Service learning at the EDCC campus farm.

I went to the Edmond's community college campus farm work party on Thursday May 18^th 2017 from 2.00 to 4.00pm.  Marni Swart ( marni.swart@email.edcc.edu)  was the instructor at the farm party. The purpose of the farm party is to create an opportunity for students to engage in farming.

I helped in watering the plants, harvesting lettuce, transplanting tomatoes from the nursery to the main bed, transporting soil to where the plants are. The service learning was very educative. I was helping my parents in the farm in Africa so I can relate to farming a lot. It gave me the opportunity to reflect on the hard work that farmers are doing.

As a work on the farm I reflected on the risk of skin damage from sun burn and other physical agents. Therefore it is very significant to have gloves on all the times to ensure that the stratum cornea in particular and the epithelial in general is in tack to protect our hands from harmful bacteria.

Biology is interdisciplinary when the digestive system is seriously affected, the body may not have enough energy for skeletal muscles, smooth muscles and cardiac muscles to function properly, therefore there may be problems with movement, breathing and other vital functions.

 The digestive system plays a vital role in brain development and functioning. The developing brain between 24 and 42 weeks gestation is particularly vulnerable to nutritional deficiency because of the rapid trajectory of severe neurological processes which include synapse formation and myelination (the American society for clinical nutrition, 2007). Therefore for action potential to generate and travel through the axon to the post synaptic membrane and for motor and sensory neurons to carry information to and from the central nervous system, the human being needs to have the required nutrients to provide the required energy. I reflected on the importance of farming to provide these nutrients for the proper functioning of all the organs and systems in our body. farming is indeed rewarding.