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OCT 17th: The first collaborative school project between Greengro and The Waters Wheel will break ground October 17, 2013, in South Central Los Angeles. A seedling nursery and recirculating water farm will be implemented for the new City of Youth Charter School, located in a Los Angeles "food desert" on South Central Avenue. A new solar parking lot will provide off-grid power for all farming operations. Greengro Technologies is providing funds for the startup and will help equip the facilities with Greengro products.

City of Youth, under the leadership of program director David Durand, has plans to replicate the project at multiple locations, bringing fresh foods and a much needed agriculture economy to the urban community. School curricula will include aquaponics, a food production system that combines conventional aquaculture (fish farming in a tank) with hydroponics (cultivating plants in water) in a symbiotic environment.

"For projects like the City of Youth academy, our operating principle is, 'If you feed people a fish, they will eat for a day," said Haas. "If you teach them how to grow healthy produce with tanks full of edible fish, a whole economy will generate from their hands, empowered.'"

The Waters Wheel is dedicated to transforming the next generation of children with Earth-centric curricula that uses recirculating water farming techniques to teach the "3-Rs" while, at the same time, improving local access to pure, organic nutrition.