{"id":314,"date":"2022-05-31T20:20:43","date_gmt":"2022-05-31T20:20:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress.evergreen.edu\/foodag-portfolio-2022-dewitt\/?p=314"},"modified":"2022-06-03T03:22:09","modified_gmt":"2022-06-03T03:22:09","slug":"week-10-saying-goodbye","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.evergreen.edu\/foodag-portfolio-2022-dewitt\/week-10-saying-goodbye\/","title":{"rendered":"Week 10: Saying Goodbye"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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One final work day<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Wednesday, 6\/1<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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The final weeded calendula bed<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Due to Monday being a holiday, my last official day in the herb garden landed on this Wednesday. It was a heavier day, I hadn’t slept the night before and so entering the already overgrown herb garden with all of my big goals still waiting to be achieved felt a little upsetting. I knew that fully weeding and mulching the entire left side of the garden was out of the question; I hadn’t gotten the support I needed to make this happen and had become overwhelmed by all of my work required for the end of the quarter. It was a bit disappointing, but looking on the bright side, maybe it means that the replacement of the irrigation can occur more smoothly without the cardboard and mulch covering every bed. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

For this final day of work, I tackled weeding the calendula bed with fellow Taste program friends, Laura and Cedar. We ripped out vetch and dandelion and these tiny blue-flowered plants that I still do not know the name of. It took two hours of work and two wheelbarrow loads of weeds to get the bed cleared, which felt like a satisfying day’s work after being unexpectedly caught in the rain halfway through. However, I am feeling uncertain about my calendula identification, the plants we left behind are the ones Beth had pointed out to me as calendula, I remember because of the fuzzy leaves, but the blue-flowered plants also had very similar leaves and appearances as well. I also spotted a lot of calendula seeds scattered across the soil’s surface, ungerminated. I am hopeful that what we left actually is calendula but am also curious as to what needs to occur to help the other seeds germinate. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A lovely pollinator friend on the angelica<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Thursday, 6\/2<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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Happy daisies!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Look at our cute new packaging and labels!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

After a final bake night celebration Tuesday evening, we had lots of deliciously decadent baked goodies for selling at our bake sale this Thursday. The club had used some money from previous sales to bulk order new packaging, and all of us were insanely pleased with how cute everything turned out to be. It was a slower day of sales for us but we were still able to make some wonderful community connections with people attending the market. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I also took a few minutes to meet with the herb-focused POF students to discuss their summer plans. I went over what my goals had been and the overwhelm that had caused me to fall short on some of these goals, and then I essentially handed off the reins to them for the summer quarter. I am very excited to see what they will achieve, it sounds like they’ll be focusing on replacing the irrigation, planting some new herbs, and hopefully getting access to the official herb garden WordPress website to add updates. And of course, they’ll be doing lots and lots of weeding, just like me. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Although Week 10 is drawing to a close and I have yet to finish my herb garden map updates, I am halfway done with them and promised the POF students that when I return on Thursday of Week 11 for the day, I will have the map to pass off to them. Giving myself a little extra time to get moved home and to turn in all of my work without the stress of this map will be very beneficial, and once I’m home, I’ll have all the time in the world to fully focus on getting it done. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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