Our experience so far
Review and assessment of things done and still to do
We have completed all orders that are important for the horse. Furthermore, we have already had a very exciting interview with the apprentice of an urban gardening shop.
Link to the post of the interview: https://2021.the-horse.education/post/interview-shop-urban-gardening
In the collaboration, we could start with Reshma and Ashish from India. We could already give each other tips and had our first google meeting. It was very exciting and funny. For our survey, we could also ask several friends and families from other countries.
Link to the post of the collaboration: https://2021.the-horse.education/post/collaboration-urban-gardening
The only thing we have to do until our presentation is the brochure about our topic and the preparation for the presentation. We also have to evaluate the survey and post it on the horse.
Experience on don't waste my energy:
Our researches went quite well and we informed ourselves quickly. It was interesting to find all these interesting facts about urban gardening and how it already is in progress, so we made up a few ideas on how we all can improve and increase urban gardening, especially for cities.
It was a bit harder to make the survey and collaboration. We had a little while to figure out the survey tool, but we handled it quite fast. The hardest part of the survey was to motivate the people to fill it up and share it.
The collaboration was great we had interesting ideas and tried to realize them. Time differences made it hard to communicate with our team in India and with a full and stressful timetable it seemed to be impossible to not miss the deadlines, but with chatting instead of video calls we solved our problem.
We made a working hypothesis, which was hard to prove. We couldn’t find any information, so we only assumed.
The good thing is we planned an interview. In the beginning, we were a bit scared, that it wouldn’t work, because of the Corona situation and that maybe the garden shop owner wouldn’t be so open about it. We still went for it. We prepared our questions and went spontaneously to a gardening shop. To our surprise, they were totally open to our questions and we also proved our working hypothesis.
With a lot of planning and good communication and preparations, it all went really well.
Debora and Melane