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Hydroponics

2023, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada
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Kobe, Oliver, David, and Meaghan are from St. Augustine School in Saskatoon. Their project focused on hydroponic gardening. They wanted to show the benefits of growing your food instead of buying it from stores. With their hydroponics, they have been able to grow tomatoes, lettuce, and strawberries. They used their plants to support garden boxes at their school. They have even produced a few yields of fruit and vegetables that St. Augustine students were able to make into a delicious meal. Kobe, Oliver, David, and Meaghan hope that people will “Go Green” with an eco-garden.

    Sustainable Development Goals:

  • Goal 2- No Hunger
  • Goal 12- Responsible Consumption and Production

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Garden Education for 5th graders

2022, SACRAMENTO, CALIFORNIA, USA
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Jessica Espejo Arellano, Kathy Nguyen, Abigail Murillo Maldonado, and Cher´Nae Perry, students from Grant High School’s GEO Academy, invited 5th and 6th graders from Hagginwood Elementary to the Grant garden to learn about seeds, vegetable and pollinator plants, as well as the benefits of composting. The elementary students planted seeds, learned plant anatomy by cooking “5 plant part chow mein”, investigated critters in the compost and soil, and made plant ID bookmarks. The GEO student leaders planned and led the hands-on activities with the rotating groups. Additional students from GEO, Ghulam Murtaza Niazi, Rodrigo Gatto, Alejandro Gil-Reyes, Milton Molina helped make this day a fun, educational and successful event for all.


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Food For All

2022, Lord Selkirk Regional, Selkirk, MB, Canada
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Jenna is a high school student from Selkirk, MB who wanted to do something to reduce food waste in her community. She got permission from her boss at the grocery store she works at to start donating food that cannot be sold in his store rather than throwing it out. They worked together to create a plan to have the food picked up and transferred to the school’s breakfast club. Her project met environmental sustainability needs, but also social ones, as well.

“Even this small call to action may seem small but, in the end, it will make a great impact among the community. Food waste has accumulated so much over the years especially with the pandemic occurring. I feel my solution for such a huge problem is needed greatly in these harsh times.”Aaron's No Frills sign

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Vertical Garden Project

2021, Sacramento, CA, USA

When Ella Waite and Mia Andrade from George Washington Carver High School started researching vertical gardens, they were impressed by the myriad of environmental and social benefits they could provide.  For their Caring for Our Watersheds project, Ella and Mia decided to not only build a vertical garden, but to also document the process and share through social media. With this added component, they could more widely demonstrate the benefits of the design and hopefully inspire others to try this type of gardening. As detailed in their proposal, vertical gardens allow people to efficiently utilize the space available in urban environments to provide food, improve air quality, reduce heat-island effects, save energy, and increase biodiversity.

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Addressing Food Insecurity

2021, Sacramento, CA, USA

Sabrina Lee, MaiChong Lee, and Faye Lee, students at Grant High School in Sacramento, were concerned about food insecurity in their community, especially during COVID-19, quarantine, and the associated economic pressures. They wanted to help students and families start small vegetable gardens at home to help supplement and ensure access to nutritional foods. To demonstrate the process, the group planted tomatoes, zucchini, and other vegetables in their school garden, created short videos and a website to educate youth about gardening, which they shared with the 10th grade class. They also provided many of these students with seeds to start their own gardens and asked for those students to document and share about the experience.  Jesse Garcia, Marielle Magalong, and Jared Matias were among the students that received and planted seeds, thus benefitting from the food gardening education provided by their peers.

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Grant High School Garden Tour

2020, Sacramento, CA, USA

Students from Grant High School’s GEO Academy organized and led educational field trips for elementary students to explore and study in the school’s garden. Activities included seed and plant anatomy and adaptations, compost and soil food web investigations, and a “Nutrition Scavenger Hunt”’ of plants and their vitamins. Students also transplanted, harvested, and tasted vegetables, while learning about food safety practices. Caring for Our Watersheds funding helped bring 100 elementary students from 2 schools to have this awesome hands-on experience.

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Forest High School Coop Project

2021, Foresthill, CA, USA

In order to help teach sustainable agricultural practices to students in Ag Biology, Farm to Fork classes, and the FFA club at Foresthill High School, students Heidi Lysen and David Reinhart worked together to plan and build a chicken coop and enclosure as part of their school garden. The chickens will provide natural pest control for the garden and provide manure to compost and enrich the soil. Heidi and David are grateful for the friends, family, and Caring for Our Watersheds funding that helped them accomplish this project for their school.

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Composting for a Cause

2021, West Kildonan Collegiate, Winnipeg, MB, Canada

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Have you ever thought about how much food waste is produced by restaurants? Nicholas from West Kildonan Collegiate in Winnipeg, MB came up with an idea to get more restaurants to compost some of their waste to divert it from the landfill and have it turn into something useful! He partnered with a local company called Compost Winnipeg, and they were able to fund restaurants subscriptions with this composting company for a couple of months to get them started in hopes that they would continue recycling afterwards. They also held a successful community recycling event to educate local members of the community on the benefits of compost at home!

“As a community it is our obligation and responsibility to take care of our Watershed so our future descendants, and wildlife alike have a safe, healthy, and nurturing place to enjoy and to depend on for generations. My proposal works to reduce the amount of food waste produced by restaurants in our community, and to divert their food waste away from landfills.”

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WATER-EFFICIENT GARDEN AND COOP AT A.M. WINN SCHOOL

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2019, Sacramento, California, USA

For their Caring for Our Watersheds project, G.W. Carver High School students Jasmine Chicas and Lea Fehringer decided to focus on the issue of water quantity as drought cycles are a reality of California life. Specifically, they wanted to help raise awareness in elementary school students about the importance of water conservation.

Lea and Jasmine created an educational space at A. M. Winn elementary school that demonstrates efficient water use and also provides a fun, interactive area for students, They built a chicken coop with rain barrels set up to collect the runoff from the coop’s roof. They also planted a drought-tolerant native plant garden with a drip irrigation system that will prevent the loss of any water to evaporation or runoff.chicken coop

With their project, they fulfilled teacher visions for the space, and provided many examples of responsible water usage for the students to learn from for years to come. Caring for Our Watersheds funds helped buy lumber, rain barrels, irrigation supplies, and plants for the project.

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E.E.E (ECOLOGICAL EDUCATION SPACE)

student action implementation EEE2018 Carmen de Areco, Buenos Ares, Argentina

EES T N° 1, Carmen de Areco. Students: Nicolás Susseret, Agustina Guerrero (all the classroom was involved with the implementation)

This Project intends to create a classroom-space dedicated to natural sciences and new technologies.  This classroom-space will have laboratory characteristics in which native plants, both aquatic and terrestrial, will be produced, based on a novel production system such as aeroponics and the associated parmaculture.

student action implementation EEEThis project combines other CFW projects; they used arduinos system and the idea of the 2017 winning project “smart light” that manages the light intensity and the day / night duration. They are using renewable energy, solar photovoltaic, solar thermal peltier cells and the whole system is robotic and managed by arduinos. They have humidity, co2, and intensity sensors and different types of luminosity.

They also wanted to make an aquatic system and a system with algae for a biofilter. They will be  breeding native fish to re-populate the streams in the area. All this will be done within a research framework supported by sensors and powered by renewable energies.