Sydney Straw's Senior Project Blog

The week isn't even over and I already feel like so much more has happened in comparison to last week. The past two days at the farm have been full of a ton of different things and I still have one more day left to work this week! Wednesday was definitely my favorite day so far because we happened to see a bunch of cute baby animals. There was a tiny birds nest in one of the greenhouses that we were working in and there was a bunch of baby birds in it! The nest itself was really small and the baby birds were so tiny! They barely have any feather fluff and were packed into the little nest. It was kind of hard to tell how many were in the nest but they kept opening their mouths and moving around, it was a really cool thing to get to see. That same day we got to feed a baby cow as well. The farm has cows and one of them died when she had a baby so Juvencio (one of the heads of La Finquita del Buho) had to rescue the newly born calf and take him in his car to their farm and he has to b...

For my project I am working at two farms with Tulip, Pumpkin Ridge and La Finquita del Buho. I chose to do this particular project for a couple of reasons. First off, I really did not want to do a project that was on zoom or in the form of classes in any way. I wanted to do something that was a complete change in scenery and something that I have never really done before. I also thought that working on a farm would allow me to learn more about how farms work. I feel like I don't really know anything about this area of the food industry and I already have learned more about it.  After working for a week, we have done a lot of weeding, transplanting plants at different stages of life, harvesting, and organizing. The farms that we work with provide customers with a CSA and they also sell plant starts at the Saturday famers market in Beaverton. There is a lot of organization and preparation that goes into the farmers market and so that is one of the things we have been helping most wit...