My LiA takes place in Lakewood, Colorado, a small suburban neighborhood near Denver. I'm volunteering at a local 2-acre farm aiming to provide organic and sustainable food to the community. Although this is connected to understanding the impacts of climate change, which is the main theme of my first summer, this hands-on experience of what people on the ground truly experience from climate change is drastically different from working with phytoplankton in labs. I'm interested in farming because I've never done it and I want to have tangible impacts on nature as well as human beings. I'm living in a tiny house on the farm, without running water (I need to fetch water in 23L containers and store them until I run out), kitchen (there is a sink but no stove, only a weak electric burner), indoor shower (I shower with a bucket of cold water each day), nor normal toilet (there is onlya compost toilet). To be honest, I was not really expecting it. I don't hate it, though. It's quite a humbling experience!