Sydney Straw's Senior Project Blog

 I have definitely learned a lot from doing this senior project. Even though it was only four weeks, I feel like I got a good view on what it is truly like to work on a farm. Through doing things myself and watching Lyn, Juvencio, and Polly, I saw how much goes into running and operating a successful farm. I wrote a little bit about this last week, but one thing that I really realized was how much weather impacts the work. It is a big factor in whether or not things will grow and when they need to planted. It also really affects wildlife within the farm as well as your own work (if it is really hot it is a lot harder to do work in the greenhouses whereas if it is super cold and rainy it is harder to do stuff outside).  I am really glad that I got the opportunity to do this as my project. It gave me an insight into what the first step in the food industry is like. I feel like I didn't really know very much about it before because this part of the food industry isn't widely disc...

   I didn't write about last friday in my week 2 post because we leave the farm at 6:30 so I can't write my post before the weekly deadline, but one funny thing that happened last Friday was that we had to plant more leeks. The day before we planted leeks in some really bad weather for a pretty long time, so hearing that we had to plant more was a bit of an unwelcome surprise . But to tell you the truth, it was fun on friday! I think that it is mostly because the weather was so much nicer. Thursday was cold and windy, but friday was beautiful and sunny. I am pretty sure we even spent the same amount of time planting on friday but the time went by extremely quickly. This really made me realize how much weather can make a difference.  This week has been hot and sunny weather which actually has a pretty big impact on what we do. Because it gets so hot we have been doing some different jobs such as cleaning out a room in the barn and planting areas that have a bit more shade....