About 2months ago I joined a new club at
ISK called the Greenhouse project, created at the end of last year. The goal of
the club is to raise money for other clubs, such as Friends of Marich, with
which the club is connected. At first it was a subsection of Friends of
Marich but it eventually became a club of its own, working along with Friends
of Marich. The way in which we will raise money is by growing vegetables in the
Greenhouse that we have planted next to the science classes. At first I joined
the Greenhouse for the business experience and ended up also being part of an
agricultural experience. Before I joined the club, it started off with the
investment of volunteers. These people bought shares of the business which they
could possibly make back.
The Amiran Team who provided us with the
Greenhouse and had people come in school for a technical training on a
Wednesday after school. A lady named Emma came in to teach us the basics of the
greenhouse and explain all the equipment that came with the Farmer’s Kit. We
learned a lot of different things like how to clean the greenhouse and how to
prepare the land in order to plant and what each chemical is for. She had a
long and detailed presentation and then we all went to the Greenhouse where we
got to do and see what she was talking about.
In the Greenhouse we now have two
different types of tomatoes, watermelon, sweet melon, chili and red pepper. I
stayed a couple times after school with other members of the club to help
transplant and water the plants; we dug holes for the pants, poured some
fertilizer in it and mixed it. Seeing as I have never done something like this
before it is all very new and interesting to me, it is also a bit hard
sometimes because I am not used to it but Finote is always there to remind me
what to do and how to do it which is very helpful. We now each have to sign up
for shifts to water the plants during activity and lunch time. I hope
everything goes as planned from here and I look forward to the harvest in the
next months.
