Kijiji Grows MLK Educational Park Opening Day Project
The following is a proposal for an aquaponics hands-on project to be built by volunteers during the MLK work day on 18th January 2010.
The garden layout is shown below:
This will consists of three main parts:
- a 150 gallon fish tank
- 8' x 4' media based grow table
- and a 20 feet floating bed garden section
This design is chosen for this day as:
- it will allow for crowd management of a potentially large group of volunteers
- will allow many volunteers to be involved with actual hands on activities
- will allow each volunteer to have real life experience with different aquaponic technologies
- is sustainable, green, cheap while using recycled and local materials
- is productive and has potential for increased food security
Volunteer Activities
The following activities will require volunteers on MLK day.
prepare location
- level aquaponics garden
- measure out perimeter
- stabilize foundations
grow bed installation
- locate fish tank and growbed
- wash gravel
- fill grow bed with gravel
- fill fish tank with water
- connect irrigation
floating bed installation
- level location
- layout bricks
- lay pond liner
- dig hole for sump
- pond liner drainage
- fill floating bed with water
planting
- mark styrofoam hole position
- make holes
- wash plants
- insert plants
- float boards
- run power
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