Weekly reflection (week 1)

 Throughout our first week of senior project I’ve learned very Key lessons of farming. The farm we work at is outside of Detroit Michigan, and us four do a whole lot while were there. We’ve learned the importance of having a healthy water system even if it’s natural or by pump. We dug out big trenches while we were at the farm for the first couple days and had to make sure the water was flowing in at the right pace and it wasn’t damaging the crops. We also planted a bunch of onions and potato’s in the first couple days of us being there. Doing these tasks weren't very hard, they're just very time consuming. Planting onions pretty much took us the entire day due to how small they were, and giving them enough space so they don’t overlap with each other. Somewhere around day three or 4 we had to dig these massive holes 6 feet apart from each other. The reason we had to do this was because they’re putting in a new fence system to try and prevent little rodents from coming in and eating all the crops. Another thing we had to do while we were working was walk this massive field that the farm wanted to turn into a wheat field and handpick rocks out of the dirt so when they would put a tractor through it would not damage the tools. This took us hours to do end it might not seem hard but it was very time consuming and exhausting. I never knew being a farmer would be so time consuming and complicated. I’ve been learning a whole lot about farming since I’ve been in Detroit Michigan.