Last week I was able to get closer and closer to finishing my project which is exciting because I look forward to seeing the finishing project! I had the opportunity to sit in on one of the Task Force meetings which is where the members of the task force come together to listen to a …
I struggled with balancing my workload this week. I was under a lot of stress from finishing all of my work for Chiwara and completing all of the personal responsibilities. However, I was extremely fortunate to have such an understanding boss, Nate. Nate and my site coordinator, Alan, were extremely kind to me. They alleviated …
Week two with CPPC was productive. We met with the Blue Ribbon Panel (BRP). The BRP is a group of professionals in various areas from the Department of Natural Resources to a retired UM professor. The purpose of this panel is to help select sustainable conservational researched ideas for Chandler Park Conservation Campus. In this meeting CPPC presented researched …
This week has been so meaningful! I was able to get my hands dirty doing different kinds of gardening work. I helped out with the weeding, plucking grasses and other weeds out of the permaculture landscape. I was also able to harvest. As an organization, we harvested almost 20 pounds of fresh vegetables, and we …
Week two I decided to call the convenient stores Fresh Corner Cafe has their products in. I knew it was going to be challenging, but not irritating. People can be extremely rude at times without any cause. I called one store; they kept passing the phone to different people. Each time I had to re-explain …
The project I’m working on is Chandler Park Promise Coalition (CPPC) which is a group of people and organizations whose goals are to restore Chandler Park. The purpose of my research is to find conservational ideas that would be considered and possibly implemented in the Chandler Park project . Conservation is the act of conserving, …
On the 18th, last Tuesday, Fresh Corner Cafe was riding on the money train!! The fresh Corner Cafe partners (Val, Zack, and Noam), Chris, owner of a start up company and I arrived in Lansing at 1 O’ clock . The team still bled blue in the land of Sparties. The break out sessions did …
This entire week was our office’s clean sweep, so you can imagine what my task consisted of. I am a neat freak to put it mildly, so usually I am excited about organizing and cleaning (lame I know). However, I wasn’t prepared for the task that lied ahead. The FOP building is considerably dated and …
This week was slightly different than the rest of my weeks at ROC-MI. My supervisor was out of town so I had to fill in for her this week. I led a new member orientation by myself, which was really cool! There is a new member orientation every week and it is most people’s first …
Haha ok, so this week was very chill compared to our last two weeks. We spent the first half of the week in the office setting up meetings with community members and getting some logistical details figured out but on Wednesday, Kerrel and I went to the Allied Media Conference (AMC). The AMC is like …
