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Anna Thirkield Thursday Feb 29: 11:30-3:30/ 4 hrs Sunday April 8, 10-12:30/ 2.5 hrs Wed April 18, 9-12:00/ 3 hrs Thursday April 19 12:30-6/ 5.5 hrs May 3 1-4 p.m./ 3 hrs. May 6 10:30-3/ 3.5 hrs Total: 21.5 hrs May 8 9-12/ 3 hrs Total: 24.5 hrs. May 28 1-5:30/ 4.5 hours Total: 29 hours June 1, 7-8 pm/ 1hr Activites: I organized, and titled my photographs to give to Adam for our presentation. Unfortunately, I had technical difficulties with my video footage and wasn't able to submit that. Total: 30 hours ****************** WINTER LOG ****************** DATE: Thursday January 18 TIME: 11:30-12:30/2-2:45 ACTIVITIES: Visited 25 different websites related to procurement/native plants and requested new catalogs from many of them. I Kept a list of where i had visited and what was important to note about each site. I used the resource list in "Renewing Salmon Nations Food Traditions" by, Gary Paul Nabhan as a guide as well as the Washington Native Plant Society Source list from 2003 which I updated when needed. LEARNING: This was a great way to familiarize myself with these websites and companies, as I plan to go into more detail in the future. It's been inspiration to see how many organizations there are devoted to native plants and restoration work! CUMULATIVE HOURS: 1.75 ..................... DATE: Wednesday, Jan. 24 TIME: 8 am-2pm ACTIVITIES: Alix, Meg, Adam ,Ciara and I met bright and early to drive up to Skokomish. When we arrived, we surveyed the damage to the kiosk and discussed what would be the best way to repair the damage in the short and long term, then we reaquainted ourselves with the plants, and discussed our feelings and shared knowledge with eachother. We met in the circle, and set the intention to pull out the Red Alders that were volunteering themselves. Meg shared her dreams of Red Alder, and we discussed the metaphor and deeper meaning that Red Alder brings to us. We then gathered in in a circle around the firts 2 alders to pull out and sent out love, respect and intentions to remove them from Skokomish and learn to make medecine from them. We worked at that first spot and then found another big patch of new volunteers and pulled those out too. Meg dug up some Yellowdock as well. We then packed them and the tools up in the car and headed back to Olympia. We dropped Adam off at work, and the 4 of us girls returned to my house to start preparing the alders to dry and make medecine. We taught ourselves how to skin the outer bark, discover the inner bark as it turned color, and shaved off as much as we could from what we had gathered. We shared a tea made from Dandelion, yellowdock and burdock. Later that night, I cleaned the Yellowdock Meg had gathered and cut it into smaller pieces to dry. I also made a poultice from the red alder to use on my knee that was aching and it releived the pain and felt euphoric and glowing for about 45 minutes. This day was a wonderful day of working, collecting and preparing medecine. CUMULATIVE HOURS: 7.75 ................................... Sunday Date: Thursday Feb. 8 Time: 8:45-12:00 Activities: Met with Ciara and drove up to Skokomish. On the way up we discussed the new addition of the Plant Info booklets, our future plans and action list as well as the site introduction. Upon arrival at the garden, we found ourcalling for the day and started working. Ciara made the digestive bed look beautiful and well cared for, clearing debris and weeding. I began the process of clearing the edges of the Prarie bed. Then we worked together on clearing the small bed just west of the digestive bed which is home to several soapberry bushes as well as nodding onion, fireweed and lemongrass (we think). It really feels like Im now able to see clearer what needs to be done in the garden, rather than feeling overwhelmed and unsure of where to take action. Learning: Gained familiarity with nodding onion, fireweed and soapberry identification, as well as another opportunity to dig in and get my hands dirty! Cumulative Hours:11 ***** DATE: Saturday Feb 10 TIME: 4:30-5:00 ACTIVITIES: Adam, Meg and I met with Dylan to discuss progress with the Cedar procurement and milling possiblities. We surveyed the site for the sister garden and shared ideas. CUMULATIVE HOURS: 11.5 ................ DATE: Sunday Feb 1 TIME: 1:30-5:00 ACTIVITIES: Met with Adam and Meg and drove to Skokomish. I cleared the south and east beds of weeds, and trimmed back all leftover growth from last season. I continued to clear the West Soapberry Bed and protect as much of the nodding onion as possible. Adam and Meg cut down the big alders growing the berry bed, which was great to see. We also trimmed back the Lavender that was growing over onto the sitting bench. It was raining and quiet, I felt contemplative and glad, for most of the time, to be working in the rain. CUMULATIVE HOURS: 16 ............................ Date: Sunday Feb 18 TIME: 10-2 ACTIVITIES: Met with Alix, Ciara and Adam and drove to Sayuyay. We cleared a berry bed east of the sweetgrass bed, cleaned up fallen limbs from the forest trails, pruned and pulled up alot of horsetail. CUMULATIVE HOURS: 20 .................. DATE: Wednesday Feb 21 TIME: 8:30-4 (only claiming 2 hours) ACTIVITIES:Anamaria and I assisted with counting plants for the annual thurston conservation disctrict native plant sale. Gained familiarity with many conifers, shrubs and deciduous trees in the smallest baby forms. Had nice discussions with the staff members about conservation work, and tidbits about the plants themselves. CUMULATIVE HOURS: 22 .................................. DATE: Thursday Feb 22 TIME: 9-12 ACTIVITIES: Met with Alix and Ciara to discuss our project work and final presentation. Came up with some very creative and deep ideas related to our experiences in the garden, with the plants and with eachother. CUMULATIVE HOURS: 25 ..................................... DATE: Sunday Feb 23 TIME:12-3 ACTIVITIES: Met with Alix, Adam, and Ciara to discuss and prepare our presentation. We came up with several ideas related to a movement/drama oriented production, and discussed theme ideas. We unified our feelings about what our deepest collective experiences were in the garden this quarter and discussed how to present them through metaphor. CUMULATIVE HOURS: 28 ......................... DATE:Monday Feb 24 TIME-3-5:30 ACTIVITIES: Met with Alix on campus to use the photo lab. We surfed the internet to track down photos of the plants in the north, west , south and east beds at sayuyay ( that were legal of course). We planned on using them for our presentation, and for future references. CUMULATIVE HOURS: 30.5 ................................ DATE: Friday March 9 TIME: 8:30-12 ACTIVITIES: Met with Ciara, Alix and Adam to finalize plans for our presentation We worked collectively on the ceremony to dedicate the land for the sister garden and welcome the plants spirits to the site. CUMULATIVE HOURS: 34 ............................... DATE: Saturday March 10 TIME: 8-9:30 ACTIVITIES: Met with Ciara, Alix and Adam to gather Cedar boughs from some fallen limbs near my home. We gathered them thoughtfully and then traveled to the the Longhouse sister garden site to lay out the outline for the garden beds. CUMULATIVE HOURS: 35.5 ......................................... DATE: Sunday March 11 TIME: 12:30-2:30 ACTIVITIES: Met with all group members to finalize plans for formal presentation, Ciara and I were assigned to work together on the powerpoint presentation. I organized photos taken at sayuyay, and labeled them all. CUMULATIVE HOURS: 37.5 ............................... DATE: Tuesday March 13 TIME: 3-6 ACTIVITIES: Met with Ciara to create the powerpoint pesenation. CUMULATIVE HOURS: 40.5 ........................... DATE: Wednesday March 14 TIME: 4:00-5:30 ACTIVITIES: Met with Ciara and Alix to finalize powerpoint and rehearse our presentation. CUMULATIVE HOURS: 42 ............................... DATE: Sunday March 18 TIME: 11:30-4:30 ACTIVITIES: Met with Adam and traveled to sayuyay. We met Craig at noon and discussed our plans for the repair of the Kiosk. Adam and I dig post holes while Craig left to go get the Cedar posts from a nearby clearcut. When he returned, we troubleshooted the plans, to adjust to the situation, and after removing the bark from the cedar buried and cut the new posts, and cut them at an angle to prop up the kiosk. The repair went well and we are all happy with the results. It was great to talk with Craig about his work and experiences. He walked with us around the garden and shared some great stories about the plants and about subiyay. He gave us some good ideas for work that needed to be done. After Craig left, Adam and I continued working, removing more alders, trimming back some vine maples, and weeding the western coltsfoot bed. Adam and I had some great discussions and life, society and gardening, it was a great day. CUMULATIVE HOURS: 47
******************* FALL 2006 LOG ******************* DATE: Monday October 9 TIME:1:30-4:30 ACTIVITIES- Met with Sayuyay Sister Garden Group at TESC and drove to Gifts Garden for the first time. We discussed our initial ideas and reflections on the drive there. Upon arrival, we introduced ourselves to the garden, and navigated our self-tour using the map we were given. We recorded what the plants we saw growing in each and recorded all the infor on the signs posted around the garden. We Discussed what we all knew about the plants we saw. We discussed our response to the trip on the ride home. CUMULATIVE HOURS:3 ....................... DATE: Wednesday October 11 TIME: 4-5:15 ACTIVITIES: Met with Alix at the Longhouse site for the sister garden and wokred on site description. CUMULATIVE HOURS: 4.5 ............................ DATE: Thursday October 12 TIME: 4-4:35 ACTIVITIES: Began Research Online of the medicinal plants from the first aid/respiratory/muscular/skeletal bed at the sayuyay garden. Created a template to record information about the plants. Will continue this project until all plants in the bed are researched. CUMULATIVE HOURS: 5 ........................... DATE: Monday October 16 TIME: 4:30-6:00 ACTIVITES: Attended the Campus Land Use Committee (CLUC) meeting reguarding the sayuyay sister garden development to observe the proceedings and represent student interest in the project CUMULATIVE HOURS:7.5 .............................. DATE: Thursday October 19 Time: 1-2:30 ACTIVITIES: Met with Sharon and Alix to discuss the direction of our group work. Decided to follow the groups interest in the spiritual background of first peoples, as well as continue the study of each plant included in the garden. Shared our ideas about the project so far and set the collective course for the next weeks individual work. CUMULATIVE HOURS: 9 ............................... DATE: Sunday October 22 TIME: 12:30-3:45 ACTIVITIES: Began first days of community service work at the gifts garden at Skokomish. Began clearing of weeds in the culinary bed, and redefining the boundaries of the bed. General plant ID and invasive species ID. Saved the roots of yellowdock and burdock for medical use. Gathered with other classmates to discuss our experiences and shared ideas in circle. CUMULATIVE HOURS: 12.5 .................................... DATE: Monday October 30 TIME: 8:00-12:00 ACTIVITIES: Picked up group-mates and headed to the Gifts Garden. Finished clearing dense weeds from culinary bed. Harvested some overgrown Comfrey root, will clean and dry it and give it to Marja. CUMULATIVE HOURS: 16.5 .............................................. DATE: Monday October 30 TIME: 5-6:15 ACTIVITIES: Researched herbal medecine and traditions of the tribes of the pacific northwest to assist the sayuyay garden group project. Found a stack of great books to pour over and a few videos. CUMULATIVE HOURS: 17.75 ................................................ DATE: Wednesday November 1 TIME: 3-5 ACTIVITIES: Resaerched plants from the East Bed of the Gifts Garden CUMULATIVE HOURS: 19.75 .............................................. DATE: Thursday November 2 TIME: 3-5 ACTIVITIES: Internet and Book Research for plants in the east bed CUMULATIVE HOURS: 21.75 ....................................................... DATE: Friday November 17 TIME: 7-9:30 pm ACTIVITIES: Hosted a meeting for the sayuyay sister garden group at my house. We discussed our research, and the direction of our groups presentation. We watched 2 films. One was an evening of Lushootseed storytelling by Vie Hilbert and the other was an exploration ofNW coastal tribes and culture from a very disturbing perspective. The movie focused on the logging "resources" of the areas and the fact that much of the tribal culture was lost to modern mankind's ways ( as if it was a good thing- a sign of progress). We discussed our shocked emotions and disgust. CUMULATIVE HOURS: 24.25 ......................................................... DATE: Friday November 24th TIME: 11-1:30 ACTIVITIES: Explored the Wapatki Pueblo Ruins north of Flagstaff, Arizona. Visited 3 ancient Pueblo sites and learned about the building techniques, farming practices, traditional foods and native plants and medicines. Found it easy to synthsize this learning with the perspectives and knowledge Ive gained from the Earth Blanket and wokring at Skokomish, to look at all ecosystems in a new way. CUMULATIVE HOURS: 26.75 ............................................................ DATE: Saturday November 25th TIME: 3-6:30 ACTIVITIES: Took a guided tour of Monument Valley Tribal Park on the Navajo Reservation along the Utah/ Arizona border. I took along my Plant Guide Books and did some ID with the help of our guide, Gabriel. I had a lovely introduction to Navajo culture and visited some Anasazi Ruins from 1500 years ago. I kept my eyes and mind open, observing the ecosystem and plantlife and visualizing what life would've been like there before modern ways took over. CUMULATIVE HOURS: 30.25 ................................................................ DATE: Friday Dec 1 TIME: 7-12 ACTIVITIES: Met with sayuyay Sister Garden Group to finalize our presentation, discuss our research and post together on Drupal. CUMULATIVE HOURS: 35.25 .................................................................
Anna Thirkield
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