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Oregon in Agriculture in the Classroom Foundation

Agricultural Literacy Curriculum Matrix

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Chris Berdik

Programming Sun and Rain

On the cramped urban campus of Boston Latin School, students grow an acre’s worth of vegetables in an old shipping container that’s been transformed into a computer-controlled hydroponic farm. Using a wall-mounted keyboard or a mobile app, the student farmers can monitor their crops, tweak the climate, make it rain and schedule sunrise. Use this article to illustrate an example of hydroponics, the use of technology in agriculture, and/or urban farming.

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Chris Berdik
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The Hechinger Report
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