Seaside Resident's Repponse
Fruit Connection! project have been very busy advertising our survey across Seaside and dedicated members consistently updating our survey and website. We got 74 responses so far on our survey! That's incredible! There were a few negative response about water usage, water price, California climate. All opinions about this project are welcome.
Most of our response individuals own a house, nearly 50% are over the age of 51 to 70, and 78% are white. Looking at the demographic of Seaside with almost 50/50 ethnicity of white and Hispanic, only 8% of our responses are Hispanic. Why is that? Perhaps the areas that we have targeted our advertisement didn't hit the Hispanic community. Was the organization who advertised us specifically have a set of community members? How can we address this?
There are various ways that I think we can address this issue. Having bilingual website, survey, and flyers that will make it more convenient for the Hispanic community of Seaside. We should also target denser neighborhoods, like Hannon and Noche Buena neighborhoods. Even though these neighborhoods might not allow residents to have the space and resources to plant fruit trees, they also have the opportunity to participate in the project.
Over the last few times we have done door to door outreach, it's been rewarding and fun. We get to walk around different neighborhood and check out the surroundings. It did get awkward one time when we survey a neighborhood around 6pm, since it's winter the sun was setting fast, we felt like we were intruding on people's property because either residents are just getting home or having dinner. They see us awkwardly walk up to their yard and leave a flyer.
Most of our response individuals own a house, nearly 50% are over the age of 51 to 70, and 78% are white. Looking at the demographic of Seaside with almost 50/50 ethnicity of white and Hispanic, only 8% of our responses are Hispanic. Why is that? Perhaps the areas that we have targeted our advertisement didn't hit the Hispanic community. Was the organization who advertised us specifically have a set of community members? How can we address this?
There are various ways that I think we can address this issue. Having bilingual website, survey, and flyers that will make it more convenient for the Hispanic community of Seaside. We should also target denser neighborhoods, like Hannon and Noche Buena neighborhoods. Even though these neighborhoods might not allow residents to have the space and resources to plant fruit trees, they also have the opportunity to participate in the project.
Over the last few times we have done door to door outreach, it's been rewarding and fun. We get to walk around different neighborhood and check out the surroundings. It did get awkward one time when we survey a neighborhood around 6pm, since it's winter the sun was setting fast, we felt like we were intruding on people's property because either residents are just getting home or having dinner. They see us awkwardly walk up to their yard and leave a flyer.
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