This week on the farm did not involve the introduction of any new beds, trips, or market prep. This week's classes focused rather on maintaining our current projects. After getting assigned their class beds and planting in them about two weeks ago, students are continuing to water and pay close attention to how their seedlings are doing. In my group's class bed, A5 South, we planted around 24 purple kale seedlings. These kales were transferred from flats, where we began growing them weeks ago. We were initially concerned for our kale as our group has seen little to no growth in the crops since planting them. However, Mr. Stewart assured us that the slow growth is normal because of our late Fall planting. We will continue to water and care for our plants throughout the season and will hopefully see more growth when the weather gets warmer again. If the kale shows no progress in the next few weeks, we will have to pull it from our bed and plant something else. Though unfortunate, this is not uncommon and shows us the reality of growing these kinds of crops during winter.
Also this week, we worked in our groups on our somewhat new management jobs. My group is Companions so we spent a portion of the block day looking around the farm, where we found Earthworms, Rollie Pollies, and Cucumber Beetles. We also found a Green Cricket on one of the trees near our bed and what we believe was an Ear Wig larva in our group bed's soil.
-Tessa
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