Project Log
| Date | Hours | Activity | Total Hours |
| 1 oct | .15 | harvest fest-with dull knives and sticky spoons, i opened and emptied pumpkins palettes to be carved by eager young artists | .25 |
| 8 oct | 1.5 | initial visit to skokomish reservation-travelled to reservation to visit gifts of first peoples garden | 1.75 |
| 14 oct | 2.5 | introduction to gifts of first peoples garden-we met with Sonja Gee and together walked this sacred space, learning its layout, of its evolution through the years, and our role and purpose in working here: to tend the plants, cutting them back and weeding in order to put the garden asleep for the winter | 3.25 |
| 16 oct | 3 | first day of working in garden-i cut back Convallaria majalis (lily of the valley), Echinacea purpurea (echinacea) , Ruta graveolens (rue), Baptista tinctoria (wild indigo) , and Leonurus cardiaca (motherwort). | 6.25 |
| 16 oct | 2 | plant harvest and fiber dyeing-while weeding our home garden, i harvested Taraxacum officinalis (dandelion), greens for eating and roots for dyeing. I gathered the root, chopped it, soaked it for two days, and dyed cotton fabric and maguey fibers (from Mexico) in exploring native plant dyes. | 2 |
| 17 oct | 4 | observing lynn semega's kindergarten class at lincoln elementary | 12.25 |
| 17 oct | .5 | introduction to early release program at lincoln elementary-conversed with coordinator Susan Gresia regarding opportunity to facilitate self-designed activity for group of students | 12.75 |
| 21 oct | 3 | kindergarten-i helped students with leaf print activity, cleaned up after snack time, monitored kids during recess, played with parachute | 15.75 |
| 21 oct | 2.5 | early release program-helped lincoln parent alka who lead cooking activity of samosas | 17.25 |
| 21 oct | 4 | garden tending-continued working in south bed containing plants of cardiovascular, immune, and reproductive benificence; cut back Tanacetum vulgare (tansy), Gaultheria shallon (salal); collected Nepeta catara (catnip), Rosmarinus officinalis (rosemary), coastal mugwort, tansy | 21.25 |
| 22+23 oct | 10.75 | biodynamic skillshare- i participated in a weekend of plant learning, with discussion of scientific and spiritual theory behind Rudolf Steiner's biodynamic agriculture and practical exploration of related preparations | 23 |
| 25 oct | 3 | kindergarten-i attended weekly school assembly with students and helped teacher Michael during music + science class | 26 |
| 26 oct | 3 | dye bath prep + mordanting- i began the dye process, cooking salal leaves, and mordanting fiber for later coloring | 29 |
| 2 nov | 3 | kindergarten-i helped children with number counting activity, played a matching game and in the kitchen, poured water during snack, and worked with a group of four kids as they counted to 100 and worked on number identification skills; looked through lynn's library, searching for books on nature art projects | 32 |
| 4 nov | 1 | seeking of gardening tools with elizabeth | 33 |
| 4 nov | 3 | curriculum research~I read the book Seven Times the Sun, Guiding Your Child Through the Rhythms of the Day by Shea Darian and I immersed myself in the though of ritual, and its presence (and often lack of reverence) in my own life, as well as its presence in the lives of the children that I know |
37 |
| 4 nov | 2 | anthroposophy lecture at olympia waldorf school | 39 |
| 10 nov | 3 | classroom observation of allyson- I observed the students in Wendy Frankel-Reed’s K-1 class while Allyson led a faerie activity, consisting of a story and the construction of faerie houses |
42 |
| 11 nov | 3 | gardening with the rains-Jennifer, Stacey, and I tended beds during a powerfully wet Friday morning. I focused on plants surrounding the willow tree in the dye bed, carefully cutting back plant people, with particular consideration as I could not positively identify most of them |
45 |
| 12 nov | 2 | medicine making-i made a tincture of dandelion root, dug from walnut garden, and helped my housemate alex garble lobaria pulmonaria (lungwort) and lobaria oregona (lettuce lung) for tincture preparation | 47 |
| 18 nov | 2 | school assembly with folksinger | 49 |
| 21 nov | 3 | lincoln fieldtrip to kennedy creek to observe salmon spawning | 52 |
| 22 nov | 3 | nature collaging and dancing-my curriculum activity morphed from a mushroom introduction to a fall movement and art piece as I realize i am not proficient enough in fungal identification to formally share with kids and do not desire to pass along misinformation. instead we created with horsetail, western red cedar leaves and bark, calendula petals, salal leaves, and stems of catnip, and danced to the sounds of the Spanish guitar. | 55 |
| 23 nov | 3 | dancing and nature collaging with kindergartners; observation during class's first Spanish lesson with Francisco | 58 |
| 23 nov | 3 | sitting with plants in gifts garden-an unexpected visit to garden helped me to rekindle my emotional connection with the plants | 61 |
