Last week was a weird week. I was pretty sick all week so I worked from home when I could, and my only day in the office there was a board meeting and a farm stand.

I spent a lot of my week making signs for the farm stand as well as collecting community resources and creating a recipe card to give out with the vegetables.

Overall, the week was pretty slow and for the first time since I got to ECDI I didn’t have any more projects to think about.

My bosses really encouraged me to get rest last week since I was sick, but I noticed I did not do well taking their advice. I felt bad for missing work, meetings, and projects.

But Friday was really wonderful, I even brought my brother to help at the farm stand. We met a lot of community members and were even invited to a neighborhood biker club next Thursday. It was great to actually get to talk to folx in the Devon Triangle neighborhood and we were able to pick their brain about how we can better help them.

For this farm stand we changed the usual time from 12-2:30, to 3:30-5:30, to try and reach more community members. However, it was really difficult to get ECDI volunteers to help harvest and pass out veggies during this time block. Unfortunately, it does feel like we may have to move it back to the original times because John can’t do the farm stand by himself, and I leave in just a few weeks.

As my last day approaches, I have reflected on the initial goals for the garden, and we have taken quite a ride away from them. Even a few weeks ago when we revisited them and made plans, more options and more opinions crept in, and we had to change our focus. I hope that we can still order a banner and that we have the volunteer page up before I leave. A new goal I have before I leave is to create a reflection for the next garden intern so that they will hopefully find it easier to pick up where Arvind and I left off.

I am still unsure for what this next week has in store, but I am excited for our Wednesday Columbus Foundation session and as always I’m grateful I work at such a wonderful organization!