Pacifica Gardens Day 4

Date of Service: March 26, 2011 Time Spent: 4 hours
Action: -Volunteer Meeting
-Flatting Sunflower seeds, Sifting Compost, planting seeds

Next Action: I plan to continue and rehabilitate the beds by planting nitrogen fixers into the soil. There may also be projects involving more planting and weeding.

How am I doing? I arrived at the Linda Mar Education Center for our mandatory staff/volunteer meeting. We discussed the overall progress of Pacifica Gardens-financial aspects, volunteer support, projects, and upcoming calender of events.
There were a number of things including Construction/ Infrastructure, Garden, Programs, and projects not budgeted or planned that were discussed.
Since the soil all around the garden was rained through and hard to work in, I was assigned to the greenhouse, where I was taught how to flat sunflower and broccoli seeds. I was introduced to the Cabbage family, Brassicaceae which included russian kale, cabbage, broccoli, bok choy and dino kale. Plants from the Brassicacae family are all rich in vitamin C and soluble fiber and contains the multiple nutrients with potent anti-cancer properties including diindolylmethane and selenium. The 3,3'-Diindolylmethane found in broccoli is a potent modulator of the innate immune response system with anti-viral, anti-bacterial and anti-cancer activity. Broccoli also contains the compound glucoraphanin, which can be processed into an anticancer compound sulforaphane.