US (VA): Hydroponics grower helps kids learn about modern ag
NSA students are learning more about conservation with a hydroponic garden at their main campus on Pruden Boulevard. The garden was donated by Thomas Vandiver, the president of Neighborhood Harvest in Suffolk.
It represents the culmination of conservation studies for NSA fifth graders this semester. Teachers were interested in building a greenhouse for lessons but were concerned about cost and maintenance.
“We realized the materials and the maintenance were going to be out of our league,” said NSA Lower School science resource teacher Cindy Mears.
Vandiver designed and built a hydroponic garden worth several thousand dollars at no cost to the school. He introduced the garden to the school in April and has since been educating both the students and the teachers on maintaining it.
“We’re learning with the students,” Mears said. “It’s a learning process for all of us.”
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