urban planning

Yiling Zhang

USP 2

Dr. Pezzoli

11 / 28 / 2017

Experience reflection

The Global ARC field work that I went to is the Ocean View Growing Grounds. Food safety became the high profile issue in the society for the recent years. Ocean View Growing Grounds is a community garden that focus on the healthy food materials planting technology. Their mission is teaching the community those technologies and solve their objects in order to popularize their idea and also reduce the poverty, unhealthy living condition.

I worked in the garden, we mainly removed the soil mound and then paving over the ground in order to sow seeds in the future. Ice water and the supplies for work are all provided, which made our work efficient. I never had similar experiences before. It is the great opportunity for students who likes me to learn the planting skills and using it in our daily life. This experience has taught me how important for people to regarding their personal and family’s health and also take care of environmental public health of their community. According to course material, this community garden can help the society reach out the sustainable development goal. Helping solve the food safety issue, provide the healthy food and establish more community garden like Ocean View Growing Grounds are the main strategies to make the community garden become globalization. There are plenty of residents from the community has aware of the importance of the community garden was impressed me the most. They were helping and join the workshops for planting when they were free. In my cognitive, only little amount of people are paying attention on food healthy and environmentally sustain. Since sustainable development has became one of the most important category for global development, the quantity of community garden should increase. Also, well advertise is important. Communicating with people by workshops, activities to catch up attention from society.

I would like to address this idea into my career plan, to make people realize the significance and starting build up the healthy environment. Helping residents use the science and technology for planting and help for the environmental development under sustainable development condition.