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- Winter Thriving:\u00a0 Lettuce, Kai-Lan, parsnips, brussel sprouts, kale<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
The three main tasks left to complete are the collection of 2L bottles, design and construction of miniature gardens, and the final poster presentation.\u00a0 The progress of each are described below:<\/p>\n
Bottle Collection<\/strong><\/p>\n
We have contacted various local businesses and residences about our bottle collection but have been denied by many.\u00a0 However, we managed to book a stand in the Kaiser atrium on March 13 from 11 AM to 2 PM to help spread the word of the food wall and collect pop bottles from students and staff.\u00a0 We will have multiple shifts for manning the booth to accommodate our busy schedules.\u00a0 In addition, we have contacted Gage residence to see if we can hold a bottle collection booth for one night.\u00a0 We have yet to receive confirmation of this event, but the target date is March 14 from 3 PM to 6 PM.\u00a0 For these two events, we plan on baking cookies and exchanging them for 2L pop bottles.\u00a0 Hopefully this will give people an incentive to bring in their empty bottles.<\/p>\n
We have put together a couple of posters to put around campus, mainly in the engineering buildings.\u00a0 One of our posters are shown below.\u00a0 In addition to these, we are going to advertise our project in our classes to raise awareness of this project to encourage people to collect and donate their bottles.\u00a0 We have set up two boxes in the Civil Design Studio and are planning to implement more boxes around the buildings for convenience.<\/p>\n
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<\/a>Bottle Collection Poster<\/p><\/div>\n
As of now, we have collected 51 bottles.\u00a0 The goal is to reach 2500 bottles by March 18, but as time is very limited, this goal is unrealistic at this point.\u00a0 We have notified Sabine and Warren about this situation and have been told to just collect whatever we can.\u00a0 One of our alternative solutions include collecting all types of bottles and trading them in for 2L bottles or raising money to help purchase the remaining bottles.<\/p>\n
Mini-Garden<\/strong><\/p>\n
After researching various ways to plant fruits and vegetables, we came up with a few unique solutions that use common household items.\u00a0 The idea behind these structures are to “Think Big, Grow Small.”\u00a0 A few conceptual designs are provided below.\u00a0 These designs are meant to be low cost and easy to construct.\u00a0 We are planning to use various items like incandescent light bulbs, tennis balls and beer cans to create fun little gardens that can be placed in various places around the house.<\/p>\n
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<\/a>Mini-Garden Concepts<\/p><\/div>\n
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<\/a>Mini-Garden Concepts Cont’d.<\/p><\/div>\n
We are planning to construct multiple mini-gardens.\u00a0 The selected designs and the team member responsible for each are as follows:<\/p>\n
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- Beer bottle pyramid- Christopher<\/li>\n
- Suction cup tennis ball\u00a0 – Jasmine<\/li>\n
- Upside down coffee tin – Megan<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
Peyman, Christina and Samuel will assist in collecting materials and building the mini-gardens.\u00a0 We will continue to develop more concepts as we stumble upon more interesting ways to grow plants.\u00a0 The mini-gardens are going to be due on March 18 so that we have everything sorted out for the final presentation.\u00a0 Once completed, the miniature gardens will be given to Sabine to showcase to the community.<\/p>\n
Poster Presentation<\/strong><\/p>\n
The final poster project will be started on the week of March 18, when all the bottles are supposedly due.\u00a0 This way, we will have more time to focus on making the poster and preparing for our presentation.\u00a0 We will need to purchase a poster board and paste incorporate visuals that help describe our project.\u00a0 Everyone will help out with the final poster as we are presenting on March 25.<\/p>\n
We are so excited!\u00a0 We cannot wait to see how this all turns out!<\/p>\n
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In the past three weeks, our team has\u00a0 taken action for the Vertical Food Wall Project.\u00a0 From Reading Break up until now, we have been fairly busy with the plant list for the food wall, the organization of bottle collecting … Continue reading