To share organic garden tower food security technology that takes up only 4 sq. ft. of space, but provides enough food, minerals, nutrients and vitamins for 1 person per day.
Leader
Christian Wilson
Location
P.O. Box 311 Laie, HI 96762
Youth Entrepreneur Success (YES) Education proposes to implement a food security system that will decrease the amount of farmland needed to supply food for one person for one year from 1.5 acres down to 4 sq. ft. and will also decrease the needed irrigation water from tens of thousands of gallons per year down to 360 gallons per year. Imagine the impact this organic food production system would have scaled up for 7.8 billion people in our struggling environment.
Due to tourism and its remote location, the island of Oahu is one of the most unsustainable places in the world. It’s the ideal place and time to start preserving our land and water, our two most precious resources. The central core of our plan is the use of Garden Towers in family yards or on apartment patios, or in a room that receives no sunlight at all. The Garden Tower also has a self-contained composting system using worms which creates vermicast.
The mission of the Garden Tower Project is to provide a superior portable, non-GMO & heirloom supporting, gardening ecosystem. ”The Garden Tower is a revolutionary self-contained garden/composting system with the potential to transform home gardening, urban gardening, and world hunger programs”. Our team is passionate about healthy food for everyone. Hippocrates once stated, “Let food be thy medicine, and let medicine be thy food.” We would like the produce to replace one meal a day, thus saving about $6 in food costs and providing enough mineral, nutrients and vitamins for one day to survive.
We believe in doing everything we can as a sustainable and responsible effort to help those most in need. We are working towards a more resilient and sustainable economic future for individuals, families and communities. We believe that Garden Towers can play a major role in this worthy effort. Garden Towers create the easy availability of fresh, organic food to populations who lack either the access, or the ability to grow their own food. The primary objectives of this project is to make food security possible through water and conservation with innovative, collaborative, and affordable methods. We also plan to compare soil garden towers with hydroponic, aquaponic and fogponic towers.
Imagine the possibility of witnessing families in the underserved Ko’olauloa district growing and processing their own food in an organic Garden Tower in their own yard, instead of waiting for food in a long line of cars hoping for an unsustainable and unhealthy food handouts from a donor food preparer that has been previously condemned by the Hawaii Department of Health for food safety concerns. Initiating the responsibility of food security is up to each individual or family, and teaching young people at school is a great place and time to start, and it is long overdue.
With our partnership and role with local, state and national supporters, hundreds of high school students, and others, will have an excellent opportunity of transforming a unsustainable food security system into a successful model for the entire world to use to not only survive, but thrive. We believe that our young people deserve the best nutrition and pitching in during COVID-19 will help us build momentum to create a solution to end hunger and malnutrition in our communities.
We are putting garden towers in the tiny home on a trailer so we can take the entire system to the 5 feeder elementary schools in Ko’olauloa: Ka’a’awa, Hau’ula, Laie, Kahuku, Sunset Beach. We will visit Kahuku High and Intermediate School several times since the CTE Building and Construction classes will be using 3D drawing software (SketchUp Pro) to design further improvements to it.