Hello all! My name is Trystan Rackham and I am a new garden manager for this semester. I am very excited to work in the garden this Spring. There are a few exciting projects on the horizon that I am trying to organize so I am excited to be a part of the garden management team! Here are a few things about me to better know me:
I am a senior working towards my BS for Environmental Science. I have academic and research interests in specifically climate change and ecological impacts of climate change, but the environment in general is what I care about most. I am not originally from the Pacific Northwest like most of the other garden managers. I came to Saint Martin's University from Pennsylvania. When I was younger, I never lived in the same place for long because my father was in the military so we moved around quite a bit to places like Hawaii, Utah, Colorado, and then several places in Pennsylvania itself. So I am more or less an "implant" as people call it.
Me at Elwha River last February
When I was younger I didn't really have a large outdoor life due to my parents also not having a large interest in the outdoors. However, as I grew older and even to the present, I love going on hikes and spending my time outside. I've always had a connection to the earth and that's only increased as time goes on. Around the time I was in middle school, my faith evolved from Roman Catholic (my mother's beliefs) to Norse Pagan or Asatru (belief in the Aesir, or belief in the gods). So my religious beliefs and my interest in nature blend really well and it definitely serves as a motivation for my aspirations and interest in the environment.
I don't have a ton of gardening experience, but I was in 2016's Fall UNI101 Oikos floor class with Catherine, a former garden manager and in that class we did a lot of work in the garden, so that was a great experience and I wanted to use those skills I learned from that class more.
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