WP harvest day #3, and first day of our internship

Yesterday on June 30th, 2012 was our third harvest day. Even though there was a big storm, but i still managed to come. I met Mr. Mikuski's wife's sister and she was from Germany. She helped out at the garden and also had a chance to harvest with us. We had to wait until the storm was over to pick our vegetables which took us about 30 minutes, but it was worth it. These are some of the things we picked listed below:

1). Beets
2). peppers(both yellow and green)
3). Tomatoes
4).Lettuce
5).  zucchini squash

After we picked our vegetables, we did a little weeding to kill some of the plants that weren't supposed to be there. Luckily, we did'nt have to water because there was so much rain.

That was Sunday. Today, Monday, was the first day of our paid internship. Mr. Mikulski found a way to have CPS pay us for our work in the garden. So, we started by doing a survey for our internship that mostly talked about how we carry ourselves. We had snacks and water before we went outside to plant. We planted salads and corn. Even though it was so hot outside i still wanted to plant so that our garden can become a big success. There were alot of bees outside that i never seen before that kind of made me scared. We drunk water so that we would'nt become dehydrated. After, we planted we watered it, because the sun was out and our plants can become thirsty without water.

Fertilizing and the downtown trip

Today, we watered all the plants in the garden, then we went inside to water all the plants. After, we fertilized all the plants which kind of turned out to be a success with just a couple rows to fertilize, but we ran out of fertilizer. We really didnt have a chance to water the fertilizer, but its okay because we will do it. After an hour or so in the garden we went downtown to the chicago public school building to fill out an application for the cte internship, so that we can earn money for all the hardwork we have done in the garden. After Mr. Mukulski took us out to eat at a place called Ducks which is located downtown. We had a cheeseburger with fries and a small pop, the food was good and i really appreciated it. When everything was over we took the green line home from downtown, and i thought that was a very good first experience for me because i never did it before.( Sorry there were no pictures).

The Chicago Cares Organization

On monday, June 18th, 2012 there were different organizations that came out to help us with our vegetable garden. There were organizations like Chase, Toyota, and other companies. When i first arrived there, there were many people i saw that were from the chicago cares organization. I was surprised to see that many people. There were alot of tools there that i never saw before and i was so amazed. I met new people and showed them a tour around the garden. I named all the vegetables we grew, and i also showed them how we planted it. They were so kind to leave us vegetables to grow in our garden.




They provided us snacks and water. We grew more vegetables and put mulch around the plants to help it stay healthy, and watered it. Some of the people in the chicago cares organization built picnic tables and tables so that we can keep our food on it, so that it wont have to stay on the ground. We built a sign for the garden. We used wheel burrows to collect all the mulch and soil for the plants. We planted 6 fruit trees.
 I had a chance to take one person from the organization, Courtney, on a tour in our school and i showed her all the classes in the building and she was amazed. I had a chance to talk to alot of the people from the organization about myself and i answered alot of questions, but the good part about is that the questions were interesting.  After we planted and watered everything we started hoeing, to make sure that there were no dead plants or big rocks that would prevent our vegetables from growing. It seemed like a big success.


 After all the hardwork we cleaned up the garden and we enjoyed lunch, we had subway. My very own principal Mr. Hordon came and talked to us about our school and how it was a turnaround school. He recognized the garden as a success and thanked the members and also the sponsor of the garden. It was very fun and we should do this again because i really learned something out of this and i appreciate coming out every week to keep our garden looking good.