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School Learning Center

Here's a Green Project for your School

Install a Grow Foods Aquaponics Ecology Lab!

By getting a few donors together, your school can have its own Grow Foods aquaponic learning center, where your students can learn hands-on real-world lessons that are vital to all our futures: 

  •     Organic vegetable production

  •     Fish farming

  •     Sustainable, local food production

  •     World hunger solutions

  •     Water and energy conservation

  •     Botany

  •     Biology

  •     Ecology

  •     Physics

  •     Math

  •     Responsibility, cleanliness, cooperation, dedication, patience, planning, and caring about others.
     

Built in a simple but sturdy hoop house or greenhouse, this aquaponic system represents the latest technology. Amazing production is possible. For example, a 10 foot by 20 foot unit can produce nearly 4,000 organic vegetables and over 500 pounds of tilapia fish each year!

  •     No herbicides

  •     No pesticides

  •     No hormones

  •     No soil

  •     No fertilizers

  •     Minimum water use

  •     Minimum electrical use

  •     Minimum land use

  •     Can be solar powered


Nearly any vegetable and herb can be grown (except root vegetables), and goldfish or koi can be substituted for the tilapia if fish harvesting is not needed or desired. The food production can be shared, taken home, used by the cafeteria, or donated to the needy.

The fish provide the nutrients to the water, and the plants use the nutrients as they purify the water for the fish. This ecological cycle mimics that which occurs in natural streams, ponds, and lakes.

All ages can participate. Projects include planting seeds, feeding fish, monitoring the environment, staging the plant and fish production for continuous yield, providing light with the proper spectral qualities to extend the day, and experimenting with different plants. A curriculum is available for private, public, and home schools.

We are available for meetings and presentations to faculty, administrators, and sponsors. Sponsors can include PTA, informal parent groups, service clubs, garden clubs, individual benefactors, and businesses. Your farm can be up and running for about $12,000, depending on options. It can pay for itself in fewer than two years.

 For more information, or to schedule a meeting or presentation, contact us.

 

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