So today we've already spent a couple of hours straight working on our senior project and the day is still young! Being the cool people we are, we decided to work at Coffee Bean (are you drooling yet?) - selfishly spreading our laptops, papers and pens across multiple tables. The atmosphere makes us feel surprisingly studious, and of course an iced mocha in each of our hands isn't hurting!
So far we've:
-E-mailed about a zillion different farms (since we don't know how many places will actually respond) to see if they'd be willing to answer our various interview questions about the different aspects of farming -so far we've contacted cow dairies, goat dairies, orchards, family farms, poultry farms, egg hatcheries, bee farms, etc! (Who knew there were so many different types of farms out there...honestly)
-Started our powerpoint (we've picked our layout and design, completed the title page, and made a rough outline for the rest of the slides we want to include - ones about our objectives and why we chose to do farming for our project, our obstacles and how we solved different problems, ones including different pictures, etc)
-Tried to update ourselves on the seven different blogs we'd promised to follow ("From London to Land Girl," "The Blog Barn," "Food Politics," "Eat Local Challenge," "My Country Blog of This and That," "Half Pint Farm," and "Farm Tales and Sheepish Stories")
- Set up a meeting with our mentor for next week to run through our (non-existent) presentation and get a feel for the room that we'll be presenting in
-Left a message for Amy's farm to see if there was any way to go back up there and actually work with the animals this time as opposed to just focus on the agricultural side (Note: They ended up returning our call about an hour later and we're scheduled to go up tomorrow around 10:30 to join a pre-existing Mommy & Me tour where we'll get to finally milk some cows, groom a horse, chill with some goats and sheep, etc - aka our dream come true!)-E-mailed about a zillion different farms (since we don't know how many places will actually respond) to see if they'd be willing to answer our various interview questions about the different aspects of farming -so far we've contacted cow dairies, goat dairies, orchards, family farms, poultry farms, egg hatcheries, bee farms, etc! (Who knew there were so many different types of farms out there...honestly)
-Started our powerpoint (we've picked our layout and design, completed the title page, and made a rough outline for the rest of the slides we want to include - ones about our objectives and why we chose to do farming for our project, our obstacles and how we solved different problems, ones including different pictures, etc)
-Tried to update ourselves on the seven different blogs we'd promised to follow ("From London to Land Girl," "The Blog Barn," "Food Politics," "Eat Local Challenge," "My Country Blog of This and That," "Half Pint Farm," and "Farm Tales and Sheepish Stories")
More updates to come soon as our project is due in only a couple more weeks.....(we're not freaking out or anything......)...................
~Jill
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