As of right now, it has been roughly 5 weeks since we first started growing our tomato plants. Iʻm excited to be able to raise plants of my own, especially with the gardening that my grandma already has me doing on the weekends. Iʻm nervous that I may do something wrong during the course of growing it and it ends up dying. Iʻm more than used to taking care of plants, but Iʻve never actually put the seeds in the ground and started it from scratch. Iʻm going to follow and adjust my procedure accordingly to ensure that my tomato plant lives to fruit.
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In our 2nd quarter, we began to learn about the importance of foods. Where they come from, were they processed, how many hands touched the food, etc. Mr. Balake decided to give us the task of eating a meal made from 100% locally sourced ingredients. For some this can be a challenge because of the lack of local foods nowadays, when nearly everything we eat was imported from somewhere. Though it wasnʻt too much of a challenge for me. For my meal I decided to eat laulau and ʻulu chips. The pig for the laulau came from a good friend of mine who raises pigs in his yard, while the ʻulu came from my uncles yard. My uncle prepared the chips for me, while I gathered the ingredients for the laulau and cooked it myself in the oven. From this assignment I learned that it takes work to be able to eat a locally sourced meal in todayʻs society. Not only is it much easier to just go to someplace like Costco and buy all your food there, but without my friends and family I most likely wouldnʻt have been able to complete this assignment, unless I just wanted to make a fruit salad out of the fruit I have in my yard. The amount of local sources of food tells us how much we need to produce and support it.Just last week my class went on a field trip to Waimanalo, to a completely organic farm. This farm has been organic certified since 2009. According to one of the farmers, one of the most important parts of having an organic farm is making sure that the soil is healthy and includes only organic matter. On this trip I found out something that was pretty interesting to me. Normally when people think organic, they usually think without pesticides, but with organic farms there are a few exceptions to this rule. They never use synthetic fertilizers but will use safer methods as a last resort. On the farm we visited, we saw many different species of plants along with the many variations that came with it such as a kalo plant called Koa Haole.
In the beginning of 1st quarter, we talked different aspects of culture. Just like our own, many cultures around the world are being lost to time & history. The language, history, and practices are starting to fade as people pay less attention to them. To me, this raised the importance of Hawaiian culture along with many cultures that share similar history to us. The terms Mālama
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