Pascia Offield- SUNY Adk Farm Internship
Week #14: (4/26 - 5/2)
110.65 hours / 120 total hours requiredÂ
Monday 4/27:
Monday began with the usual task of watering the plants in the greenhouse. I then continued to pot up the remaining eggplant into individual pots to sell at the plant sale. Tommy had been preparing a couple beds outside in field 2 for planting some brassicas into. He tilled them with the BCS tractor, rolled them with the bed roller, and then used the bed marker to create roughly 12” spaces between each plant. We got 4 rows done in a relatively short amount of time, considering the amount of plants that was! Row 1 was broccolini, row 2 broccoli, row 3 cabbage and row 4 cauliflower. The soil was easy to work with due to the recent tillage. We then watered the transplants in and covered them with ultra-fine mesh netting to keep the cabbage worms/ loopers off.Â
Wednesday 4/29:
Wednesday, I watered and fertilized the greenhouse, as well as watered the high tunnel. I also went through and organized all of the plants for the plant sale, getting a count of how many trays of each variety we had ready to go. I seeded more greens for salad mix, lettuce heads, and bok choy, as well as zinnias. I also made a really delicious stir fry from the farm bok choy for dinner this night!
Thursday 4/30:
After their final, the Agroecology class was joined by Embark Environmental, a group that focuses on environmental restoration through tree plantings, wildflower plots, tree injections, and land management services. For the class purposes, we focused on tree planting. They were able to donate a few hundred native bare root trees to our campus, which were planted out on a chilly rainy day. There were many different varieties, and some thrived in consistently wet conditions. We planted those around a little pond across the parking lot from the Adirondack Building. The students focused on digging a hole deep and wide enough to fit the root ball into, amending the hole with mushroom compost, and finally topping it with mycorrhizal inoculated mulch.Â















