Dennis making final passes at Maxwell; the seedling greenhouse for the plants used in the Earthworks Project is in the background.

Both Ray and Dennis doing a final pass on Maxwell St.

The urban garden group members who helped to clear the large chunks of debris and further prepare the Maxwell St. site.

Urban gardeners who really want to be farmers get the feel of the tractor.

Urban gardeners who really want to be farmers get the feel of the tractor.

Urban gardeners who really want to be farmers get the feel of the tractor.

A group of dedicated urban gardeners who worked so hard to clear the

Maxwell St. site; with the urban gardening master himself, Patrick

Crouch on the right of the group who engineered the idea of coordinated efforts between Earthworks and the Farm Museum.

Our hard-working farmers, reloaded and chained down for transport after preparing two sites and ready to move on to the next community garden location.

Dennis on the Capuchin Massey Furgeson 135, working up the Georgia Street site.

Dennis on the first passes at the Georgia St. site

The new Georgia St. community garden site with ‘plush’ ground for new community roots to grow.

Equipment arrives for the fourth site to be worked on the Edgeton St. park site.

First passes of the Edgeton St. Adopt-A-Park site; a very big garden site.

Passes continue for the first break up of the Edgeton St. site.

Dennis on the Massey Furgeson; which is running like a champ!

Final passes for the Edgeton St. garden site.

Ray takes care of some of the tight corners for maximum growing space.

An urban gardener holding the next generation and our tilling crew after a long, hot day of preparing garden sites.

Loading equipment at the end of the day for transport back to the museum with the benefit of having created 4 new community garden sites.

Loading equipment at the end of the day for transport back to the museum with the benefit of having created 4 new community garden sites.