A Day in the Life of an OFTP Student

A Typical Monday During the Summer...
 
8:00 - OFTP students, crew members and staff gather in the Workhouse to check-in and see what work is in order for the day
 
8:15 - Students break into separate harvest teams to harvest items for the summer CSA share, including greens, lettuce, salad mix, carrots, herbs, etc.  Staff members are available to each student for guidance and instruction on harvesting each crop
 
10:00 - Students in charge of managing the summer CSA for the week operate the wash/pack facility and pack boxes for distribution; all other students break into separate harvest teams to harvest summer fruits such as tomatoes, eggplant, peppers, cucumbers and other summer fruits that require regular harvest
 
11:30 - Students and staff prepare and share a delicious farm salad together during lunch
 
12:30 - OFTP students set off, notebooks in hand, with lead instructor Jeremy for a 2.5 hour farm walk, a weekly walking-lecture during which they survey all crops (and their pests, diseases, and fertility) in the fields and greenhouses
 
3:00 - Students meet with their field and house co-managers to prioritize what work needs to be done in their spaces that week; a comprehensive worklist is made by the group, as is a harvest list for the Farm Stand and CSA for Thursday
 
3:30 - Students are dismissed; a group of students stays after to disucuss their plans for seeding an experimental grain plot in the space availabe for their personal creative use!
 
4:00 - Students in charge of the summer CSA stay to set-up distrubtion and interact with CSA members as they come to pick up their shares.
 
7:00 - Some students gather for an impromptu pot-luck dinner, followed by a viewing of "King Corn" (after getting all of their reading done, of course!)