Last day

Today I started off with weeding my rows and going deeper into my plants.

After that i began to plant more sunflower seeds throughout the finch line of the farm.

After that I learned how to prune tomatoes.

If you prune tomatoes they will eventually grow into new branches that will form fruit, but most experienced growers advise that tomatoes should be pruned to not only produce larger fruit earlier in the season, but also to protect the plants against pest and disease problems.

A day before the last day.

We started off the day with some weeding on our own rows.

My row didn’t have such a difference .

Next we began to lay compost on the finch line and plant beautiful sun flowers.

After we planted sunflower seeds we learned how to grow/ plant basil.

Once all the gardening was done we walked to the Coan farm and cooked some amazing food.

Today we made a kale salad. In that kale salad was kale, cucumbers, garlic, feta cheese, craisians, and walnuts.

After we ate we admired how beautiful the Coan Farm is coming along.

My favorite thing about today would have to be making that beautiful kale salad.

On this cool day we started the day off with some sun facts about stink horns.

Stink horns is a fungus that look like a finger. Its know as stink horn mushroom. They are known for their foul-smelling, sticky spore masses, or gleba, borne on the end of a stalk called the receptaculum.

After we learned about the stinkhorn mushroom we walked over to the Coan farm and began weeding a few more rows and laying down hay.

Next i took a look at my tomatoes, sunflowers and watermelon and saw what was growing

Next i noticed that my tomatoes wasn’t growing for about 3 days and now i look and my tomatoes are finally coming in.

After i completed my row i began to plant beautiful sun flower seeds along the finch line.

Update on my plants

My sunflowers, tomatoes, and watermelon all have stubs and are all growing at the same rate.

Next i moved on and started to weed the overgrown tomatoes plants.

Once i finished weeding the plants and the rows i took a break and walked over to the Edgewood garden.

Fun fact:

This is a Firn.

Ferns will grow where other plants fail to thrive and most do well in rich, well-drained soil with an abundance of organic matter. Planting a fern garden outdoors requires minimal attention other than regular mulching and water during very dry periods.

Once we noticed the firn tree my instructors told me i can harvest some awesome vegetables and we could cook with them.

With thoes ingredients that we harvested we were able to make a Caprese salad.

It was SO BOMB !!

After we ate our amazing caprese salad we went back to the Coan farm and finish weeding our rows.

Update:

Remember last week when we planted sunflowers.. well this is the growth.

Today was a start of a new day.

I took a look at my row to see what was spoting and my tomatoes were showing somewhat.

After i looked at my row i went over to the other side of the farm and began weeding more rows and laying down hay.

Once that was done i walked the rows and saw some vegetables could be harvested.

At the end i was able to plant sunflower seeds and squash.

My favorite thing that i did today was harvest cucumbers and zucchini.

Here is an updated picture of how the Coan farm is coming together.

On this steaming hot beautiful day we started off with a little 5 minute meditation.

After our meditation we went deeper into bees 🐝 and started to identify their habitat.

We walked back over to the Coan farm and began to lay down mulch in between each row.

I decided to add some more color into the farm. The best way to succeed at that was to plant some beautiful sunflowers 🌻

“Show me your garden and I shall tell you what you are. ”
Alfred Austin

On this hot Thursday we decided to start our day with some leave picking and leave spotting.

Fun fact

Did you know Genetically modified organisms are living organisms whose geneticmaterial has been artificially manipulated in a laboratory through geneticengineering.

Once we got done with the leave spotting i started to get some compost and start rows that have not been started.

After I finished the rows we walked over to the Greenwood garden. Our instructor told us that our garden needed some color, so we began to make gardening labels with the fruit and vegetable name.

Once i got done with my gardening labels I walked back over to the Coan farm and finished off my rows.

That was all we accomplished for the day.

My favorite part of today was when i was cleaning my rows and my gardening boot snapped because how hard i was working. 😂

Today was another fun day at the Coan farm.

I started off the day by having a personal mediation session. Which lead to me going deeper into a plant that caught my eye.

This is a love in a mist flower. I caught it right before it bloomed to be a beautiful flower.

Fun fact

Did you know Love in A mist flower is an annual garden flowering plant, belonging to the buttercup family Ranunculaceae. It is native to southern Europe, north Africa and southwest Asia, where it is found on neglected, damp patches of land.

Accomplishments

I finished composting my rows and laid down wheat straw.

Wheat straw is a sunblock/ protectant for the plants thats trying to grow.

Next I began to design my own gardening row. I decided to plant red tomatoes, sunflowers, and a huge watermelon.

Once i finished installing my seeds into my row my day was complete. My favorite part of the would have to be installing my seeds.

Its been a whole day and I thougth i would tell you people what i did on this hot steaming day.

Today we took another deeper look at the Edgewood garden, and notice somethings we didn’t realize at first.

This is a fig tree. Ficus carica is an Asian species of flowering plant in the mulberry family, known as the common fig. The fruit, also called the fig, is an important crop in those areas where it is grown commercially.

Fig FRUIT is used as a laxative to relieve constipation. Fig LEAF is used for diabetes, high cholesterol, and skin conditions such as eczema, psoriasis, and vitiligo. Some people apply the milky sap (LATEX) from the tree directly to the skin to treat skin tumors and warts.

I harvested part of a fig branch, where there was no fig fruit growing. I had an opportunity to regrow the fig tree.

Another plant that caught my attention was this Willow tree.

This is a willow tree. I noticed that It’s growing sideways because theres a big oak tree growing above the plant blocking the sun so the willow treewont get the proper nutritions it needs. So the willow tree is pointing at a direction where it can still get the proper nutrients it needs and will still grow.

The bark is used to make medicine. Willow bark acts a lot like aspirin, so it can be used for pain.

After we got some cool and interesting facts about our two new plants we decided to head back to the coan farm.

Once we got to the coan farm we began to continue weeding and inserting our rows.

After we inserted our rows and laid down compost we used the information that our instructors gave us and we began to plant our sweet potatoes.

What is Vertical Farming ?

the practice of growing crops in vertically stacked layers. It often incorporates controlled -environment agriculture, which aims to optimize plant growth, and soilless farmingtechniques such as hydroponics, aquaponics, and aeroponics.

It was very humid but we made sure we accomplished everything we were told to accomplish.

My favorite part of today was probably inserting our sweet potatoes into our rows of compost so they can grow nice and strong.

This is how the farm looked after our first day.

Hello i’m Kamya Taylor and this is my blog. I’m 16 years old and i take Edgewood Garden, the class in Xanadu. I will be blogging my awesome encounter with gardening and showing what i learned. Showing step by step pictures and videos on how to garden and the benefits of gardening. This is going to be a great experience for me and it will also improve my health habits.

What Is A Farm ?

You may ask. A Farm also known as an agriculture is an area of land that is devoted primarily to agricultural processes with the primary objective of producing food and other crops; it is the basic facility in food production.

A farm that is owned and operated by a family, especially one that has been handed down from one generation to another. A Family Farm is the oldest way of managing agricultural pursuit in the United States.

June 7, 2021

Its been a week and today we went back to the Edgewood garden and took a deeper look at the fruits and vegetables with our instructors.

Chickasaw plum trees can be grown anywhere in the United States hardy zones 5-9. They require full sun but can grow in partly shaded areas. The fruit of the Flatwood often remains amazingly bitter and hard even after months on the tree.

Last Wednesday when I looked at the tomatoes they were small and just coming out the roots. Now the tomatoes are green and huge and in about 2 weeks they should be ready to be harvested.

Daily fact of the day

Did you know Agriculture is the science, art and practice of cultivating plants and livestock. Agriculture was the key development in the rise of sedentary human civilization, whereby farming of domesticated species created food surpluses that enabled people to live in cities.

The start of something new !

The Coan farm

The Coan farm was so grown out. Couldn’t hardly see the harvest of fruits and vegetables. It just needed a extreme makeover.

There was tons of fresh organic garlic that needed to be harvested so thats what we started off doing.

Once we harvested all the organic garlic we put them aside and we learned how to weed the dead grass and began to make the rows.

Weeding

A weed is a plant considered undesirable in a particular situation, “a plant in the wrong place”. What we had to do was pick up our “ gardening hoe tool” and or use our hands and pick the dead grass/ dead plants out of the ground so we could see what we were working with.

Once we were done weeding our rows and harvesting garlic we cleaned up after our selves, packed it up and went inside for the day. Our day was finished and completed.

My favorite part of the day was learning how to harvest garlic . Harvesting garlic had to be my favorite part because i got to see my food coming out of the ground and just seeing the impact i made on the farm for the day.