Date: 10/05/06 (Thursday) Time Spent: 45 minutes Activities: Working on site description for Mixed Forest A Site Learning: Many observations collected and photographed to later discover names and properties, as well as map location.
Date: 10/05/06 (Thursday) Time Spent: 15 minutes Activities: Speaking with Community Service Project Liason Learning: Days most needed. (They like to weed the garden in dry weather with a hoe rather then just after it's rained.)
Date: 10/10/06 (Tuesday) Time Spent: 1 hour Activities: Measuring Longhouse Garden site Learning: How to roughly survey landscaping site
Date: 10/11/06 (Wednesday) Time Spent: 1.5 hours (9am - 10:30 am) Activities: Tour with class, Assist as needed, Meet and greet other volunteers Learning: Digging potatoes, Organic apple keeping, growing corn, raising organic chickens
TOTAL CUMULATIVE HOURS: 5 hours
Week Three
Date: 10/12/06 (Thursday) Time Spent: 3 hours (9:30 am - 12:30 pm) Activites: Take classes on tour of apple orchards, Educate classes about organic apple growing, Help distrubute pumpkins in the pumpkin patch Learning: Great ways to grow organic apples and how to teach children about the benefits of organic farms, The best pumpkin pie comes from squash not pumpkins
Date: 10/18/06 (Wednesday) Time Spent: 1.5 hours (4 pm - 5:30 pm) Activities: Plant identification Learning: What plants grow in MFA, learning about what plants need removal or pruning
Date: 10/19/06 (Thursday) Time Spent: 2 hours Activities: Drawing detailed map of site. Used Visio to give a more accurate scale. Learning: It amazing how difficult it is to accurately draw a map to scale. To get the right curves in and angles, etc, takes an amazing amount of math skills and time to get it just right. Although we choose to not get this detailed, it would have been a challenging, yet enjoyable experience to put my math skills to the test to see how accurate we could have drawn the map ourselves.
TOTAL CUMULATIVE HOURS: 11.5 hours
Week Four
Date: 10/19/06 (Thursday) Time Spent: 3 hours (9:30 am - 12:30 pm) Activities: Take classes on tour of apple orchards, Educate classes about organic apple growing Learning: Since these classes were younger then last week, I was able to practice how to discuss organic growing practices with a younger group
Date: 10/25/06 Time Spent: 1.5 hours (3:45 pm - 5.:15 pm) Activities: Site Care (cutting blackberries and ferns) Learning: Discovered areas for new plants
Date: 10/25/06 Time Spent: 4.5 hours (9:30 am - 2:00 pm) Activities: Pulling potatoes and demonstrations to groups of children, Help farmers plant char in greenhouse Learning: Farming potatoes, planting salad greens
TOTAL CUMULATIVE HOURS: 20.5 hours
Week Five
No time spent this week. Community Project has come to a close.
Week Six
Date: 11/04/06 (Saturday) Time Spent: 3 hours Activities: Detailed plant identification logs/pages Learning: What describes/defines each plant, what you can use each plant for - medicine and other uses
TOTAL CUMULATIVE HOURS: 23.5 hours
Week Eight
Date: 11/15/06 Time Spent: 2 hours Activities: Worked on site description Learning: Developing a better understanding of our site
TOTAL CUMULATIVE HOURS: 25.5 hours
Week Nine
Date: 11/22/06 Time Spent: 5 hours Activities: Worked on site presentation, photographing site (mushrooms, fungi) Learning: Developing ways to present material so that others can easily translate it into useful information. It was amazing the change in our site as we transition from dry weather into wet, soggy, cold weather. All of a sudden mushrooms and other fungus began appearing everywhere. I spent a significant amount of time photographing our new found plants before they disappeared again. I never realized the amount of plant life existing under the soil until now!
TOTAL CUMULATIVE HOURS: 30.5 hours
Week Ten
Date: 11/28/06 Time Spent: 5 hours Activities: Developing more material for site presentation, researching plant medicine within our site, researching significant uses of the plants in our site. Learning: I discovered new ideas for even the most popular plants, such as Western Redcedar. Redcedar can actually use it's anti-bacterial and anti-fungal properties to fight against athlete's foot and nail fungus. There is an entire list created toward my learning within my project. Amazing uses and medicine within each plant in our small forest.
