What Are We Doing?

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The Design Team is one of the teams in EPICS Urban Farming Group. The Design Team deals with the production of food through hydroponics systems This sub-team is currently focused on the creation of a flood and drain system for Jovial Family Farms in Indianapolis, Indiana. This system will have two shelves that each hold three grow trays. Each grow tray has the space for 60 seedlings, so as a whole the system is capable of producing up to 360 seedlings. Part of the design that this team focused on was making sure that as much of the system as possible was accessible for younger children and those in wheelchairs, as Jovial Family Farms works a lot with local schools as well as the elderly population in the area.

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Plans and Future Goals

 

This semester, this team plans to finish the flood and drain system in the beginning of the semester and have it delivered to Jovial Family Farms sometime in February. After delivering the flood and drain system and taking a site visit, the design team will begin to design and construct a Bato Bucket system, which would serve as a place for the seedlings to be moved to and mature once they outgrow the flood and drain system. The system works by pumping water with added nutrients from one reservoir through a group of buckets to allow the roots of the plants to absorb the nutrients from the water, before the water is moved from the buckets back to the reservoir.