I don't really have access to a computer at City Farmer's so my plan is to walk around and talk about what I did and show before and after pictures on my phone. I have taken lots of photos and videos on my phone so I have lots of evidence that I actually have been doing my job and not hair sitting around.
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I've learned to appreciate that sometime you just have to go and get stuff done even if you don't want to; if something has to happen do it. I don't want to rake up the cow and horse and chicken poo, but I have to or else the animals can get sick, and even taken away if it got bad enough. The willingness to just do it, it's hard to be able to have the attitude to just do something. I want to be less lazy and more willing to just throw myself into doing something no matter what. Interning at City Farmer's has given me an example of working somewhat along your own lines and being able to do things in your own way as long as it gets done
I was an extra pair of hands around the farm and I think that I have helped take some of the stress off. Like I said before, I think that being at City Farmer's has taught me more about relying on others and trusting them to do something. Being at City Farmer's has helped me narrow down what I want to do in the future, I definitely have always wanted to do something with animals. Now I think that that working with Gigi and Poinsettia
I think out of everything I've done this month I've learned a lot about team work and depending on someone to do something. Everyone at the farm(and in regular life) does something in their daily routine that requires someone else to do something so they can do their own thing. Like today, Tracy and I were making the new citrus plants that came in, we had to mark them correctly so that the customers can correctly identify and choose which plant they want. When we moving the plants to their section we discovered that somebody has put all the citrus in the wrong spots and the signs didn't line up at all. That took twenty minutes out of our day to fix because somebody didn't do their job correctly, and that may have caused us to not do something that someone else depended on. That has made me realize that if somebody needs you to do something don't put it off or ask someone else to do it for you. It may not happen or it will not be done correctly.
1. Ashley Price (http://aprice2017.weebly.com/internship-blog)
Ashley's internship at a daycare center in Ecuador sounds absolutely amazing and I am so jealous of her experiences. She is a teacher's aid for a preschool classroom and it really seems like she's helping a lot with the children. 2. Mandalyn Kime (http://mkime.weebly.com/internship) Mandalyn seems to be having a great time at Lions, Tigers, and Bears(oh my(sorry I had to)). She's learning what it takes to be in a professional environment and have to find things for yourself to do. I know that's a hard thing to do (having a job myself), and it's still hard for me to at my own job and internship. 3. Kathryn Joachim-Robles (http://kjoachimrobles7.weebly.com/) Kat is helping out in a class, similarly to Ashley. She is teaching the students a lesson about ecosystems, and has a whole project planned out for them. I can tell Kat is really loving her internship and that she is learning a lot about what it takes to be to integrated in another grade. My internship is very different from school. At school were doing, you know, school stuff. And at internship I'm going a lot more manual labor, like lugging wheelbarrows full of rocks and dirt up "Cardiac Hill" as Lori likes to call it. Like I said I'm moving heavy things, caring for animals that I don't normally. In a way I can almost do what I want here, like if I'm tired of weeding or building tree rings I can switch to the opposite or take a short break, help Clayton if he needs it. The people here are different than my classmates or teachers too, I'm interacting with customers, who are very friendly and kind, and the staff here, who are amazing and helpful. I've always loved animals and plants and I always thought that I'd become a vet or a zoo keeper. This internship has made me realize that there are other futures with similar outcomes and people to surround myself with. Being at City Farmer's has sort of brought me back to the other aspects of conserving. You can sustain yourself by just planting a few things in your back yard. You can raise your own animals, collect rain water and storm run off. There are so many options. I also stuck some leaves on Poinsettia's horn today, which Gigi ate. My project for my internship at city farmers is to rebuild the tree rings around the trees up on the hill at the back of the property they're are about 27 trees up there and it is a lot of work. I have to find big rocks from around the farm and lug those and soil up the hill, which is a very hard job, luckily I've been getting some help on that. Melanie emailed me the other day and told me that she figured that the rings would be done relatively quickly and that once I was done I could groom the animals. Gigi and Poinsettia are both very muddy and dirty from the rain and mud and dust, so I have my work cut out for me. Tomorrow I have almost a full day to work on the tree rings, so hopefully I'll be able to get a lot done so I can move on to the animals. Today was an exhausting one, I'm not really sure why since I don't do much different than I have before. I started out feeding the turkey and chickens that live with him. They've got a small side yard on the left hand side of the barn. It's got two sections one for the turkey to stay in and the other side where the chickens can escape him, but they are free to go on every they side. Then I fed and cleaned the rabbits in their little pen near the main shop/building, they've got a patch of ground and a little wooden bench/box thing; as well as a few cat crates in there right now so they can go somewhere warm. Then I checked on the quail -there's only two and they live in a little hutch that reminds me of something for Guinea pigs- cleaned their water out, they didn't need any more food seeing as they don't eat much. After that I went back to the barn and cleaned and fed Gigi and Poinsettia. They've got an open barn and small yard that they come back to at night, during the day they go out to a small pasture near the back of the property. Then I wen though the gate that connects Gigi and Poinsettia's yard to to main group of chickens with Cory, who works at City Farmer's. We raked the yard of any poop and collected the scattered duck eggs, after awhile Andrew, who is Lori's son( the manager) joined us. We fed the ducks and chickens and left them to their day. The chickens and ducks have a large square yard that sits against the back of Gigi and Poinsettia's yard. They have a shelter with milk crates for them to lay eggs in during the laying season and perches for them to roost on. Next to the shelter is a corner full of rocks used for drainage, their waterers sit over their and that is where we wash out the milk crates. Next to that corner is the pond for the ducks and geese, sometimes the chickens drink out of it, which is pretty gross. After than I joined Melanie at the back of the farm and we brought Gigi and Poinsettia to their pasture. Once they were settled on I continued making tree rings and unburrying plants and objects that had been covered with sand from the rain. This morning started out the same as the others, but because of the weather my bus was delayed. I was going to be late and I was bummed. As I was walking down the street Bill, the owner of City Farmer's, drove past. He stopped and offered me a ride, which I accepted gratefully. I met up with Clayton, as usual, and we started cleaning the animals. We delt with the Gigi and Poinsettia feeding and cleaning. After that we moved into the chicken yard, which is also inhabited by ducks and a few Canadian geese. I raked the straw that was on the ground and sprayed down the milk crates that double as nesting boxes before I need to ask what Clayton wanted me to do next. He asked me if I was afraid of the turkey, the turkey lives on the other side of the yard with a few other chickens. I had been in with the turkey before and he didn't bother me much; he likes to sit up on what is basically a big shelf and almost never comes down. When he is up there he is right at eye level and the perfect spot to peck you in the face (or back if you are bending over). Clayton told me to go clean out their waters and feed them, not a big task, but I was proud of myself that he trusted me enough to do it on what was basically my second day. Because of the rain last night and today, my mentor told me to stay home. It's really hard gardening in the mud. I didn't waste the day away though. My project for my internship is to create tree rings for a hill that sit at the back of City Farmer's near the paddock. I've been researching the best ways to form tree rings and what they are actually used for. Everyone has been super nice and helpful, and they're all really great about having someone new around who doesn't quite get the flow of things yet. On the first day we dug holes and ripped out a few trees and that was tough work since it's not something I'm used to. I'm not used to a lot of manual labor so that's something that I'll need to get used do, but I'm looking forward to it for sure.
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