Self-Reflection on Project Work

Student Name: Wilnelly Burgos Rodríguez

Progress Report on volunteering at the Pro-

Project Name:
Agriculture Student Coalition (CEPA) Atabey Garden

Is it possible to implement and teach sustainable

Driving Question: agricultural practices at the University of Puerto Rico
in Ponce?

• Volunteer at Atabey Garden with CEPA

members.
• Planting
List of the major steps of the project: • Cleaning the garden
• Creating seedlings
• Watering seedlings and plants
• Removing weeds from garden beds
About Yourself:

The most important thing I learned in this project is

that monocultures are not as good as planting
What is the most important thing you
different kinds of plants as we did in the Atabey
learned in this project:
Garden. The diversity of plants can help avoid issues
with pests and contribute to better genes in plants.

What do you wish you had spent I wish I could have planted more often, but I wasn’t
more time on or done differently: able to because of exams.

I believe my best work was carrying donations to the

What part of the project did you do greenhouse. Even though the bags were heavy, and
your best work on: everything was muddy, I feel like that added to the
challenge and I felt great after I finished.
About the project:

The most enjoyable part of this project for me is

What was the most enjoyable part of getting to plant a medicinal plant. It was pretty
this project: simple, but I had to be careful when breaking up the
soil so that I wouldn’t harm the roots of the plant.

I didn’t enjoy the number of mosquitoes in the area.

Even though I sprayed repellent on myself over three
What was the least enjoyable part of
times each time I went to Atabey Garden, I still got
this project:
bit. Maybe CEPA could help plant flora that keeps
mosquitoes away, like basil and lavender.

How could your teacher(s) change There weren’t many days or hours available to help in
this project to make it better next Atabey Garden. Also, having a rubric for the Progress

time: Report would have been nice.