Week Three! Garden Duty, Plants, and Me! Oh, My!

I tried my hardest to play off a Wizard of Oz Reference in this post' title. Not sure if anyone caught that. It's okay if you didn't. My last few posts have been a little dry, that's because I've been studying hard for another class which I had an exam for this week. I think it's awfully surprising how quickly this semester has been trudging along. There's so much our IPRO wants to do but we have to be realistic with the goals we set for ourselves.

For Monday's garden duty Hannah and I split up the watering again. While one of us was watering, the other was weeding. As I was going around the farm I was amazed to see how much everything had grown in the short time we've been working on this IPRO. Lots of plants were fruiting already such as the peas, kale, leafy greens, bok choy, and numerous small tomatoes have been popping around everywhere! They're all little green ones but I take a lot of pride of being a part of the maintance for these fruiting plants.

Yesterday in class our IPRO became more organized. At the end of class we discussed goals for the IPRO and individual committees, as well as adjusted team members based on who was still left in the class. After class was over, a few of us stayed longer to plant the remaining plants. We put more peppers in hoop house and some tomatoes on the south side fences--I had to transplant some flowers to north fence on opposite side where the strawberries are being planted in order to do this. More herbs were planted on the west fence and the beds were filled as well. So the farm right now, has a high amount of producing plants in it right now.

Next week is already midterm review presentation. Since I've moved to the Farm Planning team I've been organizing the presentation for that. Hopefully I can have it done before the weekend is over.

What I like about this class is that I really am learning alot. Learning how to grow my own food and being able to do that myself has been really helpful. I recently moved out of on campus housing. Ok, maybe that recently but I don't have meals ready for me at a consistent time which means I've had to learn how to plan and cook my own meals (and make sure it's enough!). The learning curve was pretty steep but seven months out and I think I'm doing fairly well. The problem is that food can be pretty expensive. Coupled with living expsenses, sometimes food gets placed on the backburner. And that shouldn't be the case. Being able to grow own food allows me to save more (granted it takes awhile for them to be producing). If only you could grow meat.

Sorry guys, no pictures in this one. I didn't take much. So here's a picture of a cute bunny: