Mineun Kang
McFarland
Bio 241
June 11th, 2017
Hours: 2 hours on May 11th 2017
2 hours on June 1st 2017
Supervisor: Marni Swart marni.swart@email.edcc.e
The goal of the volunteering at campus farm is to provide students
opportunities regarding production of local farm’s goods and help them engaged
to support food banks for hunger-relief charities.
My duties in the campus farm were weeding, transferring woodchips,
planting, watering, harvesting, and washing produces. The good part about this
volunteer was I got to try most of the tasks needed for farming in only 4 hours
in total. The duties were familiar to me since my dad used to have big farm
when I was little. However, actually getting involved and doing the task was my
first time. Interesting fact about transplanting seedling was when
transplanting, the roots from the first soil should be loosen up. Otherwise
even if the seedling were transferred, it would think it is still in a pot that
its roots will coil up. I’ve learned lots of fun information about farming and
realized how much effort, time and care are needed to grow each produce.
Other
thing I realized while completing the tasks relating to this class was how all
muscles in human body are involved. For weeding and planting, one must keep his
gastrocnemius, soleus (calf of leg) and bicep femoris, semitendinosus
(hamstring muscle) flexed while gluteus maximus extended to sit on your toe.
Moreover, I figured when shoveling or carrying heavy things, it is easy to
stress lower back. However, one must not put woodchip or other weight on lower
back which may cause lumbar degenerative disc especially for elders whose
spinal bones, joints, tissues and muscles are weakened due to aging. Vision anatomy
and physiology was also involved. Under the sunlight, photogenic receptor in
retina of eye specifically cones were responsible for processing color of vegetables
and flowers. When I enter hut to grab tools under shelves, my vision got black
to adjust in which rods were taking time to sense in low-light environment. By
taking this class, I become more aware of what’s happening
with my body.
Questions:
1. Do farmers earn
enough money compare to how much effort and physical labor they put into grow plants?
2. It is dangerous
for old people to stay under the sun due for a long time due to degenerated
function of secreting sweat for thermal regulation. Is there medical or cosmetic
product that can prevent this risk for aged people?
3. How much
calories in average would it burn working at farm for one hour?
4. What will be
the physiological effect of eating pesticides?
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