The Time i Got Ticked Off by Weeds

This is the entrance to LEAF and what do you know THERE WAS A SIGN! Too bad it's too small...

It was about 9 o'clock in the morning. For my volunteer job I was to work at a garden/nursery area called LEAF (Local Ecology and Agriculture Fremont).  LEAF participates in growing local, organic food and plants. You can weed, water, plant, harvest, transplant, compost and much more at this facility. LEAF addresses social interests including health and hunger/food.  I arrived at the area on Niles Blvd. But I couldn't find it for a few minutes because there was no sign for the location anywhere. Then this woman (I'm going to call her W because I never asked her name) noticed my work gloves in my pocket and escorted me to this location that was so obscure that you would never guess that LEAF was literally a garden.

The head gardener, Bruce Cates greeted me as I walked in. W told him I was one of the volunteers. So Bruce just showed us our little workstation. In the corner of the garden, W and I had to shovel and pick out weeds.
Bruce identified what to pick out and not to pick out. I must say, weed pulling is so much tougher than it sounds and looks. Anyone could be thinking, oh it's just some overgrown grass no problem! Well weeds aren't just grass. In fact they are pretty much plants themselves. So their roots can go REALLY deep and you have to use a shovel/rake to get at the bottom of the root before pulling it out. Even THAT wasn't easy. There was even one that took like 10 minutes! With such a tough job a little mood lifting had to be done. W and I conversed throughout the job. I told her about how I am actually getting graded for volunteering. W is from out of town and that she actually took about 6 years of college (or 9...I forget). 3 years in junior and the rest in university (or this other thing).

Together, through the two hours of battling hardships of deep-rooted weeds, we managed to completely clean up our post and rid them of weeds. Oh and silly ol' me had an allergy attack so I had to put up with it as well.
I could have stayed longer but I at least wanted 2 hours in and then just hightail it out of there. Reflecting the image we saw then to the image we saw before we began working really blew our minds. As I walked out the gate, I think about the area that was weeded, thinking, that maybe that spot will be used to grow some more organic produce and plants. Well, to be brutally honest, I'm not working there again because I don't want any allergies.