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The MLK Day of Service is one part of the monthly workdays on Goop Hope Farm, a farm that works to provide experience for new farmers. These workdays take average citizens and help them prepare and take care of the garden for new farmers. On this particular workday, we were laying down new soil for the gardening season about to come. Different people were designated different jobs, from taking the soil in wheelbarrows to barren areas, to spreading the soil out, to working in the greenhouse. I personally was spreading the soil out.

I have learned from this workday about the importance of helping out with your community in their environmental endeavors. By helping in the workday, we were able to set up a freshly laid garden for the future farmers so that it would be a little easier for them when they start planting. Even doing small things, such as cleaning up the greenhouse, will help future gardeners immensely. Through these kinds of events, we can get average citizens involved in activities they normally wouldn't be involved in to help them foster a love of the environment.

(I apologize, I don't know how to rotate the image.)