Blog 9: Curation Progress Report

This week, I honestly could have done a lot more work for my curation. I tend to be focusing on the pictures more, which I think is a very important aspect of the curation. But, what I think I should have taken more time and energy doing was thoroughly and completely going through the link I found of influential horticulturalists and deciding which ones I was going to use in my curation, and then finding additional information on those people as well.

This is probably going to be the biggest obstacle for me because I like the fun part- finding awesome pictures of gardens, But actually looking up the history of people and what they do is a little less interesting compared to the pictures and I know I'm putting that off because of it. Starting it will be the toughest thing for me.

The coolest picture I found this week was a picture of vertical farming.

What is awesome about this photo is that it opened up another aspect to my curation, which is to talk about vertical farming a little bit, and how that has such a big thing to do with interesting and unique gardens. Just by finding a picture, it opened up a completely new door for my curation.

To move forward, I need to look up all of the info on the horticulturalists I decide to use, look up a little bit of info on vertical farming to add with the picture to explain what it is, and finish finding the rest of my images.

Something that I could definitely be doing better would be to getting the "hard" stuff out of the way first. It's easy to find the pictures, but I need to buckle down and do the research part.