UF Extension Reflection Report

In this essay, I will be taking on the role of the head administrator, of the Northumberland Community Garden. I will be writing a proposal letter to the American Community Gardens Association, to try and receive funding for the Northumberland Community Gardens. In this letter, I will give a basic outline of the program development stages, evaluation process, and financial aspects of my organization. I will also include other information that would be considered relevant to understanding my purpose for creating this program.

This website Keep Tennessee Beautiful (KTnB) is an online web-teaching source for recycling. The KTnB’s goal is to encourage “Tennesseans to be more responsible for improving their community environment.” This website offers information to anyone interested in recycling and gardening with compost. There are benefits of recycling, such as bringing new life onto something old. As students of Columbia State Community College, we must be willing to fight for a cleaner healthier campus. We can set an example for the community by recycling. Students can make a website prompting our community garden and recycling center for information on what can and cannot be recycled, and how

It may seem like we will never run out of soil, but soil conservation is a critical issue in Texas today. So if the entire farming community implemented at least one type of soil conservation effort we would widely improve our agriculture benefits. These benefits would include saving energy, by using less diesel fuel for tractors. Implementation of these farming practices could save water and reduce several types of diseases and pests that farmers encounter when planting their crops. This is no time to be cutting corners on expenses because the United States spends about $37.6 billion each year on soil

Recently, they have experienced an influx of waste from a die-off of cottonwood trees in the bosque, which in Spanish means forest. In modern times, the building of dams upstream from the Rio Grande have affected the flow of water which has in turn affected the plants alongside the river. Cottonwood trees which, are found throughout New Mexico in wet areas along the Rio Grande are dying (Smith, 2009). This die-off has created an excess of wood waste that the pueblo has chosen to see as an opportunity rather than a problem. The Department of Natural Resources (DNR) Santa Ana is interested in the exploring the potential for creating a composting operation with the excess wood in order to offset costs of other community projects. The economical goal for the sale of the compost is to create revenue streams for these projects. In order for compost to be a profitable product, an optimal mixture of materials needs to be obtained. There are a variety of resources that would need to be utilized in order to create a high-quality compost and these resources would need to be located and brought to the composting site from a number of different businesses and organizations, such as restaurants supplying food

Agriculture, flourishing nature, and eco-friendly energy solutions, are only a few things we are making into innovative features in Grecho. One thing Grecho is known for is it’s major composting and agricultural buildings. Composting is a big thing in our city, and we want to focus on it because it saves money, saves resources, improves the soil we use for our agriculture, and

The goal of the project is well hearted, and has benifits for the environment, by encouraging recycling and lessening the amount of energy used by making new materials, the tax payers, by eliminating the cost it would take for the county to open a new landfill (which would be very costly), and citizens, by providing compost to use in their gardens.

During this review period, Joshua and his peers participated in the Greenhouse plant sale that grossed over $2100.00. The funds raised will support summer activities for the participants of the Post-D program. Joshua did an outstanding job working with his peers, staff, organizing product displays, and assisting customers with their purchases. In addition, Joshua and his peers

Counselor received the JRSC report back from the session's Julia participated in on July 18th & 25th and August 3rd & 10th.

The second service-learning experience with the DNA club was a roadside clean-up on Highway 16, near Pettibone Beach. There were 18 of us who spent 2 hours cleaning up the half-mile stretch of highway. It was amazing to see how quickly our garbage bags got full. With every piece of garbage, I picked up, I found myself becoming more and more upset. It is difficult to fathom how individuals in our society resort to throwing their garbage out of their windows, rather than recycling it or throwing it in a receptacle. Ordinarily, it doesn 't seem like a big issue, the trash can quickly accumulate on the sides of the roads. This can pose major environmental issues if wildlife such as birds, turtles, and fish eat the trash or become entangled in

This is beautifully exemplified with Kathleen Copeland’s Lifeskills garden at Chester High School. The Life Skills class encourages independence and functional life skills to 7th-12th grade students with moderate to severe disabilities. While Chester High School does not have a school garden, Kathleen was inspired by the PUSD garden workshops last year and input from fellow staff members to start a garden at CHS with her Lifeskills class. She shared, “ I felt that a garden would offer a

As the Community Relations Support Team Leader, I helped with an initiative to bring composting and recycling to the Vinton, Iowa campus. I wrote an article to promote the initiative in the Vinton Eagle. This

I called the constituent and she complained about the DHS "is ripping off her SNAP for years." She know other people that make more money that she does and is receiving a lot more benefits.

An experience that has greatly influenced my understanding of the world has been my participation in Florida Atlantic University’s Pine Jog Fellowship. The Pine Jog Fellowship is a three-semester program that focuses on environmental improvement and education. In the Pine Jog Fellowship I have had the opportunity to develop my own environmental service projects that would benefit my community. During one semester of my fellowship, I coordinated beach clean-ups for Lake Worth Beach. I recruited over sixty people and collectively, we recycled and threw away over one hundred pounds of trash off of Lake Worth Beach. I also spoke to local fishermen and educated them on the dangers of throwing monofilament fishing line into the ocean. During the

TSA OSHE is advocates of composting, but TSA OSHE cannot be involved in the proposal or the decision for the addition of this program with any perspective parties. We can, however, provide some support in the general education of how composting works and benefits to

To finalize, I want to repeat some of the reason to follow The Harris County Garbage Ordinance 301. Complying with this ordinance will help our neighborhood to be cleaner, and will help us to have a better life quality. It is important to recognize that different types of garbage, organic, non-organic, recyclable and non-recyclable, need to be set in the proper containers and taker to the right places. This is achieved with the colored garbage bins. This bein will make our garbage classification task really easy. Additionally, this practice, the garbage classification, will set us at the same level