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Today I went around and just took pictures of both classes and both locations, the Columbia street and the UO one. I’ll elaborate more on that later, but first I want to post these pictures!

Morning Class at UO Urban Farm:

Lauren’s group examining the bee’s:

Harper’s group setting up tomato cages:

Shelly’s group is all like ‘lettuce party over here’:

 

Morning Class at Columbia St. Urban Farm:

Some group dialogs about classroom projects and real-world events before beginning the days work:

Kasey’s group is Taking Care of Brassicas: 

Using a machete helps to ensure they get chopped up into decent sizes for the compost pile! The more surface area the greater the exchange rate between microorganisms during decomposition which in turn leads to a faster rate of decomposition within the entire compost pile. Life!

Kasey is holding a sprayer full of compost tea!:

Goofing around:

Dan’s group getting ready to plant some Solanaceae:

Keegan’s group talking about reworking ‘the boneyard’: 

Afternoon Class at UO Urban Farm:

The afternoon class ran out of sunshine and got rain instead, but fear not! they continued their journey and had a great turnout!

Dan’s group checking out their turnip & carrot bed:

Kasey’s group putting up tomato cages:

We learned that to improve water resources the tomatoes were going to be planted in little trenches- to help with watering come summer time when there are less ‘hands on deck’ in the Urban Farm.

 

Leeks!:

All of this happened within a normal day of classes at the Urban Farm!

 

We harvested about 18 pounds of food security today, radical! You can check out the up-to-date harvest log here.

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Later Days

-Kat B!