Day 1

5/9/22

8 hours of work done today. 


Day one. Today we got to the farm and the first thing we started doing was spreading mulch. We spreader three lines by 100 feet each. We’re getting ready to plant 3600 onions and prepare for this we needed to spread the mulch the way we did it. We also did a lot of weeding and I took us a very long time. I never realized how much farm work was and the labor behind it. I’m having a really good time doing all this labor and it’s really showing me importance of hand hand labor. After weeding we had to dig these holes and take out horseradish roots, because farmer Jim told us how the roots messed up plating other produce.






























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