Farm Zones
This area is where seedlings are started and cared for before being moved to the grow walls.
the nursery/ the nursery area
This method grows plants without traditional soil.
What is hydroponics?
This system provides the artificial light plants need for photosynthesis.
What are the cultivation lights/LED lights?
This task involves putting seeds into trays so they can begin growing.
What is seeding?
True or False: HydroTech is simply a classroom decoration.
What is False? It is an operating agricultural production system.
This is the main growing area containing the grow walls where mature crops are produced.
What is the cultivation area?
nstead of getting nutrients from soil, hydroponic plants receive them through this.
What is nutrient solution?
This app/system allows operators to monitor and manage important farm conditions.
What is FarmHand?
This routine task removes mature crops from the farm for use or distribution.
What is harvesting?
If you had to explain the farm to a visitor in one sentence, what is the most important idea to communicate?
What is HydroTech uses controlled-environment agriculture/hydroponics to grow food in an urban setting?
This area is important because it helps separate young plants from the main crop production area.
What is the nursery?
Hydroponics allows farmers to control important growing conditions rather than relying completely on outdoor conditions. Name one condition.
What is temperature, light, water, pH, COâ‚‚, or nutrients?
These systems move water/nutrient solution through the farm to the plants.
What are the pumps?
After harvesting, this task helps prepare the farm for the next production cycle.
What is cleaning/sanitation?
Why might an urban school operate a farm instead of relying only on traditional agriculture?
What is to increase food production, education, innovation, and access to fresh food in an urban community?
A crop may move from this area into cultivation once it is large and healthy enough.
What is the nursery?
One major advantage of hydroponic farming is that it can produce food in places with limited access to this resource.
What is arable land/farmland?
This environmental gas is especially important because plants use it during photosynthesis.
What is carbon dioxide (COâ‚‚)?
Why is it important to check the farm regularly instead of simply setting it and leaving it alone?
What is crops and environmental conditions must be monitored and adjusted?
You notice a plant looks unhealthy. Give three things you would investigate before deciding what is wrong.
What are water, nutrients, light, temperature, pH, COâ‚‚, pests/disease, or root conditions?
Name the two major growing sections we discussed during the farm tour.
What are the nursery and cultivation areas?
Explain why hydroponics can be useful for producing food in an urban environment like Philadelphia.
What is a system that can produce food in a controlled space without requiring traditional farmland?
Why are sensors and monitoring systems important in an indoor farm?
What is they help operators identify and respond to changing growing conditions?
Put these operations in a logical order: seed, grow, harvest, clean/reset.
What is seed → grow → harvest → clean/reset?
FINAL CHALLENGE: Explain how the nursery, cultivation area, water/nutrient systems, lighting, HVAC, sensors, and human operators work together as ONE farm system.
What is an integrated controlled-environment agricultural system in which each component supports plant growth and production?