(November 30, 2011)     I was so excited to see my chia seed bottles and other grain/wheat seed bags when I came back from break, but sadly many of them did not make it. Bacteria got the best of them. Amanda, however, did end up making a "new batch" of the chia and grain seeds, so I was able to continue with the process.
      I started mixing the chia seed bottle with a bag of hemp (it was cut up into tiny pieces so it kind of looked like really small pieces of tree bark). I finally was able to actually touch something. Everything else I have been working with is really sensitive to bacterial infections so I normally can't touch anything, but this time I really had to dig in in order to mix my "chia meatloaf". This was easy since the chia bottle is a liquid. I put them into plastic rectangular form fitting containers (these had been bleached earlier to sanitize them). They were then closed up and labeled.
     I then started mixing the grain seed bags with the bag of hemp. This was a little more difficult because both these products are dry. Nonetheless, I finished mixing them, put them in the containers, and then labeled them.
     One of the main pieces that I learned was the sanitization of all the bags, bottles, and especially the vent system/hood that I always work under. Sanitizing everything is so important in order to decrease the chances of bacteria growing. I hope all my sanitizing pays off next week when I visit!