Day Six (July 29)

Today half of the group was picking onions and other half picked weeds at Kimberton. None of our group was doing onions - we did the weeds. We picked the weeds out of the flower beds so that they wouldn't kill the flowers. Weeding was hard for the really big weeds that looked like sunflower stalks, but it was easy for the small weeds. The hardest part about the work today was trying not to accidentally pull up the flowers with the weeds. When that did happen, we put the flowers in a bucket of water to take back to the school. Also - Mr. Mason's group stayed at the school garden. One group weeded the potatoes and corn, and another group put in a fence around the corn, and said they got really sweaty doing it.

This afternoon we cooked quiche. Tamara mixed eggs, Lonnie was the grinder and chopper and put stuff in the bowl to be mixed, and Ed cut the green bell peppers. We thought the tasks were very easy. We used sharp knives, graters, teaspoons and bowls. We learned to cut onions from stem to stalk and to always cut peppers and tomatoes in half first, so you don't cut yourself. The ingredients were used were: green pepper, onion, tomato, eggs and cheese. After we cooked, we talked about CSAs and how much you can make with the money the members give. Yvonne handed out a tree of what fruits and vegetables grow in the summer, winter, spring and fall. She also handed out a map of Chester County - the map had all of the places where we live, and marked all of the places around here where you can buy fresh food - farms, farm markets, CSAs. While Yvonne was talking, we got called up for our paychecks. They explained why we had deductions from our checks - like being absent, talking a lot when other people were talking, acting out on a trip, transportation. Why do they take out money for transportation? Because they have to pay for gas, the bus and the driver. We think it's fair to take out money for transportation, but we wished they had told us earlier that the money would have come out of our pay. Overall, we think today was great - we had fun, and we're leaving with money! It feels good to be paid for hard work.

Written by Group 2 - Lonnie, Tamara and Ed