Fall Preperations

This past week, our class has been working on our soil reports, adding onto our compost pile, working on our management jobs, and continuing to stay up to date on our One Bed Projects. The soil report showed our class how to properly identify whether or not that soil was ready to be used for planting by using a series of calculations based off of our results from putting the soil into a cylinder with water and letting it sit for a few days. With the results, we were able to determine what materials we had to add to the soil to make it ideal planting soil. For some, staying up to date on our beds meant re-planting in the areas of our beds that were having problems growing, while others may have just had to water and make sure that everything was looking good. Our pile of compost continues to grow, therefore, we have been organizing it into individual piles as it waits to be put into use. As a new month is upon us, our new water group continues to build irrigation systems for the farm as all of our other management groups continue to do their part to ensure that the farm continues to improve.
-Lars H.