It's hard to say whether we can narrow and focus on any particular part of the LiA project when mine is working on a farm. Farm work is very holistic, where you don't learn things bit by bit but rather everything all at once - weeding isn't "harder" nor "easier" than flipping the soil bed, nor are harvesting and transplanting seedlings comparable in their difficulties of skills. Here, I'm obliged to know the whole process of a crop's life, and each day I'm spending time on different crop types that can be at varying stages of their lives.

A typical day here may be weeding the peppers for 2 hours, harvesting the 45 largest onions possibly found, snapping branches off 3 species of kale and bunching the branches in 8-12 per bunch, and cutting dried garlic stems to store garlic away. Some crops, like garlic, onions, and shallots, require extensive drying in the greenhouse, because their moisture isn't helpful when it comes to storage. Others, like stemmed greens, may be harvested by snapping the branches off using fingers rather than a knife, because cutting through the plant cells hinders growth, whereas breaking stems using fingers won't cut through plant cells. Details like these are all really interesting as I learn more about plant communities every day, not just the communities of people around me.