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Our project was about making a greenhouse. While making our greenhouse, we thought of using only recycled plastic in case of waste. We then started thinking about how it could fit in small places: Apartments, or houses that don’t have a place for a garden. If people could always grow their own plants, that would means that less people would buy plants from a supermarket, and therefore less CO2 would be released by the trucks transporting the food.
Our inspiration was that Kira has a garden at home called an Aerogarden. It has its own light and supplies its own water. It’s small and can fit on a table. When the plants were sprouts, she used little plastic domes that kept heat in and helped them grow. We knew that we couldn’t have a huge light and a pump for the plants. We liked the idea of making a greenhouse so people that live in small places -or they don’t have any space to grow plants- can still eat and/or grow their own food. We made a nursery Greenhouse to raise plants in small places.
One of our challenges was that one of our teammates was absent for most of our project. In the process of making our project we learned that it is not hard to make a greenhouse, yet you need to make sure it is covered so the heat has no way to escape.
If we had more time to make the greenhouse: We would use wood, make it a little bigger, and make sure that there were no cracks so that the greenhouse could be effective.
The advice I would give to someone else doing this project is make to make sure that there are no cracks. Because of cracks in our greenhouse, the sprouts hardly grew because they weren’t capturing the heat.
One of the good things about this project is that it hardly costs anything. All the supplies that we used, such as popsicle sticks, plastic bags, a cake container, a clear plastic egg carton, sprouts, and hot glue, were found at school or our homes.
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