Some Background on the Project

Case Roos, Craig Bohan, Brittany Hallmark,Yitian Lin, and Ciara Anderson are all students at Oregon State University who signed up for Soils 205 with James Cassidy. One of his requirements is a service learning project and we chose the Organic Growers Club Sunday Skool project. We met out at the farm on October 7th and 14th of 2012 to learn about organic agriculture, how the farm is run, crop rotations, benefits of chickens, as well as the benefits of avoiding the use of harmful fertilizers and pesticides.While at the farm we prepared beds, removed old tomato plants, took down old fencing, and planted garlic. The purpose of this project was to focus on organic agriculture and its effects on soil, plants, and animals. We discussed the importance of maintaining quality soil through texture, bulk density, and percent porosity and the effect that those components have on crops that are grown in the surrounding area.