My areas of focus were seeing the sustainability aspect of a non-profit organization and how it functions.

My main responsibilities were to help set up the market during the first few weeks and shifted to helping clean and harvest. After that I helped with the value added program.

My key learning goals were to learn how a non-profit is sustainable.

I believe I did learn how to achieve these goals because I saw how the market and CSA system helped support the organization financially. Furthermore, I saw how continuous harvesting was needed to meet the goals of the market, CSA and orders. I also worked with the value added program which really showed me the challenges of setting up a social enterprise business within a non-profit. I had sent numerous emails to companies with no response.

In my eyes I think helping with the value added program was definitely my most notable achievement just because of the difficulties BCCF faces and that I faced emailing companies to see if they would help us set up our value added program.

I would say the Value added program is something I added to. I also believe I helped with harvesting and the market stand.

I believe it taught me a lot about myself, I always thought making the most money was the most important thing. The farm, the people there and the community taught me that as long as you love what you do that’s all that matters.

I think I discovered that I find harvesting and gardening somewhat therapeutic to me, while I had stress with school and work I looked forward to harvesting to get my mind off stressful things.