PVU GCE Portfolio

This is my first Action Project for my last term, Food. In this course we are studying food and where it comes from, history of the food and framing. For this Action Project we had to choose an ingredient and write about it in first person. We had to research a lot about our ingredient and the center origin of it. I liked learning a lot about my family's spice. I had run into a couple problems because my grandparents don't speak the best English. Overall it was a cool project, and I am looking forward to doing it again.

Food is my last STEAM course in my freshmen year at GCE. For my first action project, I am creating an organic garden that will be planted in my backyard at home. Based on the location of my garden I had to change a few things due to that fact that I live in the city. My backyard gets a lot of sun so it is an ideal location for my garden. I will water my plants when it does not rain, but I will rely on nature to nurture my garden. I’ve learned in the first unit about plant nutrients, symbiotic relationships, plants, and types of gardening shown by Masanobu Fukuoka. I hope that my garden is going to turn out healthy and stable. I am not going to add any chemicals or pesticides to my garden because it can affect my plants and soil. I was super inspired by Ron Finley’s speech about expanding gardening in Los Angeles. Ron Finley plants vegetable gardens all around South Central L.A. He plants them in abandoned lots, traffic medians, along the curbs, etc. He does this for beauty and to of