Agribusiness – Thomas Reddall High School

Our project is designed to reduce the amount of land required for agricultural farming and to make food locally grown. We have designed a vertical garden which is attached on the side of a building through a system of tubes made from recycled materials. One of the issues centred on the design part of the process as we had to consider how the irrigation was going to work, especially when we are likely to have more droughts. This was why we incorporated the rainwater tank and access to internal plumbing. We also considered growing crops which do not require large amounts of water.

We also had to think about the positioning of the plants in term of sunlight access. We discussed the north wall as being suitable for winter plants to avoid large amounts of sunlight in the summer. We also found out that there are more things to consider when trying to solve problems in the real world including what the cost of construction would be, what the costs would be for people living in the houses that the vertical gardens were being grown on and how to best market this idea for success. Agriculture requires lots of land and our idea is designed to decrease the deforestation that comes with farming. Deforestation leads to less trees to soak up the carbon dioxide in our atmosphere.

Brayden and Presley