Hours and Activity Log for Banana Varieties and Tropical Fruit Trees Learning Goal

Week Activity Log Weekly Hours Cumulative Hours
1 Final class before departure 3 3
Farm Walk 3 6
Transplanted Wing beans, planted Miracle berries and dates 2.5 8.5
Cut down banana trees, remove and separate new growth for planting 3 11.5
Watered and weeded garden and fruit forest 1.5 13
Read Banana book 2 15
Hauled rocks from river 4 19
Planted new banana varieties (Mysore, Mona Lisa, Dwarf Brazilian, Rino 0.5 19.5
Cut extraneous roots from daughter banana trees, transplanted Miracle Berry seedlings 2.5 22
Watered vegetable garden and fruit forest 1 23
Watched the film Fruit Hunters 2 25
Completed pathway in fruit forest using rocks from the river 1 26
Transplanted Achacha, Madro, and Corazon plants to tree bags 2.5 28.5
Harvested banana leaves for cooking (pork wrapped in banana leaves) 0.5 29
Researched uses for Banana Leaves in cooking 0.5 30
Brainstorming blog post topics 0.5 30.5
Read Banana Book 2 32.5
Fruit Walk/Exploration (gathered and ate miracle berries, bilimbi, blackberry jam fruit, acerola cherries, oranges from fruit forest; also harvested a bunch of Dwarf Cavendish bananas) 2.5 35
Worked on website 2 37
2 Uploaded image gallery and edited blog post 1 38
Heavy weeding by citrus weed trees 3 41
Read Banana book 1 42
Walked through Fruit forest in search of ripe fruit, harvested Bilimbi Fruit 1 43
Looked up Bilimbi Recipes, Made Bilimbi juice and Bilimbi smoothies 2 45
Planted sprouted cacao seeds 2.5 47.5
Watched Banana Land: Blood, Bullets, Poison film 2.5 50
Weeded area for trellis, planted spinach along trellis 4 54
Looked for banana recipes in Banana Lover’s Cookbook 1 55
Checked banana forest for maintenance, cut down dead banana leaves, harvested bunch of apple bananas 1.5 56.5
Visit and Tour of friend Roy’s farm 1.5 58
Extended path in fruit forest with rocks with the river 3 61
Research on morphology of bananas 1 62
In the field taking photos for site 1.5 63.5
Tasting Lab 0.5 64
Worked on website 5 69
Weeded and devined banana trees 2.5 71.5
Researched bananas at Wildane in Musalogue 2 73.5
Read Banana Book 2 75.5
Worked on website 3 78.5
Filmed shots for location video 1 79.5
Put together/edit video 5 84.5
3 Tour of Ray and Gwen’s Farm 2 88.5
Huertos Casero Festival 5 93.5
Planted winged bean sprouts in fruit forest 2.5 93
Planted squash in fruit forest 2  95
Worked on website 3  98
Read and annotated scholarly articles 3 101
Wrote “Why You Shouldn’t Eat Bananas” post  5  106
Reasearched banana circles 1 107
Banana plant maintence; cut down dead leaves 0.5 107.5
Read Banana book  2 109.5
Brainstorm new plog posts 0.5  110
Walk through fruit forest and banana forest; harvested red bananas 1 111
Updated website 1 112
Planted and transplanted miracle fruit 3.5 115.5
Planted banana plants, avocado trees, and papaya trees at Roy’s 4.5 120
Worked on site, wrote new blog posts 2 122
4 Walk through banana forest, harvested Java Blue and Kru Bananas; cut down and chopped up fallen trees 2 124
Intense weeding in fruit forest in preparation for planting 6 130
Looked up banana varieties in Musalogue 1 131
Read and annotated Banana Book 3 134
Tasting Lab (Java Blue v. Kru) 0.5 134.5
Intense weeding in forest 6 140.5
Watered fruit forest and vegetable garden 1.5 142
Tasting Lab (FIAH Cavendish vs. Nino) 0.5 142.5
Intense weeding in fruit forest 5 147.5
Walk through banana forest, cut down dead leaves 0.5 148
Read and annotated Banana Book 2 150
Worked on website; made new blog posts, uploaded pictures 2 152
Intense weeding in fruit forest 6 158
Walk through fruit forest, harvested breadnut fruit and papaya 1 159
Intense weeding in the fruit forest (still) 5 164
Covered weeded areas in the fruit forest with newspaper and hay (finally) 2 166
Made banana chips 3 169