Indoor Farmers
Our work was recently featured on WCVB’s Chronicle. http://www.wcvb.com/chronicle/indoor-farmers/41375826
Urbanhydro farmers featured by NSF
With support from the National Science Foundation (NSF), Boston College educator Mike Barnett and his team developed the Urban Hydrofarmers Project to engage students in math and science through hydroponic farming and green energy technology. And, because the teens sell what they grow at farmers’ markets, the students get to experience green entrepreneurship. Barnett and his team have also partnered …
USDA/NIFA grant awarded
The I-USE lab in collaboration with Salve Regina University Professor of Biology, Jameson Chace, and Ground Work Lawrence, have received a $221,455 award from the National Institute for Food and Agriculture (NIFA). To support this award American Hydroponics, Bontanicare, General Hydroponics, Sunlight Supply, Boston College, and GYOstuff have donated resources totaling over $350,000. Together this public/private partnership will Create a hydroponics program for …
American Hydroponics Donates Equipment
American Hydroponics (AmHydro) has donated $15,000 worth of hydroponic equipment to Boston College’s Lynch School of Education to help facilitate a United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) education grant. This grant will allow education professor Mike Barnett to add more teachers to his interdisciplinary education program that uses hydroponics to teach science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) subjects using agriculture. …
NSF Awards Advanced Technological Education Grant
The iCREAT project, led by Massachusetts Bay (Mass Bay) Community College, is designed to recruit, retain, and prepare students from populations that are underrepresented in STEM to provide them with the opportunity to opt into a STEM career pathway. We are proposing the development of a longitudinal career pathway that starts in eleventh (junior year) grade and continues through obtaining …