A pilot project from the students from Bernice MacNaughton High School, that involved hydroponics and aquaponics, is benefitting the community.
Teacher Brian Corbett says this is set up in his classroom, “in the windows of my classroom, I have a whole series of tubes and piping, where I can have several hundred plants growing all at once. There are also tanks of fish.”
With the help of around 15 students, they were able to grow food, “Tomatoes, onions, spices and about 70 heads of lettuce. All of these eventually either got harvested right from the hydroponics or transplanted into our school community garden.”
They were able to use the produce for breakfast and lunch programs at the school, but Corbett says for the third year of the program, they would like to be able to donate produce to Food Depot Alimentaire.
“Even in a small way, this helps students to see how they can affect and help others, and I think that is huge with the direction our school is going to be more community driven and to showing that compassion for others,” Corbett says.
These students and their project were chosen as one of four final regional winners in the Samsung Canada Solve for Tomorrow Challenge and will be awarded $20, 000 worth of Samsung electronics for the school.
For a video of the work they did, click HERE
