MY
SERVICE LEARNING AT A FARM WORK PARTY
1- On
Monday, May 15th 2017 , I did
my service learning on the campus farm located near
the golf. The supervisor of the farm is Marni Swart and
her email address is marni.swart@email.edcc.edu).
My son and I volunteer for 2 hours.
2- The
event (farm work party) was organized by the department of biology on a sunny
day and directed by Jenny and Gwen. The purpose of the event was to participate
at the service learning but more than that, it was to contribute in a farm
work.
3- I
was really happy to participate at this event because it made me remember my
childhood. In the farm I harvest green and red lettuce and also removed bad
plant from the bed. The bed was the place where the plant of the garden grow.
My son and I had a funny day.
4- By
participated at this event, I was able to realize and remember that working in
the farm was very exciting and demand more energy than people think. When I go
to do my grocery, I don’t care about organic or non-organic. After I have participated at this event, it
changed my mind on what kind of fruit or product (organic or non-organic) I
have to buy because the right choice (organic), I will reduce the consummation
of pesticide. I learned that it is better for us to choose organic strawberry
than non-organic because the skin of strawberry is thin. If we buy a
non-organic, there is more pesticide that we could not wash off. If we eat it
everyday, we store more chemical in our body which is bad for our health. If think the connection between the farm work
party and the course is that we use our muscle to do all the activity related
to the farm. As we start to work in the fam, our muscle contract and become
muscle force but after a period the strength of the muscle become weak so we
see that in term of muscle fatigue. Another connection will be working in a
sunny day in the farm could have some impact on the skin. We could have first
degree skin burn since we are directly exposed to sunburn. In our course, we
talked about the integumentary system and different type of burn. Biology is interdisciplinary because it is connected
to chemistry, nutrition and more. Healthy food produced in the farm help our
body to remain healthy since there are no pesticide in those product. Also
biology is interdisciplinary because everything that we learn in real life is connected
to biology. For example, food rich in carbohydrate contribute to the production
of ATP which give us energy to even participate in the farm.
5-
Are students from other college or
from the community allow to volunteer at the farm?
What advice that someone new to farm
activity can have if he want to be involve in this life?
How new technology influence the work
that farmer do?
Can I create my own rain garden if I
have a space and how can I do that?
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