SURVEYING

We made surveys to see how many people in our community would support a community garden in their neighborhood and how much they knew about sustainable gardening. Getting people to do surveys was hard! We only knocked on about 15 doors but only got about 4 answers. mostly everyone was at work or sleeping at the time. People we saw on the street that we asked always acted as if they were too busy to check a couple boxes. We did get about 50 surveys back though. About 15 of which came from people around our school. The people that usually filled them out were people at bus stops, people in the nearby park and one person that was standing in her yard smoking along with a lifeguard working at the front desk. It was not easy! I'm actually surprised how many surveys we did get filled out though, we did good!




*ElIzAbEtH*

Surveys

While passing out surveys I learned that it is easier to go during the day rather than in the morning because at that time people are usually either working or sleeping. We went out 3 different days to pass them out and it took a long time to reach our goal to get 50 surveys but we did it. One of the other challenges that we came across was that we couldn't go past certain streets because we wanted to keep it in our community. We got passed these obsticles because we just kept on pushing our selves to keep going and we did it.
Rachel .O.

Walking the neighborhood

We wa lked around and did our surveys today. It was kinda frustrating, because it was early in the morning and we were not trying to walk door to door. So we walked to Columbia park asked people to take our survey. Alot of people we asked didnt want to participate in the survey and they were rude about saying no. So we walked back and seen some people out in there yards and at the bus stop that seemed willing enough to participate.

J.M.

City Council Members and Me.

We, as a group, are presenting to the city council on the 1st of August with our findings. I personally don't feel at all ready, but maybe that's just the nerves talking. We're beginning to write our speech today; I've been assigned the introduction and conclusion. It's the shortest part, but I also feel like it's a really important part. The introduction can either make it or break it, and the conclusion needs to leave the city council with one last thought that will keep them thinking. Along with writing the part, I have to speak it. So I really have to make it something that makes me look like I know what I'm talking about. (Even if I don't)
I feel like I'm a stronger writer than I am a gardener, so atleast that's over I guess. But I have to be honest, city council members aren't my favorite people. Wish me luck.

[IHB]