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Historical Photos

Some of the original “campers”
The meadow at 131 Camp Joy Rd before the garden was put in.
The new barn before the fire
The building of the big house
Arial view of the garden that was featured on the cover of Organic Gardening Magazine
The finished house from the garden
Cressie Digby the original owner of the property in the garden.
View of the greenhouse in the spring from the center of the garden.
Michael Stusser climbed up to get an aerial view from atop the tallest redwood of the garden, about 3 years after we arrived to transform the four acres (1974).
Little Robby Lovejoy with donkeys, St. John and Tom, around 1973. They hauled the shakes cut on Ben Lomond mountain to make the original roof on the big house. The crooked house with the sunflower windmill in the background was built by Eddie Odlum.
Garden path leading to the redwood tree and Pancho Vacha’s tipi.
The wood to build the gazebo and later the rose and grape arbors, came from Reinelt’s Begonia gardens in Capitola.