Garden
Monday September 9th
New Ark
Arrive 5:40pm Depart 7:35pm 1h 55m
Today it was my first time going to the New Ark garden. I left home at about 4:50pm and it took me almost an hour to find Smith Street. I wanted to make sure I was on time because I never knew there were community gardens in the South, and did not know what to look for. I went to McKinley Middle right around the corner from the garden and still passed up the street about ten times. (It made me feel so blind because I know I looked past that street sign multiple times.) My GPS would not get signal so I had to try and find a map on my phone with my extremely horrible Sprint service. I stopped literally one street over for about 15 minutes and waited for my internet to load up the map. Once I found out where the street was I then turned down Smith Street and drove straight past the small garden, not noticing it until I saw Author waving to tell me to turn around. (For some reason I thought it would be bigger.) Seeing the Garden I expected it to be in worse condition because in class it was stated that the garden owners did not have time to keep the gardens up as much due to their schedules. (It was neatly set up.) The garden had three sections for plants to be grown. Two sections were neatly squared off with cinderblocks, and the other section had a tarp looking thing on it with neatly cut holes to allow the plants to grow out of them. (I thought this was very creative.) Author briefed me on how to weed plants and what to pick and what I should leave in the ground. Bugs began to crawl on my feet because for some reason I chose to wear flip flops to the garden. (I do not know what I was thinking when I chose flip flops.) I recognized my other class mates and they begin talking to me about school and numerous things like class, and how Monday gardens would be the only ones most of us could make. One of my classmate, (I think her name was Bevin. I am horrible with names.) brought along her sister who
New Ark
Arrive 5:40pm Depart 7:35pm 1h 55m
Today it was my first time going to the New Ark garden. I left home at about 4:50pm and it took me almost an hour to find Smith Street. I wanted to make sure I was on time because I never knew there were community gardens in the South, and did not know what to look for. I went to McKinley Middle right around the corner from the garden and still passed up the street about ten times. (It made me feel so blind because I know I looked past that street sign multiple times.) My GPS would not get signal so I had to try and find a map on my phone with my extremely horrible Sprint service. I stopped literally one street over for about 15 minutes and waited for my internet to load up the map. Once I found out where the street was I then turned down Smith Street and drove straight past the small garden, not noticing it until I saw Author waving to tell me to turn around. (For some reason I thought it would be bigger.) Seeing the Garden I expected it to be in worse condition because in class it was stated that the garden owners did not have time to keep the gardens up as much due to their schedules. (It was neatly set up.) The garden had three sections for plants to be grown. Two sections were neatly squared off with cinderblocks, and the other section had a tarp looking thing on it with neatly cut holes to allow the plants to grow out of them. (I thought this was very creative.) Author briefed me on how to weed plants and what to pick and what I should leave in the ground. Bugs began to crawl on my feet because for some reason I chose to wear flip flops to the garden. (I do not know what I was thinking when I chose flip flops.) I recognized my other class mates and they begin talking to me about school and numerous things like class, and how Monday gardens would be the only ones most of us could make. One of my classmate, (I think her name was Bevin. I am horrible with names.) brought along her sister who