My essential question was really just a starting point in the world of sustainable food and cooking. I think this was an important element of my senior project but the[…]
Author: Anna
My name is Anna Faulkner. I am an eighth grader at LREI. I am focusing on education inequality. I chose this topic because I realize we have such amazing opportunities and we must share out opportunities with those who do not have access to good education.
Week 6 post 1
I culminated my senior project experience with the creation of my mother’s birthday cake. The cake captured many different aspects of my project in one dish. I used foraged lemongrass[…]
CR 5
I have learned a lot about myself as a person and as a learner this week and in the last five weeks. The more time I spent working on my[…]
CR 4
This week I faced a major setback in my work that I felt imperative to reflect upon. It began with an attempt to make iced tea. I boiled water for[…]
Week 5, post 1
This week came to me along with a number of lifestyle changes. As I mentioned as an aspiration is my previous blog post, I took to making memorable dishes. I[…]
CR 3
As my project has progressed there have been a number of small changes that I’ve had to assimilate to. While my goal was to cook using all local ingredients, this[…]
Week 4, post 1
My daily routines have begun to feel rather monotonous. It has become increasingly harder to find new things to do and ways to make my project interesting for me. This[…]
Critical Reflection 2
Garlic mustard plants grow in small patches. Where you find one, you find about twenty. I discovered this on my first day foraging and it has proved to be my[…]
Week 3 post 1
The weather has been making things very difficult for me this week. The constant rain has made my foraging difficult. I continued to go out and forage but the rain[…]
Critical Reflection
My essential question is centered around providing fresh and healthy meals to my family during the quarantine. This became a very important topic in my life and was able to[…]
Week 2 post 2
This week I made a number of dishes including bread, stew, and chicken pot pie. One big difficulty I struggled with when making bread was that the weather was too[…]
Week 2 post 1
As the week began I tried to expand both my cooking skills and foraging. One problem I’ve come across while foraging is the difficulty to properly identify a plant. Below[…]
Week 1 part 2
I did my next cooking exploration as a breakfast meal. I gathered garlic mustard and used it as flavoring and spice for my healthy and proteinous breakfast dish. Below are[…]
Week 1, part 1
This week I started by cooking with ingredients from local farmers from the farmers market. One new food to me was lions mane mushrooms. Then I began my foraging. To[…]
Senior Project Proposal
FINAL PROPOSAL Name: Anna Faulkner You have already written versions of your responses to many of these questions in previous assignments for Senior Project; you may reuse prior writing[…]