Energy and Culture on an Urban Farm
When do you live your best life, be there for others and make space for food and life? Hard to live in this century and farm.
Systems
Lesson: Reverse Engineer a Product
Students will be disassembling, documenting, and rebuilding a simple battery-powered product. Fun and challenging.
Lesson: Ecosystem 101
Students will be introduced to the very specific definition of an ecosystem. Then they will be tasked with finding one. Working in teams.
Lesson: Creating an Ecosystem
Students will create a map or maquette of the ecosystems of Mezzacello and determine using science and data if it is an ecosystem.
Lesson: Engineering the Perfect Container
This lesson sees the egg in better detail from anatomy, to biophysics, to evolution, to tool, food, weapon, and life.
Pop Up Compost Piles
At Mezzacello, the various ecosystems always need tending. When we know that a garden bed will need to sit fallow for a season because we either don’t have time or money to get it done, I will intentionally plant nitrogen-fixing crops like clover or hairy vetch to promote nitrogen and moisture in the soil. The …
The Boy Scouts Were Right; Always Be Prepared
I found a duck on a clutch of eggs and rather than act right then to help, I did the wrong thing. Be a boy scout.
