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After growing up with a grandfather who “prepares” his farm for harvest, I learned that I will need to do the same with my lessons. In order to grow fruitful and productive students, I will need to take the extra steps to plan the lessons in advance that my students will be learning. I believe that my culture will help me be able to see how everyone’s culture differs family to family. I hope to be a teacher that my students can not only trust, but also most importantly rely on. I want my students to feel this way, because it is a value that my family and myself think highly of.

This helps us understand why Heaney has chosen to talk about his past and digging. The continuation of farming from Heaney's grandfather, to Heaney's father, "the old man could handle a spade. Just like his old man" shows the reader that country life is very family orientated, and professions are often carried down from father to son. The images of Heaney's father being taught to dig by his father are very powerful and effective, because they show the reader the strong bonds between humanity on a farm, and that human nature has not changed. The last line, "The squat pen rests.

Agricultural Education was established on the three-circle model that includes classroom/laboratory, Supervised Agricultural Experience (SAE), and FFA (formerly Future Farmers and America). Agricultural education allows students to learn about agricultural practices in the classroom and then apply those practices to their supervised agricultural experience (SAE) and FFA (Georgia Agricultural Education, 2011). Through this type of learning students gain hands-on experience in the industry and are able to learn more about agriculture. The students in agricultural classes are thought to be “…the change-makers in our society” (Tesch, 2006, p. 93). Agricultural Education and FFA strategy includes learning by doing.

As an an ambitious and goal oriented individual searching to not only find a career in agriculture but a problem to solve, I am driven, passionate and motivated to help bridge the gap that farmers and consumers face. I hope to build upon the idea of learning by doing by using the hands on experiences that the AFA Food Institute will instill upon me. By participating in the AFA Food Institute, my desire to expand upon my knowledge of agriculture, specifically, the farm to table movement, will be fulfilled as I will be given ample opportunities to see directly what happens once the food turns from raw ingredients to the packaged good that sits on your local grocery store shelf. By learning not only from professionals but my peers as well, we can work together to achieve our agriculture and food career goals. Additionally, I know this experience will offer me opportunities to open my eyes to the diverse food industry that will aid me with my agricultural education goals.

I am being put in different departments to do different tasks. I took on this internship in order to gain more hands on learning experience on how nursery’s and greenhouse are ran. In the future I want to own my own greenhouse or nursery. This is great experience and gives me hands on learning experience. I also hold a status as a working farm hand on my family farm.

Henry David Thoreau was testing transcendental values when he took up residence at Walden Pond in 1845. During his time of simple living at the pond, he studied nature and applied those observations to humans and everyday life. He was always learning from the woods, pond, meadows and animals in the natural world around him. Nature was his classroom and everything was an opportunity to learn. In Thoreau’s book, Walden , written at the pond, he theorized that education could come through an intimacy with nature and the end of education would come with death.

He realizes the hard work that needs to be done, such as feeding the sheep, the horses, going to get woods, chopping woods, bringing it in to start a fire, so it could keep the house warm, bringing in water and so much more. I try to make him understand my culture of living on the reservation, and also living in town. I believe I owe it to my grandparents who have taught me how to live, and be myself and not be someone I cannot be. I know my grandfather would be proud of me. With the education I receive, he would want me to go back to the reservation, and encourage my people to further their education, without losing their Native culture.

He must heal his own ego to go on with life, but Andy must also heal his arm and teach his body how to do daily tasks such as writing and working with his cattle. This removal from his former self puts Andy through many stresses which help to lead to his need to be restored as a member of his community. In order for Andy to be restored into his community first off he must move back to the place he originally called home. Andy faces each of these ways of remembering through the novel and must achieve each in order to be happy again. Andy remembers times that he was not even present for but has heard the stories enough that he knows the order of events fairly well and events of his own life.

The idea of social integration can seem very board, but when applied to the story of ‘The Harvest’ it complements the story very well. Even though each family within the community was different, they all shared so much in common. The children who were followed in the documentary were all divergent in their own way, but they all had a desire to help their own family. There was a boy who was interviewed in the documentary who shared his thoughts about why he goes out into the field’s every day to pick crops. He shared that he felt compelled to help his family.

The Arizona Learning Organization as a program has adopted the mission statement of: The duty and responsibility to pass on agriculture education, so that others may be empowered to carry on and shoulder that knowledge until they are ready to teach their kills to a diverse workforce in the community of Yuma; which has the primary focus of educating community members about agricultural programs as an investment for the community (The Arizona Learning Organization, 2013). The community must understand that “Agriculture is also at the center of the debate about genetically altered food, trade, and globalization. Developing more sustainable agricultural systems will be required to reduce the impact of agriculture on the environment…” (Robbins & Sage, 2007, p.13). Only through a policy of investing funds into the Learning Organization can the community be educated through outreach programs. This is a public relations campaign it is directed towards the attitudes of small community members; the purpose is to inform high school students about the importance of agriculture education.