Garden Cleanup Fall project 2

For my second Ecology Service Learning Project, I decided to do garden cleanup again. For the first day I only did about 30 minutes for the first day. I helped with the compost area, for the first few minutes. Then, after that I helped cleaning up in the parking lot, in the middle of the parking lot. I took out one of the visible weeds in the mulch there. This helps create space for other plants to grow in the mulch. For the next day I did 1 hour and 10 minutes, and I cleaned the chicken excrement from the chicken coop. This overall helped with the smell of the chicken coop. Also, I helped in adding more of the weeds and some of the chicken excrement in the compost pile. This helps add more waste for the worms to make into soil in the compost area. Then, for my last day, I did only 20 minutes of work. I helped out with 2 others near the middle school side to find and dig out the boundaries of the grass near the Mickey Long Center. All this does is make the grass look a bit cleaner than before. It makes it look very clean without all the grass going over the border of the area.

ESLP Garden Cleanup Project Report: Ana Montero

     Hi, my name is Ana Montero. I am in 6th period Biology and this is my ESLP Garden Cleanup Report. I decided to do Garden Cleanup because last time it was very fun and didn't take much creativity. It also did something for the school that didn't require me to get insanely dirty or ask for special permissions. I decided to split my time between two days with one hour intervals.
    Day one of the project I moved bricks and picked up trash. The moving of the bricks was very hard as I am not very strong and had to lift the bricks and drop them over the fence. After I was able to get all the bricks out I had to load them up and move them over toward the compost piles. Man did it hurt! I loaded up the bricks into an already heavy wheelbarrow and pushed it over toward the compost piles. Once they were over there I carefully stacked them up and went along to picking up trash. The trash was very small and very hard to see, so it took a while to get going but once I got into a rhythm I was able to make it go by really quickly. All in all day one was very successful.
     Day two of the project I helped a group pull out weeds. It was very long tiring work but we made it go by very quickly. The weeds came out very easy if you got under the root so two people pulled the weeds and handed them to the others who plopped them in bins and carried them over. After the weeds were gone we got some people to bring over mulch to fill the newly de-weeded patch. We then spread out the mulch and after it was all done we were finished. Day two? Success!

Trash

Bricks all neatly stacked

compost pile with bucket of weeds

Today me Adam and osmar picked up bark and spread it throw out the whole chicken area. It was kindda hard getting bark and spreading it but it was fun. I finished my 2 hours of garden clean up. I. Also finished my 2 blog spots for the 2 hours I did.

           

What I did today was pretty interesting, i was scooping poop on the chicken coop and i was just cleaning around there coop. And after that i was picking up trash from the garden and then we were done for today for an hour and then we pick up all the equipment that we use.Then we came back the next day to finish our other hour that we needed to finish garden clean up,and then we puts some gloves and started seeing what we can work on.Then we saw that we needed to put tan bark and dirt around the free run chicken coop, and then me and my friend Adam and Aron got some gloves and buckets and then we walk to the parking lot a scoop some tan bark and dirt and we filled them up and that what we did back and forwards. After that we all headed back to the chicken coop and we started to spread the molch everywhere because the old molch was already old so we put new ones on. So in conclusion this project was a success and it was helpful to the garden because we cleaned the garden so it could be nice and clean. 

  

                                                       

So today for my garden clean up project my friend and Osmar did the chicken coop. What we did for the project was cleaned the chicken coop by scooping up some chicken poop. After that i just cleaning around the garden and found some pieces of trash and found the tool equipment so i just started to put everything back where it belonged. Then after that me and osmar went to the parking lot and we started digging the tan bark mixed with the dirt mixed in and we started loading them in a wheel barrow then whoever had the wheel barrow went next to the shed where the chickens were and we helped them unload the stuff out and started to pack it in to mix it with the other stuff that was there. Then the next day we came Mr. Bursch assigned me and Osmar and Aron a job the consisted with the chickens and we scooped the dirt into little buckets then we got the buckets again and started dumping them out in the chicken coop because all the other dirt and stuff was getting old so we put the new molch. Then after that Osmar, Aron and I cleaned up the tools and put them back. Overall this was a fun project because it benefited the garden because we cleaned it up to make it nice and clean.

















       

Today I did garden clean up, i clean the garden then after i went to clean up the chicken coop. I picked up a lot of plastic and candy rappers in the garden and some pieces of paper then I went to compose it. Then after I  went to clean the chicken coop and mixed some of the dirt. Then after that I put all the rappers/papers/ chicken poop in the compose. I did 1 hour and 10 minutes of work today in the garden.

Garden Cleanup

For the garden clean up I was pulling out plants that were once alive plants so that the new plants could grow better. I also cleaned out the wood and trash behind the shed. I was picking up wood looking pieces from a pile that I was adding to the soil. It was a really good experience helping in the garden. The garden now looks much better with plants.