Healing Gardens

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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