Farmers Market

Hi my name is Michael Flores and I am a employee of grow Hartford and I participated in the farmers market to entertain those people who were shopping there. While we were there we serving the smoothie drinks to the costumers. Did face painting on the little kids faces which the workers.

Broad st.

At first when I got to work the first day to my job on Broad st. It was very excited because, well like I said before, I like nature so when I saw the plants and the flowers, the vegetables and everything it was very nice for me. The other good thing is that is very close to my house so I was very happy for that. when Jerica told us to harvest the vegetables I was happy,I like that! I am so happy because it is so beautiful seeing the plant grow. I feel like a mom, like when you see your child growing. I am going to miss my job specially the plants. But I am going to visit them to watch them grow more. Grow Hartford is a very good program.

LAPORTIA MCDAVID

Hi my name is Laportia Mcdavid and i am a youth employee for Grow Hartford .I had the experience of going to the Farmers market on 80 Coventry st. At the farmers market we all helped entertaining the little kids witch included face painting ,hop scotch, a coloring section and making sure they were having a good time .This was the first farmers market on the north end. the reason for this event was to provide good produce for the people on the north end.

Holcomb Farm

Hi my name is Whitney and I am an assistant to Jerica and Chiedza which is my supervisors. Yesterday we went to Holcomb farm in West Granby. When we got to Holcomb Farm a lot of things changed like the fruit and vegetables. When we got to the farm we were suppose to meet Sam which he is the head farmer. Went to the barn we were suppose to meet him at and he was not there he was harvesting in the field. In the time being one of the other farmers told us if we wanted we could go pick some green beans. Me and Yashira another youth worker started to pick the green beans. The others did not want to because it was raining. Me and Yashira had fun anyways. After I got to keep the green beans. Then Sam came to the barn and we introduced ourselves. Sam then told us what we were going to be doing. He told us what we were going to be doing and we were going to cut off the stems of the garlic and trim off the roots. Sam had a whole truck load of garlic and we did them all together as a team. Half of us cut off the stems and the other half trimmed the roots of the garlic and then put them on the rack and spread them out. It took us all about an hour and a half to do them all. To me it seemed like forever just sitting on a chair and trimming the roots. Towards the end of the job Chiedza started to sing and it was beautiful to me it felt like the time was going by faster. Then after we were done with our job. Jerica said that we had enough time to go and see the farm animals before we left. So we took a nice walk and went to the other barn and saw sheep, goats , pigs, chickens and a rooster. The bunnies did not come out I think they were to scared but it was OK. After the group started to make barking noises and the sheep and goats started to come out the the little house. I went close to see a sheep and it got scared. Soon after that we had to depart. Then we took a nice ride back to Broad St.

lessons learned

Hi my name is Kevin Manning. My job where i work is grow Hartford, what we do at my job is work with food. One of the thing we do is weeding also cutting the grass making sure the garden stay clean. The lesson I learned is some of the insects help the plants and how to grow, how to harvest. I learned how to grow different types of vegetables and fruits. Also how long it takes for them to grow. So in conclusion I learned how to maintain a garden and fulfill all the needs in taking care of the garden.

My experience

Hello my name is Yashira Ortiz and I would like to talk about my job, the experience that I have. First I have a lot of experiences in my job. I like the nature so I don't have any problems in my job. I enjoy visiting every garden that we went to. I love animals and help people too. I woul love to be a veterianarian because like I said before I love animals. This work is a very excited experience. I love this work.

Grow Experience

Hi my name is Carl Nguyen and Jorge Mena i just join this program this year this program that i join is called Grow Hartford Youth program in this program we learn about our community. the people that we met were great, they thought us a wonderful things. we made our community beautiful in so many ways. this experience should be recommended for everyone