Journal #3

For my spring project, I would like to tackle something that will provide both academic enrichment and service engagement. Though I have a few ideas floating around in my head at the moment, the most interesting to me thus far would be to get involved with an organization that works to plant and maintain the greenery around the city of Columbus. Whether this is through the Chadwick Arboretum & Learning Gardens, Buck I SERV, or even on my own, I would like to find a way to learn more about different flower species, how to maintain a garden, and how creating beautiful spaces impacts a community. I believe that doing so will help me begin to develop my ability to use gardening as an art form, while also potentially cleaning up an area of the surrounding community lacking maintained green spaces.

I plan to begin this project after returning from winter break. I would like to take the cold months to do more thorough research about possible volunteering opportunities, common annuals and perennials, and how I can make more of an impact through this hobby. This research would be my first step, and my second step would be sending emails/making phone calls/ taking visits to these organizations to try and get a better feel for what their organization looks like. The final portion of that second step would be making a decision on what organization I plan to dedicate my time to. Since these steps would not take a particularly long time to complete, I do not think that it is unreasonable that they would be done by the end of January (Jan 31st).

I am looking forward to seeing how this project develops!

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