Jesus's Garden Week 1

 I just finished my first week in the 'grow a garden' spring phase project. Despite my preconceived idea of how simple the class would be, thinking "How hard can it be to grow some vegetables?", my first week was surprisingly engaging and diverse. When we first arrived at the planting site, I was shocked to see our first task-cleaning up the garden area, which included plucking weeds, laying tarps to prevent weeds from growing further, and organizing our EarthBox gardening system area(sweeping the garden area and putting the heavy, potting mix filled boxes in place). The EarthBox(which I didn't even know existed prior to last week) is a portable raised bed planter box that can sustain plants and vegetables in proper living conditions, such as proper nutrition in the 'soil'-actually fertile potting mix along with fertilizer and dolomite(a type of limestone used to reduce the Ph level of the 'soil'). We also took some time away from the garden to learn about healthy eating habits and the sometimes fatal effects of eating too much processed foods which has become a serious problem in modern life. I learned a lot from this and now I'm becoming a lot more conscientious about what I eat on a daily basis.  So far, this project is a lot of fun and, although this week was hard, I'm looking forward to planting our own vegetables and seeing the fruits(or vegetables) of our labor.