Well this field trip was a flop form start to finish. On the bus ride there we were not able to watch the movie becuase it wouldnt play, then once we got to ECHO we were informed by the staff that we would not be getting a tour of the facility because of the lightning.
We made the best of it though we watched a very informative movie that describe that basic mission of ECHO which kind of follows the same concept of give a man a fish and he'll eat for a day, teach a man to fish and he'll eat for a life time. This organization works with poorer communties in 3rd world countries teaching them how to make agriculture work for them in their particular climate. At the facility is where they do a lot of the experimenting with what grows the best in each climate and how to best grow it. Once they have developed a good strategy they go and pass this knowledge on to people around the world who need it.
I did not care so much about for the movie, I mean it was informative and explained what the mission of the organization was very well but there were a lot of religious undertones and references that I didnt really like, but that doesnt really have anything to do with the class.
After the movie we made lemonade out of lemons and took a tour from the porch, Erica really made the field trip, she kept us all positive and was a wealth of knowledge. Her engergy and excitement was what saved the mood. What I found to be the most interesting about ECHO was learning about how you can landscape with edible plants so that you can kill two birds with one stone, beautify your lawn and sustain yourself also. Another thing that I found to be very interesting was that they were able to replicate many different types of environments right there at the facility, from wet to arid, they could experiment with agriculture for every environment.
One day I do plan on going back to get the full experience from ECHO I was honestly bummed that we couldn't take this tour, I had heard a lot about this field trip from other Colloquium Alum. When I think about how people around the world HAVE to grow their own food it is kind of mind blowing, I do not think that I would be very successful at having to grow my own food. I bought a nine yrs old bonzai tree about a year ago, I killed it in six months, this tree was happy and healthy for nine years and I managed to kill it in six months, I still get kind of upset when I talk about it. It has been about eight months since the tree died and I am about to try again, I have been doing research on possibly growing my own tree from seeds. Hopefully this will work out better than my first appempt.
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