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Ecosystem Map of Mezzacello Urban Farm
Our Mission: Grow, Maintain, Sustain, Explain
Summer Camps At Mezzacello Urban Farm
Workshops at Mezzacello Urban Farm
Our Mission: Grow, Maintain, Sustain, Explain
BioTechnology at Mezzacello Urban Farm
Our Mission: Grow, Maintain, Sustain, Explain
Renewable Energy at Mezzacello Urban Farm
Our Mission: Grow, Maintain, Sustain, Explain
Sensors at Mezzacello Urban Farm
The Livestock at Mezzacello Urban Farm
Family Workshops at Mezzacello Urban Farm
Fun and Games
Data Science at Mezzacello Urban Farm
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Secret Gardens at Mezzacello Urban Farm
Water Purification Strategies
Bioengineering at Mezzacello Urban Farm
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The Foodist at Mezzacello Urban Farm
Online Learning at Mezzacello.org
Labs at Mezzacello Urban Farm
Applied STEM at Mezzacello Urban Farm
BioMechanics at Mezzacello Urban Farm
Ecosystems at Mezzacello Urban Farm
UN 17 Sustainable Development Goals
Mezzacello Urban Farm is in Downtown Columbus
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Chickens, Ducks, Rabbits, Quail, Fish, Crickets, Worms
The Koi Pond at Mezzacello Urban Farm
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The Livestock Run at Mezzacello Urban Farm
Mobile Animal Clinics at Mezzacello Urban Farm
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Potager Gardens at Mezzacello Urban Farm
Robotic Compost at Mezzacello Urban Farm
Compost at Mezzacello Urban Farm
The Equation for Sustainability
Summer Camps at Mezzacello Urban Farm
Ecology Tours at Mezzacello Urban Farm
Service Learning at Mezzacello Urban Farm
Free Power from Traffic at Mezzacello Urban Farm
The Formal Gardens at Mezzacello Urban Farm
The Formal Gardens at Mezzacello Urban Farm
Ecology Tours at Mezzacello Urban Farm
The Hornbeam Allee at Mezzacello Urban Farm
The Formal Gardens at Mezzacello Urban Farm
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The West Face of the Hornbeam Allee
![The Farm at Night](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/661208c84d455812b1da4496/8401e4a3-498c-4095-ade9-f880564c7053/2321515997.jpg)
The Farm at Night
![The Pond in Summer](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/661208c84d455812b1da4496/bbbebe2e-28df-4eb7-86d5-4d78bf6e6224/1080553274.jpg)
The Pond in Summer
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Robotic Fish to Monitor Pond Health
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Discovering baby chicks!
Service Learning Day at Mezzacello Urban Farm
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The Biodome in Winter
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Alice Cooper the Rabbit
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Italianate House at Mezzacello Urban Farm
Engineered Soil and Mulch at Mezzacello Urban Farm
Summer Camp Data Station at Mezzacello Urban Farm
Mezzacello Portrait During COVID Lockdown
Literary Liquors at Mezzacello
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The Foodist has Amazing Recipes!
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Three Generations of Wind Power
![Hydroponics Systems at Mezzacello Urban Farm](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/661208c84d455812b1da4496/a7076af1-7590-44c8-974f-261ac8c53087/3089606160.jpg)
Hydroponics Systems at Mezzacello Urban Farm
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Sensor Action at Mezzacello Urban Farm
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Summer Flowers
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Natural Tick Destroyers
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Simple Garden Beds
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The Pollinator Fountain at Mezzacello Urban Farm
Watching a Baby Duck Swim
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Mezzacello From The House
Sustainability, Science, EcoSystems, Beauty, and Fun
Mezzacello Urban Farm is a 501(C)3 non-profit [Guidestar Report] passionately committed to creating a food and health oasis in the heart of a major urban city.
Sustainability
Our goal and commitment to sustainability is passionate and complete. Voted Most sustainable urban garden in 2022 by Franklin Park Conservatory’s Growing To Green program. In addition, We are committed to modeling sustainable systems throughout our gardens.
Why Sustainability?
We are at an inflection point in our world today. Rather than highlight all the things that are going wrong, I choose to take a moment and underscore and model the things we can all do NOW at a local scale.
I started a blog chain detailing all of my work in this area. You can read them all here.
Science and Summer Camps
While we build Mezzacello as a sustainable model of thoughtful infrastructure and enclosed and sustainable ecosystems, we run and innovate summer camps. Camps like Bio Technology, Bio Engineering, Bio Renewables, and Bio Chemistry. These camps are designed to expose young minds to the magic and fun of all the sciences in gardening and agriculture. Learn More Here.
On a scale of 1-5 Mezzacello Camps are an 11!
PARENT OF A SUMMER CAMPER
Ecosystems
We started this mission with just two ecosystems: Formal Gardens and a small farm. As we developed in sophistication, we began to see that each ecosystem needed to be expanded and integrated. Today in 2023, there are NINE integrated and enclosed ecosystems at Mezzacello.
These ecosystems include:
The formal garden beds and hugelkultur systems, the pollinator gardens, the parterre and herbal systems, an integrated and sustainable pond, an advanced livestock integration system, potager gardens, an advanced and integrated composting system, a power and water generation systems, and lastly, the house we live in on this farm
Our Mission:
Grow, Maintain, Sustain, Explain, and Entertain with applied STEM
Our Vision:
Create frictionless opportunities for people to explore relationships between ecologies, farming, robotics, automation, and applied STEM in a densely populated urban environment.
Join us in our mission of building the future, and reflecting the past; To grow, maintain, sustain and explain the path forward for health and food security.
Life on Mars? Biosystems? Collared rooster? Lawns with no weeds? Not your typical day visiting a garden but Jim Bruner is never typical.
JULIALYNNE WALKER
Over the last six years we have converted 3 abandoned plots of land in downtown Columbus into six distinct and inter-related sustainable ecosystems. Today we continue to build, experiment, and innovate in urban farming and ag science. See an example of our philosophy here. We innovated right through COVID 2020 lockdown and proved this concept works.