my progress

so far in my project i have helped with the sign and i also helped make the flyer. the first flyer i made the computer kept shutting down. the second flyer i made i got already and i put in all the pictures and i also wrote out the title and the information that will be need to know how to get to the drop off and where the drop off is.

public goods aden

Aden Wilson  

4/12/12

Mrs. McLeod

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My Public Goods Project

            My public good project is to make a food drop off for the students that don’t have lunch. The produce that the parents will bring in will have to be home grown. The name of my project is called free food for all. The reason we chose this name is because the kids can come up to the blue cooler during lunch and grab something to eat.

            The work we have finished is getting the flyers done to post around school and down town finished. We also have gotten the cooler to put the fruits in. all that we need to do next is get the fruit from the parents and get the signs posted up out front. We also need to put up the flyers.

            The final product of our project will look like a bunch of kids walking around with full bellys.

proggres on public goods project

so far we have writen the scrip and gotten the recipie. so we still have to get the ingredients and get the propes together and a camra

One Island Farm

One island farm is a self sustaining organic farm that is of the grid, they use solar panels to power all of there electronics and solar hat water panels to heat there water they get there water from water catchment tanks. they also have a screen house which is a green house made out of screen a they also have some butterfly tent.they converted a green house into a kitchen/living room, they built a quadraphonic. while we were there we helped clear a ancient grains garden wheel.          

one island

one island was a very green place. one island had alot of different ways to be green 3 of them are the greenhouse/screenhouse, the water catchment system(s), and also the the solar cooker. wheil we were there we halped make a new garden bed. the garden bed look like a crossed out circle. one island was a sustainable farm that is off the grid. off the grid means that they have no electricity so they have to make their own. they did this by having sevral solar panels. the one island farm was very fun i would reccomend it to anyton that would want to go to a farm. i would also reccomend it to some one that wants to learn about self sustainability

seed to table/ kawanui farm

i think that seed to table means that you plant your own seeds or harvest them and you eat them fresh right then.
kawanui farm was established in 2000 by nancy and also gerry. ever since 2001 they have had classes go up and to the farm and then they would give them a lesson on the fruits and vegitables. kawanui farm is 1.2 acers for fruit and vegtibles. your also able to sample 12 different types of coffee. nancy redfeather has been a teacher/gardener for 38 years. your also able view gardens, orchards, a greenhouse, and storage/production facilities. you also are able to get lunch made with food picked from there gardens.

Seed to Table

What this phrase meens to me is that you should go out get a seed plant it water it firtalize it, in till it produces a crop and then bring it to your table and share it with your family and friends.  

turmeric tea rajah

the recepie for turmeric tea is

4 cups water
1 tbs ground turmeric
1 splash honey (optional)
1 splash lemon (optional)

turmeric tea recepie aden

the recepie for turmeric tea is

4 cups water
1 tbs ground turmeric
1 splash honey (optional)
1 splash lemon (optional)

taro is used for medecine and food.

aden taro

taro helped the ancient Hawaiians because they used it for medicine and they also ate it and made poi out of it. and it was also used in rituals. it taro farmers got alot of money for their crops because the cost of taro was alot back then because there wasnt very much of it. the way that they planted taro was they would find a big crop field and then they would plant it there then they would fill it up with water so they dont have to water it ever and when it would be ripe they would put it in soups and also medecine.

blood meal rajah

blood meal is dyed and possessed cow blood.

blood meal aden

blood meal is made up of actual blood from slaughter houses that has been dried. and spun to get all the gunk out of it.

new plants

this is our new icecream bean plant and our new lucky bean tree.
Blue= lucky bean tree
red= ice cream beans

red= newly grown icecream beans
blue= our newly plantes lucky bean tree

aden

this is our new bell pepper next to our basil. this is the spot where the small green house used to be.

rajah

This is our new bell pepper

this is our newly clened garden and our new sign.

Aden Wilson

Mr. Kriner

Eat Local

1/20/12

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Transplanting

transplanting is when you move a plant from the ground to a different spot in the ground or into a pot. The process that you do to transplant something is first you dig a hole around the roots of the plant. Make sure you don't break the roots or this could kill the plant. Next you have a hole where you want the plant to be. Then you put the plant in the hole and wet the roots. Then you have to cover the hole with the dirt and moisten the dirt.

Rajah                                                        Transplanting

This is a tomato plant that i trans planted at the beginning of the year

Transplanting is a very precise task were you have to take many precautions. Such as making sure that the soil is very wet so that it is very easy to re move from the ground. Now you must dig the plant out very carefully and you have to try and not hit the roots at all once you have gotten it out of the ground. you should wash off the roots and cover them if you are going a far distance. If not than simply carry or push in a wheel barrel once you have gotten to were you want to plant it. You must dig a hole that is twice the size of the root cluster before you put it in you need to make the inside of the hole nice and wet now you can put the plant in the hole you can fill it in with dirt. once it's full you can water it in till it is soaking wet now you are finished. One more thing if you ever cut off a hole bunch of roots the plant may go in to shock which then it will probably die or if you just pull the plant out of the ground.                 

This is our garden. as you can see we made some major changes

the giant tub in the front with the wood on top of it will soon be potatoes. the thing on top of it is our new drying rack in it there is basil and mint. in the back is our empty composter. the plants that we are growing in it are mint, spearmint, basil, turmeric, tomatoes, and a sunflower.

The product that we will be producing will be dried basil and dried mint and turmeric.