Hours and Activity Log for growing/processing herbs and vegetables, organizing community around gardening, contributing to a more equitable society,  learning natural ways to heal and meet the needs of babies

Week 1

Growing/processing herbs and vegetables

Week	Weekly Activity	Weekly hours	Cumulative hours
Week 1 4/3-4/7	Planted corn, Ashwaganda seeds in seed trays. Read about Ashwaganda growing conditions and about farmers growing Ashwaganda in Northamerica	2	2
	Turned grass lawn upside down with shovel, amended, and top dressed with compost	3	5
	Fixed greenhouse that was put out of commission in windstorm	3	8
	Worked with Edible Forest Gardens (Belgian fence)	4	12
	Worked on ILC/planned for the quarter	3	15
	SOS class gathering	6	21
	Watered seeds and seedlings and plants in grow rooms and in the greenhouse	2

Towards more equitable society

Week 1 4/3-4/7	Read Vendana Shiva’s Who Really Feeds the World	8	29
	Applied to CIELO	1	30

Natural ways to heal and meet the needs of babies

Week 1	Researched baby nutrition books	1	31
	Breastfeeding Class with midwife Stacey Callighan	3	33
	Read Sophies blog posts and checked out her reading list	.75	33.75

 

 

Week 2 

Growing/processing herbs and vegetables

Week 2 4/8-4/16	Made a seed table for the greenhouse	4	4
	Filled seed trays, seeded cabbage, broccoli, and more	2	6
	Made a tincture with home-grown reishi mushroom	3	9
	Watering seeds daily in grow room and greenhouse	1	10

Towards a more equitable society

Natural ways to heal and meet the needs of babies

Week 2 4/8-4/16	Reasearched, ordered, and gathered tools for placenta medicine (see blog post…)	2	11
	Watched PostPartum class Placenta encapsulation course	1	12
	Found Recipe, bought ingredients for labor aid, and made concoction (see blog post…)	1	13
	Read Yoga Mama, Yoga Baby and made a big soup based on recommendations for breastmilk an postpartum healing (recipe in blog)	2	15
	Made calendula baby ointment with last year’s calendula (See blog post…)	5	20
	processed placenta into postpartum medicine (see blog post)	6	26
	met with midwife, learned about microbiome of babies (see blog post)	1	27
	Placenta Encapsulation class with Diksha,	2	29
	Met with Diksha at It Takes a Village to talk more about processing the placenta.	.75	29.75

 

 

Week 3

Growing/processing herbs and vegetables

Week 3 4/17-21	Watered seeds and seedlings and plants in grow rooms and in the greenhouse	2	2
	Transplanted corn and tulsi into larger pots	1	3
	worked on posts	3	6
	Met with Sjoukja to learn about the website and portfolio	2	8

Towards a more equitable society

Week 3	Earth Day planting: Cleared space and planted cherry trees, frost peaches, and black currants at a community garden on the east side (23 trees total)	7	15
4/17-4/21	Planted trees with Edible Forest Gardens at Hansen Elementary (Butternut, Walnut, Hazelnut). Learned about pollinizer trees, old varieties of fruit trees, and minerals for fruit trees.	5	20

 

Natural ways to heal and meet the needs of babies

Week 3	Read Diaper Free: The Gentle Wisdom of Natural Infant Hygiene	2	22
	Made Nipple Butter for breastfeeding Moms	4	26
	Read Susan Weed’s Herbal for the Childbearing year	2	28
	First day of infant massage class with Blissful Birth Initiations	2	30

 

 

Week 4

Growing/processing herbs and vegetables

4/22-4/28	Wednesday meeting with Sarah	.5	.5
	navigating and figuring out website, reading classmates’ blogs	3	3.5
	reading The Lives of Animals	1	4.5
	transplanting tomatoes and ashwaganda into bigger pots	1	5.5
	transplanting echinacea, cabbage, and broccoli into the ground	2	7.5
	researching different local bulk composts, reaching out to other gardeners for advice	1	8.5
	harvesting comfrey, making ointment with double boiler	3	11.5

Towards a more equitable society

Week 4 4/22-4/28	Watched Seed: The Untold Story and took notes	2.5	15
	Workshop Prep, digging plants, transporting trees, wheelbarrows, and fences to the sites	5	20
	Workshop through Edible Forest Gardens internship	7	27
	Making fences around trees from the Earth Day planting at Capitol Vision Community Garden	5	32
	Tutoring with CIELO	3	35

 

Natural ways to heal and meet the needs of babies

Week 4	Watched Microbirth, took notes	2	37

 

Week 5

Growing/processing herbs and vegetables

Week5	Worked on posts	2	2
4/28-5/3	Hauled 1 yd cascade compost to the garden at my house, top dressed garden and applied minerals	5	7
	collected grass clippings from neighbors to top dress the sheet mulch garden	2	9
	Watering seeds/wk	3	12
	mixed witches brew, applied to apple, pear and cherry trees at my house	4	16

Towards a more equitable society

Week 5	Fruit and nut tree planting at Reeves Middle school, collecting trees from the nursery, delivering to different places, planting 4 plum trees at capitol vision. making fences around the trees and applying minerals and witches brew	8	24
	Picking up cardboard and hauling	3	27
	tutored at CIELO	2	29

Natural ways to heal and meet the needs of babies

Week 5	Meetings with Midwife	4	33
	Vaccine documetary	2	35

 

 

Week 6

Growing/processing herbs and vegetables

Week 6 may 8-12	Watering Seeds, seedlings, and transplants	4	4
	meeting with sarah	1	5
	researching and ordering seeds, reading Medicinal Herb Grower	4	9
	working on eval	2	11

Contributing

Week 6	Cleaning cardboard and sheet mulching	6	17
	hauling cardboard	2	19

 

Week 7

Week 7 5/15-19	Seeding the home garden, clearing ivy and blackberry for herb transplants	4	4
	buying extra pickle buckets from SF st. bakery and drilling drainage holes in them. Transplanting herbs that don’t fit in the gardens/perennial herbs that we will take with us when our lease is up.	3	7
	planting willow cuttings into pots. they had been soaking in water and growing roots.	1	8
	watering seeds and plants daily	4	12
	self eval	2	14
	posts	2	16
	mixing and applying witches brew to fruit trees at the house	1	17

Towards a more equitable society

Week 7	Stropharya inoculaiton. cleaning cardboard, hauling wood chips, inoculating.	7	24
	Cleaning cardboard, mulching the orchard, hauling wood chips and branches	4	28
	Picking up cardboard from creative offices (unloading huge dumpster into my truck) and taking it to various places	3	31

Natural ways to heal and meet the needs of babies

Week 7	pouring ointments into jars, making labels	2	33
	midwife meeting	3	36

 

 

Week 8

Growing/processing herbs and vegetables

Week 8 5/22-26	Harvesting comfrey and soaking to ferment in the sun for fertilizer. Researching methods, The Medicinal Herb Grower	1	1
	Researching potting soil mixes	1	2
	buying kelp meal, ground oyster shell, rock phosphate, lime, and pumice from the eastside urban farm and garden	1	3
	driving to buy a yard of cedar grove compost and some coarse sand in my truck. unloading.	2	5
	layering some established herbs to root new plants. transplanting others	3	8
	repotting plants from small-celled seed trays	1	9
	weeding my garden plot at evergreen, using chopped comfrey leaves as a mat to make sure nothing else comes up and top-dressing with compost.	8	17
	weeding and seeding evergreen plot, lots of beans and corn and carrots and much more	4	21
	clearing buttercup from my herb garden at the community garden	2	23
	figuring out the wordpress and posting/logging	3	27
	daily watering of seeds and plants	4	31
	transplanting oregano, valerian, marshmello, bunching onions, corn, pickling and lemon cucumbers, tomatos and basil	3	34

 

Towards a more equitable society

Week 8	Making hugelkulture hoophouse with efg, hauling maple logs and apple prunings.	6	40
	picking up and transporting cardboard for garden projects	3	43

Natural ways to heal and meet the needs of babies

 

Week 9

Week 9 5/29-6/2	Working on Eval	2	2
	Filling out log and writing posts	2	4
	Seeding carrots, lettuce and cabbage	1	5
	Filling out log and writing posts	2	7
	transplanting herbs, drilling holes in buckets to use for pots	4	11
	Planting seeds at my plot at the community garden, weeding and watering	6	17
	Daily watering/wk	4	21

 

internship

Week 9	Digging the swales, leveling, seeding and setting up sprinkler	8	29

 

Week 10

week 10	Filling out log	2	2
	brainstorming, drafting eval	2