In class we are starting a system called Aquaponics, it is where you have a fish and you use the fishes manure as the soil and you grow vegetables in clay balls.
Jack (Tiiu's former student) got a grant to study aquaponics with our class, and came in to talk to us about pollution and how it affects our environment, after he talked to us about Nitrogen and what plants need to survive:
- H2O-Water(Hydrogen 2 oxygen)
- CO2-Carbon dioxide
Next he talked about parasites and asked us what a parasite was and it is a being that takes but never gives. Then he talked about what a symbiotic relationship is and we gave examples of different symbiotic and parasitic relationships are.
For example:
- A bee and a flower
- A human and a loyal pet
- Fingers and a keyboard
We split up into three groups to try three different ways of planting, the three groups were soil, insulation, and plastic bags. We were planting broccoli, tomato's, kale, and spinach.
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| The insulation group adding their plants. |
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| The plastic bag group planting. |
They left and came back this week and we got started on the actual tank and system, we had to fix the tubes that would transfer the fish water to the garden. After that, we dumped the clay balls into the garden. Then we made the tank for the fish and dumped all the water into the tank. They will be coming back next week to do more. We'll keep you posted!
