Re: Things that make you smile
This is what my good friend did back home in Illinois, and posted on her Facebook. I'm really hoping this takes hold! I'm omitting names but you get it. Love her! This is amazing! Please pass it along if you are on a PTA or want better living for your children at school. They spend more time there with strangers than at home so promote heathy standards when you can't be there to do it yourself!
So I sent this proposal to _____ principal at school. Just met with him to discuss it. I may have just started a healthy food revolution! He got excited from just my talking about it and why (husbands name) and I stopped eating fast food and drinking soda as well as doing a 180 with our eating habits given his diabetes and my hypothyroidism.
Mr. ______
My daughter ______is a part of your hydroponics /Aquaponics after school program. This has been a passion of mine for a year after I have spent researching to start my own Aquaponics garden at home for year round. I find this simply amazing! It gave me the idea to expand the class to something greater that would benefit the entire school district.
Every grade from K to 12 should be given this opportunity and let me tell you why.
1.) It promotes healthy living though better daily nutrition.
2.) It teaches how to produce and sustainable food source both at home and in the school.
3.) New version of Horticulture
4.) Healthy future of farming, soil protection from over farming
5.) Independent living for your own health benefits
6.) Local food marketing
7.) No Pesticides necessary! Furthermore, no pests!
8.) Year round yield in climate controlled environment
9.) Fish farming
10.) Environmental Awareness
11.) Ecosystems: how one benefits the other in a self contained environment
12.) Fish and plant life cycles
13.) Fresh fruits, vegetables, herbs and fish (if you choose a farmable fish) year round for the cafeteria essentially cutting food cost spending for the district.
14.) Healthier meals for the children! Fresh from your own supply that they helped accomplish!
15.) New way to supply tomatoes... hanging trellis, bigger yield healthier plant
16.) Difference between Hydroponics and Aquaponics: the human intervention vs. complete ecosystem with minimal human management.
There are so many more that I can list but those are the main reasons this program should be expanded. It doesn't have to cost the school district much at all. These days there are great crowd funding sources like Indigogo, GoFundMe and Kickstarter that the school can utilize as well as local donation drives by the students and school. This truly is the future of farming.
I would also like to suggest looking into sources like Urban Farm Guys online who teach Diy setups and come to towns and cities to teach communities about sustainable farming.
Also a field trip to The Plant Chicago would be amazing for the students, teachers and parents. It is a self sustaining building that produces much of Chicago's local produce and creator of local jobs. The entire building is an off-grid facility for Hydroponics and Auquponics, it receives all of its energy and electricity from an Anaerobic Digester generator that takes plant material and waste turning it into energy to run the facility. It would teach the students and families about alternate energy as well!
A good source for the parents to promote this at home is a mom from the UK that wrote a nice little book called 7 Myths of Aquaponics by Michelle Booth. It's the book that got me started on my small in home version that I will be building this year. Of course there are tons of reliable books and videos out there which can be utilized, as I am not a professional educator that would be up to the teaching staff.
There are so many benefits this program could bring if gone about the clever way through crowd funding and donations. An outbuilding (larger class trailer) on site would be a good start for a larger yield and variety as well as some small green houses for warmer months. I notices plenty of space for this by the east side parking lot by Jones Rd that would be perfect and out of the way.
I hope you can see my excitement and why this would be a wonderful thing for our children as well as District 54 over time. Children are the future as we all know, so we should do what we can to educate them for the uncertain future where climate, over farming, dwindling food sources, pesticide use and other such things are jeopardizing that future for them. Not to sound like an alarmist of course. Please consider this proposal.
This is what my good friend did back home in Illinois, and posted on her Facebook. I'm really hoping this takes hold! I'm omitting names but you get it. Love her! This is amazing! Please pass it along if you are on a PTA or want better living for your children at school. They spend more time there with strangers than at home so promote heathy standards when you can't be there to do it yourself!
So I sent this proposal to _____ principal at school. Just met with him to discuss it. I may have just started a healthy food revolution! He got excited from just my talking about it and why (husbands name) and I stopped eating fast food and drinking soda as well as doing a 180 with our eating habits given his diabetes and my hypothyroidism.
Mr. ______
My daughter ______is a part of your hydroponics /Aquaponics after school program. This has been a passion of mine for a year after I have spent researching to start my own Aquaponics garden at home for year round. I find this simply amazing! It gave me the idea to expand the class to something greater that would benefit the entire school district.
Every grade from K to 12 should be given this opportunity and let me tell you why.
1.) It promotes healthy living though better daily nutrition.
2.) It teaches how to produce and sustainable food source both at home and in the school.
3.) New version of Horticulture
4.) Healthy future of farming, soil protection from over farming
5.) Independent living for your own health benefits
6.) Local food marketing
7.) No Pesticides necessary! Furthermore, no pests!
8.) Year round yield in climate controlled environment
9.) Fish farming
10.) Environmental Awareness
11.) Ecosystems: how one benefits the other in a self contained environment
12.) Fish and plant life cycles
13.) Fresh fruits, vegetables, herbs and fish (if you choose a farmable fish) year round for the cafeteria essentially cutting food cost spending for the district.
14.) Healthier meals for the children! Fresh from your own supply that they helped accomplish!
15.) New way to supply tomatoes... hanging trellis, bigger yield healthier plant
16.) Difference between Hydroponics and Aquaponics: the human intervention vs. complete ecosystem with minimal human management.
There are so many more that I can list but those are the main reasons this program should be expanded. It doesn't have to cost the school district much at all. These days there are great crowd funding sources like Indigogo, GoFundMe and Kickstarter that the school can utilize as well as local donation drives by the students and school. This truly is the future of farming.
I would also like to suggest looking into sources like Urban Farm Guys online who teach Diy setups and come to towns and cities to teach communities about sustainable farming.
Also a field trip to The Plant Chicago would be amazing for the students, teachers and parents. It is a self sustaining building that produces much of Chicago's local produce and creator of local jobs. The entire building is an off-grid facility for Hydroponics and Auquponics, it receives all of its energy and electricity from an Anaerobic Digester generator that takes plant material and waste turning it into energy to run the facility. It would teach the students and families about alternate energy as well!
A good source for the parents to promote this at home is a mom from the UK that wrote a nice little book called 7 Myths of Aquaponics by Michelle Booth. It's the book that got me started on my small in home version that I will be building this year. Of course there are tons of reliable books and videos out there which can be utilized, as I am not a professional educator that would be up to the teaching staff.
There are so many benefits this program could bring if gone about the clever way through crowd funding and donations. An outbuilding (larger class trailer) on site would be a good start for a larger yield and variety as well as some small green houses for warmer months. I notices plenty of space for this by the east side parking lot by Jones Rd that would be perfect and out of the way.
I hope you can see my excitement and why this would be a wonderful thing for our children as well as District 54 over time. Children are the future as we all know, so we should do what we can to educate them for the uncertain future where climate, over farming, dwindling food sources, pesticide use and other such things are jeopardizing that future for them. Not to sound like an alarmist of course. Please consider this proposal.
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