Lesson: Micro Hydroponics Systems
Students will repurpose takeout container to start growing seedlings in a small hydroponic container with a heat map to promote germination and growth,
Lesson: Creating Perfect Fertlizer
Students will explore the molecular nature of fertilizer and its relationship to NHCOPS, the water cycle and the sun.
Lesson: Food From Waste and Ash
Students will learn to make soap from waste products and ash as well as fire starter kits from lint, wax and soap.
Lesson: Animal Babies and Health
Students will learn the basics of vet tech, like treating wounds, medicated feed, and identifying illness in small animals.
Lesson: NHCOPS and the Ladder of Life
Students will become familiar with both the periodic table of the elements, periodicity, and the DNA composition of life.
Lesson: Lasagna Garden Basics
Students will explore compost and growing systems from a biological and chemical basis to understand life systems through a model.
Lesson: Animal Health And Safety
A fun and safe way to introduce students to the realities of handling live animals and their pathogens, like a real vet.
Lesson: Animal Evolution Body Puzzle
Lesson identifying different parts of three distinct species of animal and finding commonalities and needs among them.
Lesson: Ecosystem Anomalies
This is a fun search and ID lesson where students work in teams with a hula hoop to take surveys on ecosystems to find a mystery.
Lesson: Nested Levels of Reality
Reality is a web of details, structures, and dependent systems. organism to the quantum realm, this lesson explores it all.
Lesson: Teams and Why They Matter
This is a quick bootcamp on social emotional learning, empathy, and teamwork. It gamifies good behavior and highlights bad behavior and why it exists.
Lesson: Basic Sanitation 101
Sanitation is a critical skillset on an urban farm. This lesson introduces students to the basics of sanitation and pathology.
Lesson: Creating an Ecosystem
Students will create a map or maquette of the ecosystems of Mezzacello and determine using science and data if it is an ecosystem.
Lesson: Magnetism 101
Students will learn the mystery of magnetism. From the quantum to the electro-mechanical students will explore all types of magnets.
Spring 2021 and the Brunerform
An update on the gardens this spring and a candid little confessional and observation on Spring, Beauty, Life, and Fashion.
Hot Water means Boiling Hot
We have to have the water heater set to really hot water to insure things we wash get sterilized. Not good for hand washing.
The Vision for the Formal Gardens
Six years ago around this time we started mapping out the "rooms" of the formal gardens. We cut out the sod and recycled as much of the dirt as we could and turned the rest into sod rolls for our neighbors. We had 60 rolls of sod.