Loutet Farm

Today was really exciting, our class was able to go to Loutet Farm and help out a little bit as well as learn a few things. I learned some more about two types of plants being planted together to aid each other. One great example of this is "the three sisters", this is beans corn and squash growing together while helping each other grow. I started off the session by weeding, this was fun even with the rain, but I would really have preferred that it didn't rain, we took out the red alders and the carrots among other things. After we finished a couple of rows we stepped into the housed area where they grow tomatoes and basil, the inside was covered in a fishing net so that the tomatoes have something to grow on, they also use string so that they can grow tall enough to use the net. An interesting thing that I learned today was that you can grow zucchini in the same way, all you have to do is make a sling so that the vegetable does not break the vine. Afterwards it was back into the rain to help with the compost. Somethings I learned include that when stacking the compost it is better to start with a square and then build on top of it like a pyramid,and you have to turn it over about once a month.I filled wheelbarrows with compost so that the others could spread it to create soil. It was hard lifting but at least it had stopped raining. The last thing we did was sample the carrots that we had pulled they were tiny and a little dirty but they tasted really good.