Ashley's comments

Ashley's having some difficulty posting onto the web, so she emailed her comments.

October 1st class

I actually had no idea that the amount of space that is taken up by building housing developments. I thought that every development had the same format, but i was wrong. And i had no idea that the different ones will take up a different amount another one. I think that this world is so moderized that there will never be a such thing of a farm if we keep up with building many new housing developments and then our food really will just come from the supermarket instead of the farms because we keep destorying them. ITS AWFULL!



The group of 4 videos;.:

Video 1: I think it is great that people are finding was to use ecofriendly pesticides. It will help everyone later in life. With the new round up pesticides farmers do not have to till their croplands to control the weeds which saves them money on the gas of the tractors. Plus it helps reduce the amount of CO2 that is put into the air but 30%. i found that absoultely amazing!



Video 2: I did not realize that the heavy grass on the bottom of a hill on a farm was to help prevent erosion. I learned something new. It is a good thing to have grass of last years crop on the soil to help prevent erosion. Because this keeps the nurients in the soil instead of having to go somewhere else. The bare soil in the deminstration in the video had nothing to help keep the soil in place therefore the soil just went straight with the water and into the jar. That was a really really good deminstation to show what helps with soil erosion.



Video 3: I had no idea that it would take this much time and effort to produce health vegetables in a backyard garden. i dont know about anyone else but i do not know anyone with a garden that carries around a little magnifying glass with them to find eggs. i found that extrememly funny because i can not see someone doing that. And i always thought that building a health garden you plant, water, pick. I did not know there was that much thinking involved.



Video 4: I cannot believe that there are that many people that are starving and die from it. To start that lady looked nuts. but it was said that it is easy to protest whenever yours not starving which is so true. There are so many people in the world that we cannot produce food the same way we use to. Therefore we have to fall back on factory produced foods. And i think it is great that the guy produced a wheat that produced 4 times as mmuch wheat than they would have in new mexico. He is a great person to help out with the food that many people need and we probably still use this kind of wheat today.



Class on 10/22

I liked this class because i like the farm atmostsphere so whenever someone talks about farms but ears perk up. I really could have done without knowing about the spidergoat. That was a little much for me that early in the morning. And to know that that is possible kinda freaks me out because what will them use next? It just made me think a little about how people are producing more of a product by using other organisms. I little freaky. And a side point whenever the spidergoat was said all i could think about was the Simpson Movie and home singing the spiderpig song.