Week 8

- Filled the raised gardens with soil

Week 7 Vegetables

 Celery

A marshland plant from the Apiaceae family. It is vegetable with long fibrous stalk that tapers into leaves.

Squash 

This is a herbaceous vine from the gourd family. It is native to Mesoamerica and the Andes. There are five species known and grown worldwide that have edible fruit. These species include squash, pumpkin, and gourd.

Carrots

This is a root vegetable. It is typically orange; however, they can be red, black, white yellow or purple through all the cultivars there are. The forms of these domesticated carrots come from the original wild carrot that is native to Europe and Southwestern Asia.

Week 7 Chicken Breeds

 Marans

A French breed of chicken. Originates from the port town of Marans, in the Nouvelle Aquitaine region of southwest France. It descended from local feral chickens with fighting chickens from India and Indonesia.

Silkie

Typically fluffy while their feathers feel silky and like satin. Has many unusual qualities, like black skin and bones, blue earlobes, as well as five toes on each foot. Most chickens have four toes on each foot.

Barnevelder

This is a domestic breed of Dutch chicken. It results from crossing Dutch chickens with Shanghai chickens imported to Europe from Asia. These breeds could have potentially included the breds: Brahma, Cochin, or Croad Langshan.

Week Five

This week we setup of six poles for a tarp in the garden.

Chicken Breeds

Ameraucana - An American breed of chicken. Derives from Araucana chickens brought from Chile.

Brahma - An American breed developed from Chinese breeds imported from Shanghai.

 

Cornish - A British breed of chicken used for meat as well as for show. A heavy, muscular bird, with a very broad chest.

Lakenvelder - A breed from the Nordrhein-Westfalen are in Germany as well as neighboring parats of Netherlands.

Orpington - A British breed of chicken bred in the late nineteenth century. Is now considered a show bird.

Sebright - A British breed of bantam chicken. 

 

Wyandotte - an American breed of chicken named to the indigenous Wydanot people. Has brown eggs and yellow skinned meat.

Ancona - Originated in a region of Italy. Named after the city of Ancona, the capital of Marche.

Week Four

Moved the chicks born on the 30th last month to where the chicken coop is

 

On September 14th 12 eggs were put into the incubator

Measured the distance from each pole, to put the canopy up then started digging the holes

Week Three

 Started to cleanup around the coop and garden

Today In Art 8/25/21

 We had a fashion show in art class.