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I'm a natural science major here at Dominican University and I am one of the

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greenhouse managers.

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We recently got an Excel scholarship to be able to purchase products to make

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self-care packages for students and staff. 

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We grow everything here on campus.

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We grow herbs and vegetables that we been used in these packages.

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Our main component will be the lemon balm salt and teas.

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We have a good amount of tea. We have lemon balm being our main one,

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but we also have mints, Marigold, sage, rosemary,

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spearmint and peppermint.

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As an environmental science major here at Dominican, we've been,

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working to come up with the self-caritas project.

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It's really important for us to do that because the greenhouse is self sustained

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and we want to be able to bring funding to continue to do

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what we do and which is growing produce and making some of the items

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that go into the self caritas kits.

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And when I came to Dominican and I went to Soar,

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they were showing us like where everything was,

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and then we came across the greenhouse and I was super intrigued and super

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excited because I felt like, oh, this is a great opportunity for me to like,

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you know, be hands-on.

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So we have two components to our greenhouse.

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We have our hydroponic system, which is the majority of our greenhouse,

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but we also do use soil to grow our plants. We have three,

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three garden beds outside and it's just regular soil that we fertilize

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with compost that we make here on, on campus. We also

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grow a lot of our produce for ²»Á¼Ñо¿Ëù Feeds,

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which is taken to the food pantry here on campus. Uh,

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we usually provide a lot of salad bowls for them and any, uh,

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fruits or vegetables that we have. So,

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through the experience of working here in the greenhouse that has led me to want

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to start my own business in natural medicine.

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I wanna continue making teas as a,

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a natural remedy and I wanna start making tinctures which are more powerful and

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concentrated parts of plants. Um,

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so me making lemon balm solve and tea here in the greenhouse is basically

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starting me up for my future career.