{"id":109,"date":"2021-04-10T17:45:15","date_gmt":"2021-04-11T00:45:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress.evergreen.edu\/tmtaa-portfolio-f20-sarah-d\/?p=109"},"modified":"2021-05-26T00:11:18","modified_gmt":"2021-05-26T07:11:18","slug":"week-2-co-curricular-community-gardens-stewardship-collaborative-community-garden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.evergreen.edu\/tmtaa-portfolio-f20-sarah-d\/week-2-co-curricular-community-gardens-stewardship-collaborative-community-garden\/","title":{"rendered":"Week 3 \u2013 Co-Curricular Community Gardens Stewardship"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Collaborative Community Garden <\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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The community garden crew enjoys coffee and muffins in front of the SAL while planning the days work. Left to right: Dr. Sarah Williams, Ali Bailey, Emma Stewart, Caleb Poppe, Le’Allen Savare, and Alegra Dunn.
Photography by Sarah Dyer.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

“In my tribe in old times, some men helped their wives in their gardens. Others didn’t. Those who did not help their wives talked against those who did, saying, ‘That man’s wife makes him a servant.’ <\/p>

And the others retorted, ‘Look, that man puts all the hard work on his wife!’ Men were not alike: some did not like to work in the garden at all, and cared for nothing but to go around visiting or to be off on a hunt. <\/p>

My father, Small Ankle, liked to garden and often helped his wives. He told me that that was the best way to do. ‘Whatever you do,’ he said, ‘help your wife in all things!’ He taught me to clean the garden, to help gather the corn to hoe, and to rake. <\/p>

My father said that that man lived best and had plenty to eat who helped his wife; he who did not help his wife was likely to have scanty stores of food.”\u2013WOLF CHIEF (told in 1910). <\/p>Gilbert L. Wilson: Buffalo Bird Woman’s Garden, Page 115<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

“Real men carry a small fork.”<\/p>Dr. Steve Scheurell<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

After preparing our first beds, we are excited to start planting this week. Caleb arrived with pre-soaked legume seeds and explained that soaking seeds will swell and soften them, as well as prepare them by instigating the first roots. Big, wrinkled, and hard-coated seeds make excellent candidates for soaking; smaller seeds like carrot and lettuce are hard to handle after soaking and don’t need it anyway. Caleb recommend soaking seeds for 8-12 hours and no more than 24 hours. Too much soaking can cause decomposition, so it is important to plant the seeds as soon as possible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Before planting, we inoculated our peas with Guard-N, an OMRI listed additive that contains several strains of rhizobia, symbiotic nitrogen-fixing bacteria which help legumes capture more nitrogen. <\/p>\n\n\n\n