Week 6 report

I thought that the guest speaker was awesome. He was pretty funny and very informative and definatly knew what he was talking about. You can tell that he loved his job and had a lot of passion towards it. Not only did he teach us about farming but showed that you can follow your dream as he did, a city kid growing up to be a farmer. I also loved the part in the video of the 3 system highway which greatly reduced traffic since i am very impatient on the road.- John

Last class was very interesting where I learned a lot of stuff I didn’t know; that our guest speaker Danny Blank, farm manager at ECHO informed us about. The reasons why edible landscaping is important, because everything is fresh, an excellent source of nutrition, save money, etc... The big three things for stabling and gardening, which were: water/irrigation, mulching, and fertilizing. Also the video that talked about how in Brazil, Curitiba had roads to minimize traffic and city circulation gained time. –Yissel Ortega

Class on 2/27/2012 was very interesting.  The guest speaker that we had gave some very interesting information on edible landscaping.  I have always wanted to know more about how to grow some of my own food in the yard but just haven't had the time to research how.  the information that he gave us will be very valuable to me in trying to create some of my own edible landscaping.  I am very excited for our next field trip to learn even more valuable tips on this topic.  I also found the video to be very interesting.  the way that they were able to free up the flow of traffic while speeding up the flow of public transportation was incredible, and they were able to do it while increasing the amount of pedestrian walk space.  I feel that this is something that many of our larger cities could learn from... Colin Baesler