Progress since the beginning of the year!

By Maia Mazur

This week on the farm, 5th Period Sustainable Agriculture has made significant improvement on the weed overtake of our farm. Although there is consistent weeding to be done, our class has worked very hard to double dig beds and plant beautiful calorie crops to feed our community. 

The sithe is my favorite tool for efficiently cutting large quantities of weeds. 

Most of the time on the farm, as of lately, we have been working to remove the regrowth of weeds that were cut down in the very start of the year, on our personal beds. 

Unfortunately, a weed called bermudagrass, is very hard to remove permanently. To do so, the roots of the grass need to be removed from the soil,  eliminating the possibility of regrowth. Our soil is very sticky, so some soil is taken out along with the roots of the bermudagrass, and thrown into the growing pile of invasive plants.  This has to be done in order to keep our beds bermudagrass free! 

In addition, my bed group was in charge of building compost, and spent a good amount of time cleaning out the green compost bins that the CEA uses.