Students growing crops in the classroom at Farber Educational Center

FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- Students are adding the indispensable nutrients to h2o and investigating it to beryllium definite it's right.

That h2o is what feeds the nutrient increasing successful their classroom.

"We works them, we besides bash alteration the water, similar refill them and things," Hailey Martinez said.

She's a inferior astatine Farber Educational Center.

She and her classmates person been moving connected six flex farms crossed campus.

"We're planting lettuce and tomatoes, cherry tomatoes," Hailey said.

The flex farms springiness students the accidental to turn nutrient utilizing hydroponics.

That means everything grows without ungraded and alternatively gets its nutrients from water.

Science teacher Jadrian Ejercito says hydroponics is simply a large jumping disconnected constituent for students' successful processing an knowing of science.

"It truly sets up astir of the instauration for the concepts successful biology," Ejercito said.

He says it besides gives them a realistic thought of what goes into increasing food.

"So that's, I think, 1 of the large things astir hydroponics; for gardening oregon agriculture successful general, not everything goes the mode arsenic planned," Ejercito said.

Three of the flex farms connected Farber's field are determination acknowledgment to the "California Farm to School Incubator Grant" that was received by Fresno Unified School District.

Director of Nutrition Services, Amanda Harvey, says a full of 10 flex farms were purchased done the assistance and dispersed passim the district.

"So the volition for the assistance is to present much clime astute agriculture to our students," Harvey said.

The eventual extremity is to get what's grown successful the flex farms onto the student's plates successful the cafeteria.

Until then, she hopes this inspires students to commencement increasing their ain nutrient astatine home, astatine arsenic well.

"When you're connected to your food, you conscionable - it's what nourishes our assemblage - and truthful it conscionable takes it to a full different level erstwhile you turn it yourself," Harvey said.

The flex farms were made imaginable from the 3rd circular of backing done this grant.

The territory hopes to support the programme going and growing successful the future.

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