It looks like a vending machine but dispenses microgreens instead of Mars bars.
Edible gardens are popping up in schools all over the country but a high school in Broadmeadows has gone one step further and installed a no-waste indoor farm in its canteen. It looks like a vending machine but instead of being stocked with Coke and crisps it contains microgreens, mushrooms and tropical fish.
Geert Hendrix, the founder of Farmwall, the business that installed this soilless set-up, says the farm taps into aspects of science, technology, engineering and mathematics as well as how to grow nutritious food that is good to eat. “The idea is to get students interested in food from a new angle,” Hendrix says. “How we produce food in cities is changing and farmers in the future will need to know about technology, data, nature and biology. Climate anxiety is a real thing with young people at the moment and this helps to show them about the exciting times coming up, and how they can be part of the solution.
Hendrix says while Farmwall is sponsoring this farm and will visit each week to ensure everything is running smoothly, there is the potential for a range of other businesses to sponsor farms at other schools and thereby encourage more “sustainable and regenerative thinking among students who will enter the workforce looking for purposeful careers”.He also sees it as a way for businesses to improve students’ physical and mental health, at a time when the world faces “more and more disruption”.
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