Abella Cathey

Hello, my name is Abella Cathey. For my visual artifact I found pictures I had taken this year of brightly colored flowers. For my Project Good I am a part of a team called Community Garden (Operation Salsa), where we are working on making a garden and growing vegetables and herbs and a whole bunch of stuff. So far we have done research about farming and food, been on a couple tours of farms, cleaned up our area of the garden, made a compost pile, and have laid down some cover crop, compost, and manure over our garden area. We are also working on making garden beds, have an interview set up, have had great conversations and meetings, and more to come! For one of our virtual meetings we decided to watch a documentary called Kiss The Ground about soil health and climate change. After I watched that documentary, I felt many things. I felt inspired, sad, scared, disappointed, and moved to do something. Kiss The Ground is such a good documentary and I think everyone should watch it. I chose this moment as my artifact because it was such an eye opening thing to watch, hear and just feel. I cried because I was sad, because I was scared, and because our planet is so beautiful. I watched it for the first time by myself which was really nice to have a genuine reaction without distractions. On my T-Popper I have animals, outdoors, travel and more as my passions and interests. These three I think relate best because they relate to climate change and keeping the world healthy. I care deeply about animals and they are really being affected by climate change right now. I love the outdoors. Breathing fresh air and looking at all the beauty around me, but as we continue to do nothing we won’t be able to breathe fresh air or see much beauty outside anymore. I also love to travel and be able to experience different landscapes, views, and creatures but in the future I don’t see that being a possibility. I want things to get better, we need things to get better. We all need to care about this issue now because if we don’t we will be too late. Thanks.