Specification
April first was the marker for the beginning of this output, the original due date for completion and submission was May the 15th; but as I will explain, the due date was extended. This output is focused on a healthier respect for water and the sun, two major players in my passion at this point, growing vegetables. I love vegetable gardening, there’s not much that makes me happier at this point in my life. I could even go as far as to say that growing most plants gets me going. Planting them, feeding them, watching them grow, and the reward of the harvest, it’s all so gratifying for me. It makes me feel so productive, even that much more important. Not everything I did for op4 was about gardening, although it was the one thing that kept me stable throughout the past two months. The projects are varied but have a similar theme for the respect of nature and it’s processes. The first few projects were located at my mother’s property and home in Quincy, California, a small mountain town in the middle of the Sierra Nevada’s. These consisted of a small creek enhancement project, building large keyhole gardens, and renovating a southern facing room into a solarium. While I was in Quincy, I was interviewed on the radio about what my path to sustainability looked like and wrote a piece for the local paper on water stewardship. The projects at home are continuing my greenhouse production, starting the vegetable garden and starting to build a comprehensive multi bayed composting system. Towards the end of the output packet cycle I was plagued with a dead computer, to make a long story short liquid damage to my computer shorted the whole thing out and killed it, it cost me $1,600.00 and many hours developing my op4, not to mention some of the other info on the computer. So I started over, and this is the result.