(Service Learning) Campus Community Farm Work Party - Kevin Gomez
Campus Community Farm Work Party
1.) Amount of hours volunteered: 2
Contact Email: Nhu.tran@email.edcc.edu
2.)Sponsored by Department of Anthropology
One of the beginning goals of the event was the load up wheelbarrows of chips and spread them out in the entrance where the mechanical equipment come in. Another project involved chopping wood and moving a log off the ground to prevent it from rotting.
Photos taken by Ayodhaya Kitsondhi
3) Shoveling chips and spreading them around to provide traction for the mechanical equipment. Another involved chopping wood and moving a very heavy log off the ground.
4) Since there were a lot of people if felt as if there wasn’t enough work to go around, but when i think about it, it made all of the tasks achievable at a fast and efficient pace. It’s especially important to volunteer and help out the community where they’re unable to pay for a specific service that may not seem like much but goes a long way. It also builds experience with handling how to garden, building relations, cut wood, etc. the way i interpret the role of science in society and the relation to how its important to serve the community is through understanding that science is necessary in order to establish how to correctly treat organisms like plants. Treating them involves labor which is the service required that the schools asks for in the form of volunteering. I currently volunteer at my local church every wednesday and sunday for the jr. high ministry and it definitely makes an impact that i am there to help out.
5) It is tough to make connections with gardening with animal biology since we have not learned about plant organisms. One way i can relate this is to how humans are able to take care of plants and obtain produce. It requires a ton of patients and care to produce fruits and vegetables in comparison to any other animal besides us who benefit from us growing produce. You have to understand the concepts of planting specific plants and the predators of each of those plants. Getting rid of those predators may require complex care as to not hurt the plant buy get rid of the predator at the same time. Also, making sure that the resources that you use, like dirt or wood, do not disturb the habitats of other organisms in a negative way. Humans have a lot of responsibility with the environment since we have the tools and ability to impact an environment. It requires a lot of knowledge to understand why you do the things that you do, even achieving the same goal, but doing it in a efficient and harmless way
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Why does lifting the log off the ground prevent rotting?
Did spreading the chips actually help to provide traction for the vehicles?
Is the fire pit often used? Can it be only be used by certain students?
Can you make a pizza in that wood stone looking thing?
It's awesome you got to work out with the garden, I have been wanting to learn more about gardening and actually recently got some strawberry plants from there. And I believe for the fire pit and oven, there are people who are designated to be allowed to use them, I've gone to a couple of events where we had to get permission and a supervisor in order to use the fire pit, and some people do use the "wood stone thing" as a pizza oven, I think again it just requires talking to the right people and getting it all okayed properly.
ReplyDeleteKevin, I enjoyed reading your post about your experience in the campus garden. I volunteered there last quarter and had a good experience as well. I enjoyed reading about some of the connections this helped you make with biology and how it applies to the real world. It really is hard work to maintain plants and I remember how much work it was weeding the garden for even just the 4 hours I was there. This really gives me a lot of respect for the effort that people put in to make the produce that we use on a daily basis.
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