This was a busy week for Redwood's Sust Ag class. We spent this week accomplishing things that needed to be done. We were also blessed with great weather that allowed us to work on the farm.
On Monday we all worked in class on our Sustainable Redwood project. Unlike most other projects done in other science classes, this one really made us reflect on how we can realistically make Redwood High School a more sustainable school. To do this we all worked with our bed groups to calculate how much farming space we would need to feed the entire population here. We used results from past harvests to get a sense of just how much space we would need to achieve this. After coming to an answer the next step was to see where this space would come from and how Redwood would operate with a larger farm. For my group specifically, we decided that the Football field and JV Baseball field were redundant as we already have field space for both those sports, so we would have hypothetically turned it into farmable land. We also made sure to include a water tank so we could have our own source to be more off the grid. Collectively, the entire class all thought of ways Redwood can be better with the hopes that some of these ideas may even come true.
On Tuesday, we were able to manage some time out on the farm which was nice. With the collected cardboard we covered 4 of the E beds, and after school, that day was spent sheet-mulching the E beds. On block day we did a lot of work on the E beds. We planted lettuce in the newly made beds and continued preparing them for more planting. Overall, we got a lot of work done this week.
-Tiago Schwartz
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