1. January 2025
    • Getting access to land: Designing a compelling proposal and communicating with the individual in charge of negotiating lease terms with the conventional farmer.
  2. February 2025
    • Designing a syllabus: Creating a list of learning goals, selecting readings– research articles and a book, making a structure for field work.
    • Beginning the research with readings, writing memos to synthesize information and learning gains.
  3. March 2025
    • Meeting with the conventional farmer to discuss the proposed study area and reworking it to accommodate his operations.
    • Continuing the readings and memos.
  4. April 2025:
    • Taking soil samples to be analyzed at Cornell Soil Health Lab.
    • Presenting work at 3rd Annual Northeast Student Food and Farm Conference.
    • Field work: setting up deer fence, flail mowing corn debris, broadcasting cover crop seed, incorporating seed with precision depth roller.
  5. May 2025
    • Presenting research at Sustainability Community Meeting.
    • Monitoring growth of cover crop.
  6. August 2025
    • Flail mow spring cover crop.