Hours and Activity Log
| Week 1 | Weekly Activity | Weekly hours | Cumulative hours |
| Exploring research material opportunities | 20 | ||
| Defining my project and creating questions to lead the bulk of my project | 2.5 | ||
| Tuesday class: introductions, tasting lab, organic farm tour | 6 | ||
| Check-in with Sarah | .25 | ||
| Reading Racial Indigestion Introduction, Secret Financial Life of Food Chapter 1, Philosophy of Food | 1.5 | ||
| Learning about internship opportunities with Steven and Alan | 2 | ||
| Writing ILC and skimming through major project book resources | 1.5 | ||
| Formatting website and making adjustments | 1.5 | ||
| Analyzing seminar texts/writing paper | 2.5 | ||
| Reading Food for Change: The Politics and Values of Social Movements | 3 | ||
| Writing Introduction page/Researching Alice in Wonderland analyses. | 2 | ||
| Looking at other blogs | 1 | 43.75 |
| Week 2 | Weekly Activity | Weekly hours | Cumulative hours |
| Reading Food for Change: The Politics and Values of Social Movements | 2 | ||
| Reading Racial Indigestion Chapter 1 | 2.5 | ||
| Reading “Financial literacy and food security in extremely vulnerable households” article | .75 | ||
| Planning for Week 3 Tuesday lunch/tea/ pre-seminar discussion | 2 | ||
| Reading “Building Movements, Not Organizations,” “Mr. Chef Goes to Washington” | .25 | ||
| Editting ILC form | .5 | ||
| Watching PovertyInc. | 1.5 | ||
| Tuesday Class: ILC questions, seminar, workshop with Amy Greene | 6 | ||
| Reading Eating the Other and Autonomous Food…etc. | 3 | ||
| Practical Farm Workshop: Pruning with Dave | 2.5 | ||
| Finding new resources | .5 | ||
| Watching She’s Beautiful When She’s Angry | 1.5 | ||
| Political Consequences article | 1.5 | ||
| Listening to On Being “Let’s Talk About Whiteness” with Eula Bliss and Krista Tippet | 1 | ||
| Reading “Mobilising Slow Food” article | 1 | ||
| Attending Food Advisory Committee Meeting | 1 | ||
| Reading Another Politics: Talking Across Today’s Transformative Movements | 5 | ||
| Reading Secret Financial Life, finding current news article, analyzing seminar texts, pulling quotes, writing paper | 3 | ||
| Reading “Fire Worship” by Nathaniel Hawthorne +prepping materials for seminar | 1 | ||
| Went to premiere of Seed: The Untold Story | 2 | ||
| Working with website, formatting posts, fighting with zotpress | .75 | ||
| Looking at other blogs | 2 | 41.25 hours (85) |
| Week 3 | Weekly Activity | Weekly hours | Cumulative hours |
| Reading Another Politics: Talking Across Today’s Transformative Movements | 6.5 | ||
| Working with other students on ILCs and websites | 1.5 | ||
| Shopping for lunch/tea | .5 | ||
| Finding resources | .5 | ||
| Reading Agrarian Dreams to Democratic Realities; Cultural Modeling in Two Eras of US Food Protest; Motivations and Differential Participation in a Community Currency System; Social Movement Audiences | 4 | ||
| Working on example website/menu options | 1 | ||
| Tuesday Class | 7.5 | ||
| Listened to On Being “Driven By Flavor” with Dan Barber | 1 | ||
| Interviewed about beekeeping | 1.5 | ||
| Wednesday Food Policy candidate #2 | 1 | ||
| Internship fair | .5 | ||
| Reading Racial Indigestion and Secret Financial Life of Food | 3 | ||
| Listening to On Being with Ellen Davis and Wendall Berry “The Poetry of Creatures” | 1.5 | ||
| Organizing notes, further research into organizations mentioned in articles/books, writing research paper | 3 | ||
| Seminar writing/other | .5 | ||
| Making education bulletin boards about activist exhaustion/movement building to be used in Evergreen housing | 4 | ||
| Looking at other blogs | 1 | 38.5 (123.5) |
| Week 4 | Weekly Activity | Weekly hours | Cumulative hours |
| Food Policy Candidate: Prita Lal | 1 | ||
| Listening to On Being with John Lewis “Love in Action” | 1 | ||
| Seminar Paper Week 4 | 2 | ||
| Continuing to work on research paper | 3.5 | ||
| Reading Spaces of Danger | 2.5 | ||
| Tuesday class: presentations, tea tasting, seminar | 5 | ||
| Faculty Candidate, Prita Lal lecture | 1 | ||
| Rewriting notes from Prita’s lecture | 1 | ||
| Check-in meeting with Sarah | 1 | ||
| Watching The Hand that Feeds | 1.5 | ||
| Listening to On Being with Wangari Maathai, “Planting the Future” | 1.5 | ||
| Writing about reflective writing/Spring quarter/almanac idea | 2 | ||
| Reading Food Transgressions | 2.5 | ||
| Food Advisory Committee Meeting | 1 | ||
| Thursdays Farm Practicum: Pruning kiwis/apples | 2 | ||
| Sending emails to Paul and Amy | .5 | ||
| Reading blogs | 2 | ||
| Writing Weekly updates for weeks 2-4 | 6.25 | 36.25 (159.75) |
| Week 5 | Weekly Activity | Weekly hours | Cumulative hours |
| Writing Weekly updates | 1 | ||
| Seminar preparation, reading, writing | 5 | ||
| Looking at Edible magazines from different cities | 1 | ||
| Tuesday class: presentations, corn tasting lab, seminar | 5 | ||
| Bee Think Tank Meeting with campus clubs: | 1.5 | ||
| Writing mid-quarter eval | 2.5 | ||
| Watched Cooked episode | 1 | ||
| Meeting with Sarah | 1 | ||
| Looking for Ruark Scholarship-lite article | .75 | ||
| Working on Zotero | 2.5 | ||
| On Being- The Ethics of Eating with Barbara Kingsolver | 1 | ||
| Meeting with Paul McMillin | .5 | ||
| Reading! The attached document is the full list of reading that I completed this week, not including anything that is mentioned above. Reading List Week 5 | 20.5 | ||
| Working on website/reading other blogs | 2 | 45.25 (205) |
| Week 6 | Weekly Activity | Weekly hours | Cumulative hours |
| Writing Weekly Posts | 3 | ||
| Seminar reading/writing | 2.75 | ||
| Tuesday class work | 3.5 | ||
| Farm Worker Justice Day | 3 | ||
| Working with Zotero account | 3 | ||
| Answering questions and email from Joel, researching calendars | 3.5 | ||
| Practical Farm Workshop | 2.75 | ||
| Meeting with Amy | .5 | ||
| Food Advisory Committee Meeting | 1 | ||
| Meeting with Martha and Sarah about calendar | 1.25 | ||
| On Being with Krista Tippett and Rachel Yehuda | 1 | ||
| Free writing about trauma and coping strategies | 2 | ||
| Writing tasting lab posts | 3.5 | ||
| Looking at other blogs | 2 | 32.75 (237.75) |
| Week 7 | Weekly Activity | Weekly hours | Cumulative hours |
| Seminar reading | 4.25 | ||
| Zotero workshop prep | 1.25 | ||
| Creating/researching for presentation | 4.25 | ||
| Organizing notes for paper | 1 | ||
| Tuesday class | 7 | ||
| Wednesday Zotero workshop | 1 | ||
| Reading Kingsolver | 1 | ||
| Reading other blogs | 2 | ||
| Working on website | 2 | 23.75 (261.5) | |
| Week 8 | Weekly Activity | Weekly hours | Cumulative hours |
| Reading Rachel Laudan articles and blog | 6.5 | ||
| Finding new resources | 1.5 | ||
| Organizing notes | .5 | ||
| Seminar reading, writing | 3 | ||
| Working on tasting lab | 1 | ||
| Working on POF application | .5 | ||
| Reading articles | 9.25 | ||
| Tuesday class | 6 | ||
| Meeting with Sarah | .5 | ||
| Looking at Appalachia calendar, Stella Natura | 2 | ||
| Practical farm workshop | 2.75 | ||
| Food Advisory Committee Meeting | 1 | ||
| Butoh Performance | 2.25 | ||
| Thinking about trauma and healing techniques | 2.25 | ||
| Looking at internships and graduate programs about critical food studies and agriculture | 1.5 | ||
| Watching Chef’s Table :S2E5 Ana Ros, S1E6 Magnus Nilssen, S3E1 Jeong Kwan | 3 | ||
| Volunteering at Art of Giving | 6 | ||
| Working on outline for paper | 4 | ||
| Looking at blogs | 2 | 55.5 (317) |
| Week 9 | Weekly Activity | Weekly hours | Cumulative hours |
| Working on outline for paper | 6 | ||
| Seminar reading and writing | 3.5 | ||
| Working on POF application | 2 | ||
| Writing paper | 14.5 | ||
| Updating hours log | 1.5 | ||
| Somehow I was able to move a conversation I was having with friends into them drawing their childhood kitchens and telling stories about backyard gardens | 1 | ||
| Writing old Weekly Updates, tasting labs | 4.5 | ||
| Watching “Cooked” | 2 | ||
| Creating art for calendar | 3 | 40 (357) | |
| Week 10 | Weekly Activity | Weekly hours | Cumulative hours |
| Self-evaluation | 3 | ||
| Creating final powerpoint presentation | 3 | ||
| Listening to On Being Podcasts | 1 | ||
| Making pretzels | 3 | ||
| Tuesday Class | 4 | ||
| Wednesday Presentations | 2.5 | 16.5 (373.5) | |