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Uh Oh! I made a woopsies. I did a check up on the Evergreen State College website ILC page to just graze my eyes over credits per hour… I’ve been doing 20 hours a week thinking that suffices for 12 credits and its only for 8, I need 30 per week!! That’s okay though, my hours at celebrate are increasing each week and I can choose to do more hours at Farm to Fit. I think an academic component would be beneficial though, so each week here on out I’ll be working with readings and outside work.
To get some inspiration on how to form a bibliography and in general ways to use wordpress I spent some time overlooking all of my classmates blogs and I am so impressed!! There are some people out there doing tremendous work, I really enjoyed reading. Some highlights I learn were:
- Hormones in flowers that help them, but can also be used for us medicinally
- Somebody is working with hops and beer! What a dream, loved their instagram
- What rearing insects is and how insects wings/antennas are prime identification markers
- Pruning trees helps with sunlights ability to photosynthesize the plant
- What biochar is and its benefit to soil. Reminded me of how volcanic ash soil can be beneficial to plants so this would make sense
- “slow” fashion vs “fast” fashion
- A student literally drafted designs of nurseries.. so neat. I can’t even draw stick figures
- A pre-school in Seattle based solely outside, reminded me of my internship, educating youth on agricultural and ecological concepts are crucial
- Fungivores!! That’s a thing! cheese mites too
- The honesty of stress/anxiety from steering your own ILC.. felt that on a spiritual level
As for academia, I did some research on potential texts or articles I will read through in the upcoming weeks on my own time to play catch up with hours. These writings will focus on the concept of the “local” and “natural” food movement, how/why we got here and some systems making it happen! Hopefully I find some based solely about Portland
- Food Politics: What Everyone Needs to Know by Robert Paalberg
- The Industrial Diet: The Degradation of Food and the struggle for Healthy Eating by Anthony Winson
- Food Tourism and Regional Development: Networks, Products and Trajectories by Collin Michael Hall and Stefan Gossling
- The Political Economy of Food and Finance by Ted P. Schmidt
I will aim to read these texts in order, not in full but there are many crucial chapters in each book pertaining to my studies. It was hard to find texts specifically on Portland so I may just exclude that to research days!