Guest Presentations

Nick Welch  3/4/20

This week in Sustainable Agriculture we had two guest speakers come on. First we had a passionate tree farmer come in on monday and talk about fruit forests and tree grafting. I had no idea what you can do with different fruits on trees. He explained to us that you can put different types of plums on one plum and put different types of apples on one apple tree. It takes a lot of time but it is something that I think is very fascinating. It is very quick as the tree starts producing in a year or so. This is something that takes a lot of patience but the end result is very cool. I think a special type of person that loves trees would be the best for this sort of job. The second guest speaker who came in on March 3rd spoke to us about sheeps. His name was Aaron and he was a shepherd. He talked about the joys and hardships of being a shepherd. Aaron seemed very passionate about his job and even mentioned he had a special connection with some of his sheep. He said his biggest problem is not having a home base between contracts to keep his sheeps. Overall I think having people come in who are passionate about their jobs is a very good thing for us to experience.