We invite authors to submit courses on all related topics, including general hydroponics, aeroponics, and aquaponics. Our general approach is — to borrow a phrase — let 100 ideas bloom.
Training
We want to see you off to a flying start.- Send instructors to our courses in Puget Sound.
- Support them with our tools and online help.
- Supplement our curricula with local experts.
- Train local technicians in soil-free gardening.
- Develop small business or non-profit gardens locally.
Production
Operate a working indoor farm (example) in a classroom, supplying locally grown, fresh, nutritious vegetables.
Early in the program students earn state-approved certificates in hygiene and food handling, which can lead to full or part-time employment. (Varies by jurisdiction.)
Your working indoor farm doubles as your training laboratory.
Outreach
Build awareness and acceptance of healthy diets and local production. Help create and develop new economic engines in disadvantaged communities.
Optionally partner with community organizations and retailers to improve nutrition in communities that are not well served by corporate grocery chains, the so-called urban food desert, where low incomes and inefficient transportation combine to lower the availability of nutritious fresh produce.
- Plan for distribution channels to local groups.
- Project sales and personalize marketing.
- Track crops, schedule harvest.
- Organize packaging and delivery.
- Create a directory of sponsors, supporters and donors.
Note to Teachers: Eduponics is a perfect project for your DECA program, blending planning, development, production, marketing, sales, and management to achieve a real world result.
Your local experience will reveal and define other opportunities. We can help you automate these tasks.