{"id":5298,"date":"2011-07-25T08:54:00","date_gmt":"2011-07-25T15:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev-clm-blog.pantheonsite.io\/?p=5298"},"modified":"2011-07-25T08:54:00","modified_gmt":"2011-07-25T15:54:00","slug":"back-to-real-life-at-the-bend-seed-extractory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/?p=5298","title":{"rendered":"Back to Real Life at the Bend Seed Extractory!"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Me on my Clipper cleaning some Chrysothamnus viscidiflorus seed<\/p><\/div>\n

\ufeff\ufeff\ufeffBack from CLM intern training at the Chicago Botanic Garden and I’m having to re-adjust to my regular life.\u00a0\u00a0The gauntlet of botany, monitoring,\u00a0protocol and safety information we got was intense for sure.\u00a0 Most of it was\u00a0great for refreshing all that information that I’ve lost in\u00a0the three years since finishing school.\u00a0 Meeting the new crop of interns was\u00a0awesome and tromping around\u00a0the city\u00a0and the burbs was a great way to relax after long days of filling my head\u00a0with information.\u00a0 The setting for the training wasn’t too shabby either.<\/p>\n

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One of the Japanese gardens at the CBG<\/p><\/div>\n

So, now I’m back in Bend picking up where I left off, cleaning and packaging endless mountains of seed from the 2010 field season.\u00a0 (Nita keeps telling us that we’re actually making great progress and 2010 will be done before we know it.)<\/p>\n

I can’t believe it – This week\u00a0marks\u00a0my one year anniversary at the Bend Seed Extractory!<\/p>\n

So what have I learned and how have I grown?\u00a0 I could say that I’ve learned about hundreds of native plant species that are commonly used in ecological restoration all over the western US, which is true…\u00a0 I could say that I am better equipped to understand the need for native seed availability and what it takes to provide viable native\u00a0plant material\u00a0to\u00a0a quickly growing\u00a0market,\u00a0which is also true…\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 But…<\/p>\n

Without a doubt the biggest way that I have grown this last\u00a0year is through observing and interacting with the people that I’ve worked with.\u00a0\u00a0In this last year I’ve seen one\u00a0manager\u00a0retire, a supervisor move into that managers role,\u00a0learned to co-exist with\u00a0the most difficult co-worker I’ve ever come across, and had to train a hand full of new\u00a0employees\u00a0with a huge range of ages, experience levels and\u00a0personalities.\u00a0 I’ve spent\u00a0lots of time observing people interact.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Tense social and professional situations happen frequently here as\u00a0I’m sure they do in most\u00a0professional settings. \u00a0I’ve been asking\u00a0myself how I\u00a0might handle them if it was my responsibility and what the possible outcomes could be.\u00a0\u00a0This year\u00a0I’ve gained a confidence in myself that I know is going to push me\u00a0to\u00a0places I might never have considered\u00a0before coming to work at the Bend Seed Extractory.\u00a0 \u00a0Thanks CLM!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\ufeff\ufeff\ufeffBack from CLM intern training at the Chicago Botanic Garden and I’m having to re-adjust to my regular life.\u00a0\u00a0The gauntlet of botany, monitoring,\u00a0protocol and safety information we got was intense for sure.\u00a0 Most of it was\u00a0great for refreshing all that … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1132,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5298"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1132"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5298"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5298\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5856,"href":"https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5298\/revisions\/5856"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}