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Host-invited garden site near Gage Ave, Bell, CA 90201

Build a barrier-lined community garden bed with imported soil.

A worker lays landscape fabric over paved ground, frames a twelve-inch-deep bed on top, and fills it with certified imported soil and compost at Host-invited garden site near Gage Ave. Read all of it

Not funded yet. Settles as earned credit, $220 proposed.

Proof it takes, the deadline, the level
  • ProofBarrier, soil-label, and planted-bed photos
  • Open until2026-12-25
  • Levelintermediate
All of it: the words, the place, the proof

Set up a barrier-lined community garden bed with certified imported soil at a host-invited site in Bell, CA. Bell's families want growing space, but the city sits in the Exide fallout footprint, so any bed has to be built lead-safe. One more properly built bed is one more family growing food safely above the ground.

Offer to pay $220. The receipt lands onchain once the proof is approved.

What it looks like
A worker lays landscape fabric over paved ground, frames a twelve-inch-deep bed on top, and fills it with certified imported soil and compost at Host-invited garden site near Gage Ave.

A description of this kind of work, not a record that it happened here.

Where
Host-invited garden site near Gage Ave, Bell, CA 90201. Open the map
Pay
$220 proposed

This job is not funded yet, so this figure is a proposed price, not money held for the worker. If a buyer funds it, approved proof settles that price onchain. If nobody funds it, approved proof earns provable credit toward the work instead of cash: recorded, and readable any time at vealth.net/labor/credit/(your wallet). You see which before you claim, never after.

Proof
Barrier, soil-label, and planted-bed photos

This is exactly what gets it approved. Nothing settles without it.

Level
intermediate
Open until
2026-12-25
Posted by
0x034F…6c89

The creator wallet. Its signature is what approves proof and settles the wage.

Safety, read before you claim

After the crew's safety orientation, get the owner's and manager's written consent first, never dig before an honored 811 locate, and use only untreated lumber and labeled fill soil, never site soil. Wear eye protection and gloves, team-lift soil and lumber, and keep water and shade close in the heat. Wear closed-toe boots. Stop outdoor work when the AQI passes 150.

The full safety list for this job:

  • Occupant or host-invited work only, never enter a property uninvited.
  • Never dig or disturb native soil, imported media only, contained in the lined bed, gloves and closed shoes with hand-washing before eating.
  • Use no pallets, railroad ties or treated wood, and use fill soil that comes with a supplier's test or label; reject anything oily, smelly or full of trash. Wear closed-toe boots, cut lumber on a stable bench with the blade guard on, and team-lift the soil and lumber, because a 4 by 8 foot bed takes over a ton. Keep drinking water and shade within reach in the heat. Site the bed where it gets six hours of sun, keep a clear 36 inch path to it, and stay off septic lines, gas meters and the property line. Build 4 feet wide at most so a person can reach the middle, and 8 feet long at most. Use untreated redwood, cedar or Douglas fir 2 by 10 or 2 by 12 with exterior screws and a 4 by 4 post inside each corner. Staple 1/2 inch hardware cloth under the frame where gophers live. Ask the soil or compost supplier for a lab report or a testing seal and whether the compost was tested for persistent herbicide. Fill in lifts and settle with water; mix roughly one third finished compost to two thirds topsoil by volume, never straight compost. On asphalt or concrete the bed needs drainage holes and a barrier.
  • Site briefing and who holds the 811 ticket (Title 8 section 3203).
  • A quart of water an hour, shade at 80 degrees F and above, watch each other at 95 and above; hauling soil in July is hard work in heat (Title 8 section 3395).
  • Check the air index; at 151 or more ask for an N95 (Title 8 section 5141.1).
  • Eye protection for every saw and drill job, guards on, GFCI or cordless on any outdoor circuit, and hearing protection for a circular saw (Title 8 section 3382).
  • Use a wheelbarrow or cart, fill in lifts, and team-lift lumber; share the shoveling (Title 8 section 3203).
  • Call 811 before a post hole, wait the two working days, and hand-dig within 24 inches of any mark (Title 8 section 1541).
  • Wet the soil and compost before pouring, and use a fit-tested respirator under the employer's respiratory protection program, with a medical evaluation first, for cutting redwood or cedar and for pouring dry soil or compost; stop if dust still rises, because a dust mask is not protection (Title 8 section 5144).
  • Gear, Title 8 sections 3385 and 3384: safety-toe boots for falling lumber and nails underfoot; leather gloves for splinters and nails.
How this work is done

How this work is done

A documented method, so this packet comes out the same whoever does it.

Bring

  • a watering can to water in a starter crop
  • eye protection
  • ear plugs
  • a fit-tested respirator under the employer's program (Title 8 section 5144; an N95 is voluntary use with the Appendix D notice)
  • work gloves
  • closed-toe boots
  • tape measure and carpenter's square
  • level
  • cordless drill and driver, hand saw or circular saw
  • exterior screws
  • 1/2 inch hardware cloth and a staple gun or snips
  • wheelbarrow or garden cart
  • shovel
  • hat, sunscreen and a quart of water an hour

Steps

  1. Get the owner's or manager's consent in writing, from both owner and tenant or manager, to build at the place this job's title names. Site each bed for six hours of sun, clear of meters, hydrants, the alley and the property line, with a 36 inch path to it and water within reach.
  2. Confirm the bed spot with the site host on covered or paved ground.
  3. Lay permeable landscape fabric across the footprint and assemble a frame at least twelve inches deep.
  4. Frame each bed with untreated redwood, cedar or Douglas fir, 2 by 10 or 2 by 12, exterior screws and corner posts, no wider than 4 feet. Lay 1/2 inch hardware cloth under it where gophers live. Use no pallets (check for a heat-treated stamp), railroad ties or treated wood.
  5. Fill each bed with raised-bed mix that has the supplier's label or test, about one third finished compost, filled in lifts and settled with water. Aim for 12 inches of fill (8 inches is the floor for herbs and greens only) and write down the fill depth. Do not use soil from the site or free construction fill.
  6. Soak each bed fully with water, wait 30 minutes, and check whether any water is standing; write down the result. If water stands, open drainage holes or check the barrier before leaving.
  7. Level the frame before it is filled, then lay a level across each framed, filled bed and check it again.
  8. Plant and water in a starter crop with the host.
  9. Photograph the fabric barrier, soil labels, and planted bed with date and GPS.

What counts as done

  • Photo of the base barrier before filling
  • Photo of soil bag labels or delivery slip
  • GPS-tagged photo of the finished planted bed with date
  • The soil supplier's receipt or label.
  • The fill depth, with a ruler in the soil.
  • The drainage result, with a timestamp.
  • Photos show no treated or painted wood, no pallet stamps, no bed too wide to reach across, no bed on bare concrete with no drainage and no soil that looks like site fill.

Proof is measured against these, not judged by taste.

The standard this serves

Edible Garden Cultivation. Edible garden cultivation is food growing done to the standards the land-grant universities have refined for a century: healthy soil in tested beds, the right crop in the right season, hand tools, patience, and records. Mastery looks like a Master Gardener's plot, beds that feed a family most of the year from a piece of ground the size of a parking space. Every gardener who reaches that point started with a single bed and a single season. This packet is that start: one bed built or tended properly, one honest note about what happened.

What is promised, and what is not

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