May 13, 2009

This is the third day of my research assistant role of the Youth Gardening Project. Today's location was at the Tuskegee University Chambliss Building(old business bldg) and the Macon County Farmers Market. We all meet with Mr. Pace--the coordinator of the market--to discuss some of the upcoming ideas to promote the awareness of the local farmer's market. The agenda for today was to complete the monthly newsletter for the Macon County Farmers Market and articles related to gardening with the elderly, youth, and farmers market. I worked along side the other research assistants--Aminat Babalola, Sarethia Grant, Ashton Wells--to complete the monthly newsletter. My newsletter contributions included the sections: Recipe and Meet The Farmer. We each picked an entity that we will contribute to the Macon County Farmers Market website. I am responsible for supplying a list of weekly produce that will be offered at the market each week. The other research assistants including myself completed ten articles on the topics of gardening with the elderly, community gardening, gardening with children, and farmers market.