The Old Depot Project

The Old Depot Project is an ongoing project I started in 2014 when I rescued an old train depot from Canton, NC. Now it’s become an ongoing restoration and garden project of a 100 year old locomotive sand house. Projects include raised cedar beds, a picket fence, pea gravel installation and more. Currently we are making the old train depot a chicken coop and potting shed combination. Boo thinks it’s a playhouse which works too.

(Note: if links aren’t working you can click here to scroll through the Old Depot posts in blog format.)

A little about the old train depot / sand house that used to serve the Southern Railroad in Canton, NC. It came full of objects including an old Buckeye coal stove and furniture. 

For the garden project we had to level a sloped area of the yard in order to build a picket fence and raised garden beds. Here’s the step-by-step tutorials on how we did it:

I have a new love of gardening. Here are the things I’ve learned along the way!

Converting the old depot “shed” into a combination potting shed and chicken coop.