Log
Week One
| Weekly Activities | Weekly Hours | Cumulative Hours | Week Total |
| Attended Seminar | 6 | 6 | 6 |
| Volunteered for Fertile Ground Garden Collective’s work party | 3 | 9 | 9 |
| Created ideological outline for ILC based on introductory plant propagation with the book Minifarming: Self-Sufficiency on 1/4 Acre by Brett Markham, and course materials in the context of an internship at Fertile Ground | 5 | 14 | 14 |
| Created ideological outline for ILC based on the texts: Thinking in Systems: A Primer by Donella Meadows and Diana Wright, Simple & Direct by Jacques Barzun, and excerpts from The Writer’s Journey: Mythic Structure for Writers by Christopher Vogler in the context of course material and an independently run food project based on cooking with oats, rice, herbs & spices, and mindfulness for the quarter | 6 | 20 | 20 |
| Read Will Allen’s Book: The Good Food Revolution: Growing Healthy Food, People, and Communities | 10 | 30 | 30 |
| Read Vandana Shiva’s Who Really Feeds the World? The Failures of Agribusiness and the Promise of Agroecology | 7 | 37 | 37 |
Week Two
| Attended workshop and seminar | 6 | 43 | 6 |
| Viewed peer websites for ideas on how to log hours | .5 | 43.5 | 6.5 |
| Viewed peer websites for ideas on how to outline ILC | .5 | 44 | 7 |
| Developed ideological framework for ILC | 5 | 49 | 12 |
| Wrote Learning Contract | 4 | 53 | 16 |
| Read Tomatoland pages xiii-34 | 1.5 | 54.5 | 17.5 |
| Reviewed notes from Tuesday’s seminar discussion | .5 | 55 | 18 |
| Read Vibration Cooking pages 1-29 | 1 | 56 | 19 |
| Read “Dismantling Racism in the Food System #1” | 1 | 57 | 20 |
| Wrote weekly seminar response | 1.5 | 58.5 | 21.5 |
| Uploaded content to website | .5 | 59 | 22 |
| Read Shepherd’s Neurogastronomy pages 11-109 | 5 | 64 | 27 |
| Created visual cue to understand thoughts | .5 | 64.5 | 27.5 |
| Scanned Images (probably in the most painful way) | 1 | 65.5 | 28.5 |
| Selected quotes to encapsulate key concepts from Shepherd’s Neurogastronomy | .5 | 66 | 29 |
| Planned synthesis of thoughts through the order of quotes and the principles underlying each quote | .5 | 66.5 | 29.5 |
| Wrote project weekly response | 2.5 | 69 | 32 |
| Got my Internship work approved and signed off | 1.5 | 70.5 | 33.5 |
| Dropped off paperwork at Dean’s office | .5 | 71 | 34 |
| Uploaded Content | .5 | 71.5 | 34.5 |
| Logged Hours | 1 | 72.5 | 35.5 |
| Updated Log | .5 | 73 | 36 |
Week Three
| Attended Class on Tuesday | 6 | 79 | 6 |
| Created concept outlines | 6 | 85 | 12 |
| Volunteered at Fertile Ground Food Nook Thursday Shift | 5 | 90 | 17 |
| Volunteered at Fertile Ground Food Nook Friday Shift | 5 | 95 | 22 |
| Read Weekly Texts | 3 | 98 | 25 |
| Wrote Response to Weekly Texts | 2 | 100 | 27 |
| Wrote Weekly Journal Update | 8 | 108 | 35 |
| Attended Rising S.P.R.I.N.G Convergence: 500 Years of Indigenous History | 4 | 112 | 39 |
Week Four
| Attended First Session of Class | 1.5 | 113.5 | 1.5 |
| Went Wildcrafting with Kat | 1 | 114.5 | 2.5 |
| Volunteered at Fertile Ground Food Nook Thursday Shift | 5 | 119.5 | 7.5 |
| Volunteered at Fertile Ground Food Nook Friday Shift | 3 | 122.5 | 10.5 |
| Expanded on Concept Outlines | 4 | 126.5 | 14.5 |
| Read assigned weekly material | 3 | 129.5 | 17.5 |
| Volunteered for the building of the peacock at the Procession of the Species | 7 | 136.5 | 24.5 |
| Wrote Weekly Seminar Response | 2 | 138.5 | 26.5 |
| Wrote Weekly Project Response | 3 | 141.5 | 29.5 |
| Learned emotional sustainability practices and nourishment at Meghan’s Birthday Dinner | 3 | 144.5 | 32.5 |
Week Five
| Attended class | 1 | 145.5 | 1 |
| Wrote Mid-Term Reflection Poem and Edited | 2 | 147.5 | 3 |
| Meeting with Sarah | .5 | 148 | 3.5 |
| Read The Lives of Animals pages 15-69; 85-91 | 3.5 | 151.5 | 7 |
| Wrote Seminar Response | 2 | 153.5 | 9 |
| Learned two new recipes and created meals for myself to experience self care through food in effort to makeup for two Tasting Labs missed | 4 | 157.5 | 13 |
| Documented Cooking Experience | 1 | 158.5 | 14 |
| Updated Hours Log | .5 | 159 | 14.5 |
| Wrote Week 5 Project Response | 2.5 | 161.5 | 17 |
| Viewed Peer Websites | .5 | 162 | 17.5 |
| Changed website outline and edited for errors | 1.5 | 163.5 | 19 |
| Talked with Gail | 1 | 164.5 | 20 |
| Went to library to retrieve a loan copy of desired texts and ordered personal copies for book club with Gail | 1 | 165.5 | 21 |
| Worked in Fertile Ground Garden | 2.5 | 168 | 23.5 |
| Read Tomatoland pages 73-120 with notes | 3.5 | 171.5 | 27 |
| Read Vibration Cooking pages 50-68 | 1 | 172.5 | 28 |
| Read An Experimental Test of the Hypothesis of Formative Causation by Rupert Sheldrake | 1.5 | 174 | 29.5 |
| Read So-called “formative causation” – a hypothesis disconfirmed by Steven Rose | 1 | 175 | 30.5 |
| Edited Week 3 Weekly Project Response and Uploaded | 1 | 176 | 31.5 |
| Wrote Seminar Response | 1 | 177 | 32.5 |
| Wrote Week 1, 2, 3 Tasting Labs | 3.5 | 180.5 | 36 |
| Established Bibliography | 1 | 181.5 | 37 |
Week Six
| Attended Tuesday Class | 6 | 187.5 | 6 |
| Met with Sarah | .5 | 188 | 6.5 |
| Updated Entire Website | 6 | 194 | 12.5 |
| Read “Concentric Rings” by Tom Brown, Jr. | .5 | 194.5 | 13 |
| Read Mark Anderson’s “Study Bolsters Quantum Vibration Scent Theory” | 1 | 195.5 | 14 |
| Reviewed Wikipedia’s Page on the “Vibration theory of olfaction” for context | 1 | 196.5 | 15 |
| Read the abstract of “The effect of background music on food pleasantness ratings” and reflected on the commodification of higher education because I couldn’t access full article | 1 | 197.5 | 16 |
| Read “Speech and music shape the listening brain: evidence for shared domain-general mechanisms” | 3 | 200.5 | 19 |
| Read “As bitter as a trombone: Synesthetic correspondences in nonsynesthetes between tastes/flavors and musical notes | 3 | 203.5 | 22 |
| Read “A bittersweet symphony: Systematically modulating the taste of food by changing the sonic properties of the soundtrack playing in the background” | 2 | 205.5 | 24 |
| Read “The role of auditory cues in modulating the perceived crispness and staleness of potato chips” | 2 | 207.5 | 26 |
| Volunteered at Fertile Ground’s Food Nook | 3 | 210.5 | 29 |
| Read Tomatoland 121-152; Vibration Cooking 71-100; #5 Everyone is Downstream and took notes | 4 | 214.5 | 33 |
| Wrote Seminar Response | 1 | 215.5 | 34 |
| Wrote Project Weekly Response | 4 | 219.5 | 38 |
Week Seven
| Attended Tuesday Class | 6 | 225.5 | 6 |
| Reading: Tomatoland 153-168; Vibration Cooking 103-125; #6 Black Agrarianism | 3 | 228.5 | 9 |
| Wrote Seminar Response | 1.5 | 230 | 10.5 |
| Worked the Food Nook at Fertile Ground | 3 | 233 | 13.5 |
| Read Excerpts from On Food and Cooking: The Science and Lore of the Kitchen by Harold McGee | 1.5 | 234.5 | 15 |
| Researched for music and found New Life by Ryan Zak and PLS Trombone Ensemble Plus – My Girl to enhance multi sensory food experience | 1 | 235.5 | 16 |
| Read article “The multisensory perception of flavor.” by Auvrey and Spence | 2 | 257.5 | 18 |
| Studied the SpiceInc website page on spice taste description categories | 1 | 258.5 | 19 |
| Studied the Best Apples website page on apple flavors and texture | .5 | 259 | 19.5 |
| Ran an experiment to test multisensory perception of flavors and smell | .5 | 259.5 | 20 |
| Reading: Tomatoland 169-187; Vibration Cooking 129-156; #7 Decolonize Your Diet | 2 | 261.5 | 22 |
| Fixed Bibliography Error and Update Hours Log | 1 | 262.5 | 23 |
| Created outline and wrote seminar response | 1 | 262.5 | 24 |
| Read: Tomatoland 189-197; Vibration Cooking 159-185; #8 Unbroken Connection to the Land | 2.5 | 265 | 26.5 |
| Wrote Seminar Response | 1.5 | 266.5 | 28 |
| Wrote Week 6 and 7 Tasting lab Responses | 1.5 | 267.5 | 29.5 |
| Prepared sourdough flatbread with an arugula, walnut, pepper, lime, olive oil sauce to provoke a bitter taste seeming more sweet with trombone | 1.5 | 269 | 31 |
| Brainstormed for prebiotic meal and found recipe to match | 1 | 270 | 32 |
| Communicated with Alana and planned logistics around preparing meal | 1 | 271 | 33 |
| Designed outline for Week 8 Tasting Lab | 1 | 272 | 34 |
| Volunteered at Fertile Ground | 3 | 275 | 37 |
Week Eight
| Attended Tuesday Class | 7 | 282 | 7 |
| Volunteered at Fertile Ground | 2 | 284 | 9 |
| Updated Website | 1 | 285 | 10 |
| Looked at peer websites | .5 | 285.5 | 10.5 |
| Attended Dr. Dominic Lango’s Decolonizing Sexual Theology Through Retrieving Islamic Erotology | 1.5 | 287 | 13 |
| Added images to posts | .5 | 287.5 | 13.5 |
| Talked with Poppy at Fertile Ground | .5 | 288 | 14 |
| Uploaded Content to Website | .5 | 288.5 | 14.5 |
| Site Evaluation with Sarah and Internship Sponsors | 1 | 289.5 | 15.5 |
| Working on Week 7 Project Response | 3 | 292.5 | 18.5 |
| Editing Final Quarter Self Evaluation | 2 | 294.5 | 20.5 |
| Read Neuroenology: How the Brain Creates the Taste of Wine | 1.5 | 296 | 22 |
| Organized triggering passages to demonstrate learning | 1 | 297 | 23 |
| Reviewed “The multisensory perception of flavor” (https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2013.00321) and “As bitter as a trombone: Synesthetic correspondences in non synesthetes between tastes/flavors and musical notes” | 1 | 298 | 24 |
| Posted Week 8 Project and Updated Hours log | 1 | 299 | 25 |
| Composted at Fertile Ground | 3 | 302 | 28 |
| Fixed the Chicken Coup and Talked with Poppy from Fertile Ground | 2 | 303 | 30 |
| Updated bibliography | 1 | 304 | 31 |
| Wrote Week 8 Tasting Lab Response | 1 | 305 | 32 |
| Updated Hours Log | .5 | 305.5 | 32.5 |
| Week Nine | |||
| Attended Seminar | 6 | 311.5 | 6 |
| Redesigned Four Quadrant Mapping of Thoughts from Week Six | 1 | 312.5 | 7 |
| Created concept outline for photoshop design | 3 | 315.5 | 10 |
| Took circular labyrinth image from The Writer’s Journey book cover | .5 | 316 | 10.5 |
| Scanned hand drawn map into Photoshop | .5 | 316.5 | 11 |
| Built layer for each color in Photoshop | 1.5 | 318 | 12.5 |
| Added text to color layers | 1 | 319 | 13.5 |
| Redesigned colors after feedback from community members | .5 | 319.5 | 14 |
| Removed four quadrant grid from middle circle | .5 | 320 | 14.5 |
| Documented sketches from e-portfolio for pdf PowerPoint presentation | 3 | 323 | 17.5 |
| Designed Outline for Presentation | 4 | 327 | 21.5 |
| Added color to digital redrawing of sketches and saved each layer as jpeg | 8 | 335 | 29.5 |
| In Adobe Reader created pdf with all jpegs | .5 | 335.5 | 30 |
| Researched SPAM composting method and documented Black Lake Nursery’s diagram | .5 | 336 | 30.5 |
| Replicated Fertile Ground’s composting system with wooden pallets at different site location | 8 | 344 | 38.5 |
| Redistributed compost | 3 | 347 | 41.5 |
| Took picture and wrote week 9 response | 2 | 349 | 43.5 |
| Reviewed other website themes with live preview and chose Evergreen Hemingway | .5 | 349.5 | 44 |
| Reviewed customize tool bar options | 1 | 350.5 | 45 |
| Added Yellow Linen Background in customize | .5 | 351 | 45.5 |
| Looked up video to add home page | .5 | 351.5 | 46 |
| Added new home page | .5 | 352 | 46.5 |
| Looked up video on how to rename website | .5 | 352.5 | 47 |
| Renamed website name and added cover image and summary of work done | .5 | 353 | 47.5 |
| Fixed menu structure formatting error | 1.5 | 354.5 | 49 |
| Prepared sweet bread for Tuesday Class | 1.5 | 356 | 50.5 |
| Uploaded Content to Website | .5 | 356.5 | 51 |
| Finished Final Presentation PowerPoint | 4 | 360.5 | 55 |
| Updated bibliography | .5 | 361 | 55.5 |
