Farming
an area of land and its buildings used for growing crops and rearing animals, typically under the control of one owner or manager.
Farm
Use as a light source for microgreens.
Grow Light
Found in the organic matter layer of soil and acts as decomposers
insects and worms
Step of the process where you improve your prototype
Iterate
The complex, interconnected web of activities, actors, and resources involved in producing, processing, distributing, consuming, and disposing of food.
Food System
a shared, managed piece of land where people gather to cultivate vegetables, fruits, herbs, and flowers.
Community Garden
Agricultural engineers design and develop tools to help farms work more efficiently.
Design and Development
bottom layer of soil that is mostly made up of rock and not dirt
Bedrock
Step of the process where you identify the problem
Define
low-income, low-access areas—typically urban neighborhoods or rural towns—lacking nearby, affordable, and nutritious food options like supermarkets.
Food Desert
non traditional farming method where cloth used as anchor for seedlings and roots.
During this phase engineers help solve problems with farming equipment and systems, ensuring everything runs smoothly. This support is crucial for keeping farms productive and efficient.
Technical Support
Elemental compounds such as C, N,P and K
Nutrients
Step of the process where you generate many ideas
Brainstorm
a system of segregation that restricts access to nutritious, affordable food in low-income communities and communities of color, driven by systemic racism, historical injustice, and discriminatory policies like redlining.
Food Apartied
young seedlings of edible vegetables and herbs
Microgreens
Engineers wisely using resources like water, energy, and soil.
Resource Management
layer of soil containing insects and microbes
Top Soil
Step of the process where you report out to other people
a severe, life-threatening deficiency in caloric energy intake, causing the body to break down its own tissues for fuel
Starvation
the process by which a dormant seed wakes up and sprouts into a seedling, requiring water, oxygen, and proper temperatures.
Germination
Engineers develop methods for processing food to ensure it is safe to eat. Strategies include designing ways to preserve food quality during processing and storage
Food Processing and Safety
a living organism of the kind exemplified by trees, shrubs, herbs, grasses, ferns, and mosses, typically growing in a permanent site, absorbing water and inorganic substances through its roots, and synthesizing nutrients in its leaves by photosynthesis using the green pigment chlorophyll.
Plant
Step of the process where you decide to prototype the most promising solution.
Select
They might make a machine work better, reduce the time it takes to plant or harvest, or find a way to use less energy and water.
Process Optimization