Hello folks, the weekly update is here.  This week was winter break for me, so I was not as active with this project as I could have been, but I have been thinking about what direction I want to take the second half of the course.  I addressed this in last weeks post, so I will not be redundant and talk about the same things that I did last week.  I will say that I have to do a little talking with my mentors about what direction I want to take this half, and I will let all of you know about that in next weeks post.   

Here it is, the first of many Sunday updates to all of you out there wondering what this group of Vermont high school students are doing to explore the Vermont family farm.  This week has been the first week since we met to receive the tech kits that Mr. O'Leary put together for us.  And during that week, I have been thinking about what I want to focus on for my project.  In the first stage of the course, I focused on the effects that GE products would have on the Vermont Family Farm, but for the second part of the course, I am thinking I might want to explore a different area of the Vermont Family Farm.  I have been interested in some of the new practices, technologies, and methods that have been developed or used recently.  Some of those include no till, using perennial grasses as cover crops, methane digesters, and to tie it back into the first half of the year, GEs.  I still have a little planing to do to see if this will work out, but I will keep all of you posted about the next project.