the class itself is pretty popular with students and I think a lot of it it
has--it's a different type of class
it's not your typical come and take notes and the diving board
bio don't ask him about a few years ago another teacher myself
we talked about wanting to have a three holes to kind of do some extended
activities and now it's way more into a bottle of course we're in a
horticultural type of course we're actually teaching students how to do the
garden cleaning out some of the extra stuff of what plants do you really need
it
those two numbers anything like that strawberries peanuts
there's a lot of them I just I just love anal types of vegetables
let's take is used for fertilizing the Dome of the unit with our irrigation
system
Bernie products systems here are two different systems that two different
groups of students design we have underneath to grow light so that we can
hopefully produce plan all year long always always the goal is to have
strawberry christmas time we have our strawberry beds back here these have
been established in here since the adult with started back in 2010
then we added in some herbs along the way
what we have our lemon tree and
and our small line three we have a variety of different varieties of apples
in here
one of the things we try to do too is stay away from a lot of the commercial
type growing system as well so showing them that with the materials that they
have around themselves they can really do the aquaponics and hydroponics with a
little ingenuity and be able to do that on their own skill at home
a frames for the hydroponics are I thought that was cool because and always
spot on the planet in the ground but you can play them in place
- and it works the paint I think it's changed a lot of kids thinking of
hey I can do this this isn't that hard it's not that
no big of a deal
in the way that is grown here versus at stores like I always thought about the
pesticides up for you
not healthy we're now that i know you can get organic like from the biodome
whether they'll press the site ranking
yeah its influence a lot of a diet to be a lot more now we were having dinner
we have at least one user steam
there's a lot more vegetables from here and actually place the hair
I think if they're from the biodome this year we just really started to integrate
ok what he has
so we can use in the cafe next year we are looking at a growing schedule 1
month will be garden vegetables which is what we're teaching this month one month
of the herbs with monthly varies one month its root vegetables just kind of
depending on what he and growth rewarding to know that you're doing
the kids are getting something that's not all pesticides like
you know they're teenagers are going to eat their pizza drinking pop and stuff
but some sort of small scale there there is that change in the thinking that way
I can do this I can produce this myself without them relying the store spend the
money in the store to do it and really end up feeding themselves in the fact
their families
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