For Queen Anne’s Lucien Wulsin, Gilman Urban Gardens appeared to be the perfect opportunity.
Wulsin, 16, was looking for a project to complete his work to become an Eagle Scout. Last March, he got in touch with Charlie Hoselton, the director and coordinator for the Gilman Urban Gardens, located at Gilman Drive West and 14th Avenue West. The two agreed that the gardens site would make a great Eagle Scout project.
The result was that this past weekend, Wulsin gathered family, friends, members of Scout troop 72, even his sister, and completed laying the foundation for a community strawberry and blueberry patch that people can walk through and enjoy.
Just a few months before, the patch of land was covered in blackberry bushes. Hoselton and his team took out most of the blackberry bushes. On June 11, Wulsin and about 20 of his helpers joined Hoselton and other members of the Gilman Urban Gardens organization to transform the formerly trash and bramble covered hillside section of the boulevard into a pedestrian access public fruit garden.
Wulsin and his crew cleared the land and dug a path that zigzags down the boulevard hillside. Then strawberry and blueberry plants were planted along the trail. Short retaining walls along the path were created with concrete and branches found on the site. Wood chips were laid down on the path, creating a functional urban fruit garden.
“This project is one that will help the neighborhood and hopefully, be here for years to come,” Wulsin said.
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