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Selected work

Useful ground, built one property at a time.

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Raised-bed projects from the working archive.

What the photographs establish

Proof, without borrowed claims.

Construction
A deep timber bed built by hand.
Installation
Beds positioned, filled, and finished on residential lawns.
Scale
Documented work ranging from one bed to a three-bed layout.

01 / Raised-bed system

A multi-bed layout for productive backyard ground.

Three timber beds arranged and filled to create a connected growing area with room to move and work between them.

Central Alabama · Selected predecessor work

Three filled timber raised beds with young plants on a sunny lawn.
Three timber raised beds during installation on a backyard lawn.

Installation stage

A completed timber raised garden bed on a fenced lawn in Helena, Alabama.

02 / Raised-bed installation · 2020

A first bed for a Helena backyard.

A finished timber growing bed installed on a fenced residential lawn.

Mike Shaner working with a shovel inside a large timber raised garden bed.

03 / Custom raised bed

The build is part of the proof.

Hands-on construction of a deep timber bed sized for the available yard.

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