Week 7
This week on the farm was a lot of fun, and very rewarding/ enlightening. I am always amazed at how much you can learn and progress your knowledge by learning from those around you. For instance, talking with zack I'm learning we are very similar. We are both older and ready to be done with school, we both enjoy doing physical labor outside and like to refine our skills. Zack does framing and carpentry work which is cool we were talking about the reasons for joining this program and both come from the same realization that we want to be able to sustain and provide and rely on mostly ourselves. It's cool to meet like-minded people when I often feel pretty isolated in my generation who seems to only want and receive handouts. Learning from those around you both good traits and habits and bad ones is one of the special things I love about farming. The fact that we can learn techniques and ideas from chip who learned them from elders in far away places is amazing to me, do these people realize the impact on young minds in America they are having? One important thing I've learned is that everyone's got something to teach you, I'm sure it gets seemingly annoying with my sprawl of questions and banter but it comes from primarily a passion to learn and know useful things.
After our discussion, we took off for the woods to plant some Panax Quinquefolius also known as American ginseng. What was interesting to me was the human psychology behind these medicinal herbs. The Asian world seeks our ginseng while we seek theirs. It's funny but true how humans always think the grass is greener on the other side. I always think about things like this, I mean how would you truly know which is better if you didn't try them out for yourself? I am always leary to trust everything I read especially on the internet, maybe that's just the skeptic in me. While walking in the forest to plant the ginseng we discovered some cool mid to late successional species of trees like the Beech and the striped maple. I am a big lover of forests and trees so it's cool to see rarer species and ones I don't know as much about. I am always amazed to see chips knowledge about so many different fields, he will humbly deny his vast knowledge but it's there and I'm honored to get to learn under him. He is a great mentor to us and a gold mine for the SD program.
From here, we saved some tomato seeds. Cherokee purple was the variety. I had never saved tomato seeds before and was wondering how, essentially, you cut it in half and scoop all the seeds out into a jar with your finger. After this, you add a small amount of water and leave it alone in the jar opened for a few days until the seeds fall to the bottom. Drain, dry, and put in an envelope and you got seeds for next year!
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