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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