Healing Gardens

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WEEK 2

Date: 3/11/07

Time Spent: 1 hr

Area: Procurement

Partners: Allyson and Sherry

Activities: Talked over plans for the quarter, looked through notebooks related to our area.

Learning: Learned that you can pick plants from state forests if you have a permit and Allyson knows where to get one. Also, Sherry has many plants on her land that we will be able to take advantage of.

Questions/Needs: Need that permit to procure plants from the Capital Forest.

 

Date: 4/17/07

Time Spent: 4 hrs

Area: Procurement

Partners: None

Activities: Hiked through the woods of Capital Forest and found a few plants that might make good transplants.

Learning: Identified a new favorite plant, our local version of the shamrock, the redwood sorrel! I was so happy when I saw it, it's just like my South American shamrock that I have in my house and I just couldnt believe I had never seen one before. Also found Elderberry, lots of trillium, and got a general idea for the kind of vegetation that is in that area so that when someone asks for something specific, I'll already know if it is there.

Questions/Needs: Still need to find out how to get that procurement permit.

 

TOTAL HOURS THIS WEEK: 5

 

WEEK 3

Date: 4/21/07

Time Spent: Class time

Area: Procurement, Mixed Forest A

Partners: Allyson, Sebastian

Activities: Allyson and I went on a procurement journey through Evergreen roadways. Sebastian and I worked on sprucing up Mixsed Forest A

Learning: Found out that there are lots of plants we can use for the garden right here on campus! To name a few, Vanilla Leaf, Bleeding Heart, Trillium, False Lilly of the Valley, Elderberry, and more. Got to know Sebastian a little better and learned the difference between the conquest-based male approach to weeding (pull everything out and replant) and the nurturing female approach (carefully pull the undesired species out and leave the rest alone!).

Questions/Needs: Better equipment for gathering plants so that we can get them with the dirt still around them.

 

Date: 4/24/07

Time Spent: 7 hrs

Area: Procurement in Capital Forest

Partners: None

Activities: I hiked through Capital Forest all day in search of procurables.

Learning: Found lots of great plants and spent a beautiful day in the woods. The two most exciting discoveries this time were lots and lots of false lillies of the valley and a giant patch of wild ginger. Also there were lots of fairybells, elderberry, and a little corydalis, plus everything I have found on previous trips. This outing is journaled with more information about it there.

Questions/Needs: I need to figure out how to get a local procurement permit and how much it will cost. This permit is different I think from the other one we need ...

 

TOTAL HOURS THIS WEEK: 7

 

WEEK 4

Date: 4/25/07

Time Spent: 1 hr

Area: Procurement at my house

Partners: None

Activities: Looked around my property for possible plants to procure.

Learning: I already knew we had a bunch of Thimbleberry but turns out we also have some Lupine. There seems to be plenty of Lupine in the garden already but if not, I have a little here. Later in the summer there will be pineapple weed, but not sure if this would be a desirable plant to have in the LHG.

Questions/Needs: Are any of these plants needed at the LHG?

 

TOTAL HOURS THIS WEEK: 1

WEEK 5

Date: 5/8/07

Time Spent: 4 hrs

Area: Procurement at Evergreen

Partners: Lorn and Sebastian

Activities: Had a good time scavenging Evergreen for plants Sebastian needs in his area. Planted bleeding heart, vanilla leaf, inside out flower, and false lilly of the valley.

Learning: Found a plant by the beach that smells really good and looks like False Solomon's seal! Also located more false lilly of the valley on campus. Found out there is a cool 3 story tree house in the woods, which we climbed up into.

Questions/Needs: Is the beach plant really false solomon's seal.

 

TOTAL HOURS THIS WEEK: 4

 

WEEK 6

Date: 5/12/07

Time Spent: 2 hrs

Area: Procurement near Skok and planting at Evergreen

Partners: Allyson, Adam, and Mike

Activities: Searched the side of the road on the way back from Sayuyay for plants, found Bear Grass!

Learning: Bear Grass smells really good! What a cool plant. Planted it in the prairie and wapato in the muck of the shady seasonal creek and the open streambank.

Questions/Needs: None.

 

TOTAL HOURS THIS WEEK: 2

 

WEEK 7

Date: 5/18/07

Time Spent: 7 hrs

Area: Sayuyay, surrounding areas of Skok, and LHG

Partners: Allyson, Lizzy, and Alix

Activities: Spent a few hours weeding at Sayuyay with Allyson, Lizzy and Alix and then Allyson and I took a drive and procured many plants in the neighboring area. We came back to Evergreen afterwards and did some planting.

Learning: Found lots of great plants, including yellow iris (mud banana), cow parsnip, devil's club, corydalis, false solomon's seal, etc.

 

Date: 5/19/07

Time spent: 1.5 hrs

Area: Skok and LHG

Partner: Allyson

Activities: Procured along HWY 101, cleaned up behind the longhouse and made a list of tools.

Learning: Found lots of bunchberry! My favorite discovery however was some sort of wild sage growing in a clearcut. I brought one home and put it in my garden and it seems to be doing well. We also found a Vancouver groundcone which is a parasitic thing that looks really strange, kind of like an orchid and kind of like a fungus. Superweird, there was only one of them. So much beargrass too! We got some serviceberry as well and I also found out that I have serviceberry growing in my yard.

 

TOTAL HOURS THIS WEEK: 8.5

 

WEEK 8

Date: 5/25/07

Time Spent: 10 hrs

Area: Along Olympic Peninsula

Partners: Allyson

Activities: Scouted for plants, procured plants, planning and review over lunch, plant watering, plant potting and sign-making

Learning: We found less plants today than expected, not near as many (that we didnt already have) up near Chimacum, we found way more at Skok. However, we did come across Rattlesnake Plantain which was exciting and we also saw a bunch of Rhodies but they were too big to take.

 

Date: 5/29/07

Time Spent: 2.5 hrs

Area: LHG

Partners: Allyson and Marlow

Activities: Watering

Learning: People arent watering their plants ...

 

TOTAL HOURS THIS WEEK: 12.5

 

WEEK 9

Date: 5/30/07 and 5/31/07

Time Spent: 5 hrs

Area: LHG

Partners: Sebastian and Lorn

Activities: Watering, planting

Learning: The wand attachment for the hose makes watering a lot easier! Enjoyed spending time in the garden during these sunny days.

 

Date: 6/3/07

Time Spent: 4 hrs

Area: sayuyay

Partner: Alix

Activities: Weeding

Learning: Enjoyed talking to Alix while we weeded.  Learned that she makes some awesome fried oysters! 

 

TOTAL HOURS THIS WEEK: 9

TOTAL HOURS TO DATE: 49