natural resources conservation

despite having some other wonderful photos from the day, i thought this the most beneficial to share. as you maybe know, im here with 42 peace core volunteers going through training. within that, we're divided into two groups based on our soon to be jobs for the next two years. those groups being natural resources conservation (mine!) and sustainable agriculture. so here we are the NRC crew, on our first technical field trip - visiting the city of quito's tree nursery where they produce all of the plants for their parks/streets/etc.

it was an amazing day learning about some plant reproduction techniques, getting our hands dirty, and putting in a bit of manual labor!