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