Nicodemus Wilderness Project -- Global Registry of Apprentice Ecologists

In order to reach my goals for this project, I volunteered with the San Ramon Community Center and Forest Farms to improve the quality of our environment. I worked for them for two sessions of 3 hours each, for a total of 6 hours. Also like the other service projects I volunteered at, I brought friends to work with me. We arrived at the farm willing to complete any task they needed us to do, but all they needed us to do was take mounds of tanbark and spread it around the farm to make it look cleaner and more beautiful and appealing to those that would visit the farm. We worked for a full three hours, spreading the tanbark out evenly across the floor of the Forest Farms preserve with rakes. I had a good time completing this project because my friends and I had a lot of fun and we talked and laughed while completing the project. Again, it showed that cleaning up and improving the environment can be fun. I went back by myself to work another weekend at the farm. I arrived, and they gave me a similar project as before to work on at the farm. To make the environment look more beautiful and healthier, I took tanbark and I spread it around the garden and other parts of the farm to make the area look more attractive. Then, I was to take tanbark and spread it around the base of plants. I worked on this type of work for the full three hours I was at the farm for the second time. Overall at the farm, I worked to create a beautiful place where farm animals live and where the community can enjoy the simplicity of nature. Also the farmerâ€™s market takes place at Forest Farm and so I worked to make the environment clean and beautiful and a place where many people around the community would want to go to by fresh and organic produce. I learned many great things through this service action project. Specifically on this project, I learned that it just doing simple things could make a difference in the environment. Simply making the environment more beautiful and more appealing can change the way the whole area looks. After the project, the farm looked beautiful and presentable. All together in the whole service action project, I volunteered for 6 hours to better serve my community and the environment and to make it a cleaner and better place.