NOTE: DRUPAL DID NOT COPY MY FORMATTING AT ALL, ALTHOUGH IT PRETENDED TO! (MY PREVIEW SHOWED ALL THE SPACING INTACT)
WEEK 2
1/23 Tuesday
Activity: Sat with site and journaled
Time Spent: 2 hrs
Learning: Got to know the layout and presence of the site
better. By journaling, noticed things about Salal that I had
not noticed before.
1/24 Wednesday
Activity: 1st meeting with group members.
Time Spent: 1 hr
Learning: Talked about our assignments for the week. Looked
around the site. Suzanne spoke to us about last quarter's
achievements and we made some plans for this quarter. Decided
to meet every Wednesday.
TOTAL HOURS THIS WEEK: 3
WEEK 3
1/25 Thursday
Activity: Spent time with both ID and medicinal use plant
books.
Time Spent: 2 hrs
Learning: Learned how to make a plant remedy for a condition I
have been treating pharmaceutically (haven't tried this out yet
but will shortly).
1/26 Friday
Activity: Looked through some of site materials online.
Time Spent: 1 hr
Learning: Got a more concrete idea of where we are starting out
from and what our goals are for this quarter.
1/28 Sunday
Activity: Group meeting
Time Spent: 2 hrs
Learning: Worked on twig ID. Suzanne walked around the area
with us and pointed out some plants she had identified from
last quarter.
1/29 Monday
Activity: Looked over Longhouse Garden notebook for Mixed
Forest A.
Time Spent: 1 hr
Learning: Saw the changes that have happened since the time
that notebook was made. Interesting to see how the area
developed and the differences between then and now.
1/30 Tuesday
Activity: Sitting at LHG and reading plant books
Time Spent: 2 hrs
Learning: My Dad loaned me a number of plant books from his
collection and there are some neat ones, including some old
ethnobotany books and a book by Nancy Turner about coastal food
plants. It is nteresting reading about all the uses Native
Americans had for the local plants.
1/31 Wednesday
Activity: Weekly group meeting.
Time Spent: 2 hrs
Learning: Divided up the work for next week and shared
resources/learning we had come up with over the past week,
including texts and websites to use for our area description
and techniques for gardening/pruning.
TOTAL HOURS THIS WEEK: 10 hrs
WEEK 4
2/7 Wednesday
Activity: Weekly group meeting.
Time Spent: 2 hrs
Learning: Mostly hands-on work, including lots of pruning and
raking. Found a wild currant underneath the overgrown foliage!
It had leaned all the way over and was growing sideways due to
overgrowth on top of it so we pulled the invading plants off of
it, pushed it back upright, and set a log behind it to keep it
standing.
TOTAL HOURS THIS WEEK: 2
WEEK 5
2/9 Friday
Activity: Spent more time with plant ID and medicine books.
Time Spent: 1 hr
Learning: More questions than answers today. I don't
understand how one culture uses a plant for one thing while
another culture uses the same plant for something totally
opposite! Is it a question of collective belief in the plant's
medicinal properties that make it work a certain way or is it
just a different application of the same medicine (or perhaps
faulty reporting)? I mean, when one culture uses something for
an abortifacient that another culture uses as a helpful
supplemental herb for pregnant mothers, it just doesn't seem to
make sense ...
2/11 Sunday
Activity: Sitting quietly with area, journaling and reading
Time Spent: 1 hr
Learning: Read about a plant that in small doses gives you
constipation but in large doses is a laxative!
2/13 Tuesday
Activity: Weekly group meeting.
Time Spent: 2 hrs
Learning: No learning persay at this meeting, just did some
physical work on the site today and enjoyed spending time with
the members of my group and our area. I chopped up fallen
limbs with a handsaw and placed them around the trail borders
and sidewalk edges while other group members spread bark mulch,
raked leaves, and did some pruning. Sadly, found out Amanda,
who was in our class at the beginning of Fall quarter, died.
2/14 Wednesday
Activity: Weekly group meeting + journal time.
Time Spent: 2 hrs
Learning: WILL UPDATE AFTER MEETING TOMORROW
TOTAL HOURS THIS WEEK: 6
TOTAL HOURS TO DATE: 21