friends of the SALT Beyoğlu staff help out with planting

…was a gradual process today as heavy bags of fresh Turkish forest soil, compost, worm castings, and wood shavings (to loosen and lighten the soil) slowly made their way up to our sixth floor roost in the rooftop hothouse at SALT Beyoğlu to fill the large planters constructed with the reclaimed 4×4 lumber previously used for the building construction scaffolding – in the mean time we busied ourselves with a collection of seedlings and starts in their temporary housing of water bottles and gorgeous golden sunflower oil cans (collected by the sweet people at our daily lunch hang out) to be dramatically displayed on scavenged wood crate pedestals for now – and until they go into their permanent homes in the perimeter planting beds and local Istanbul gardening/farming/food folks want to take over the central space for some other experiment or activities.