While farmers markets are getting ready to sprout around the Carson Valley, students at Minden Elementary School and 15 other Northern Nevada schools get a head start with their hydroponics plants during the first Giant Student Farmers Market on Wednesday at Fuji Park in Carson City.
Part of a project based learning curriculum through Green Our Planet, the students used hydroponics, a technique of growing plants using a water-based nutrients solution rather than soil, to grow plants such as lettuce, herbs, tomatoes and more in their classrooms.
In addition to Minden, Meneley, Riverview, Fritsch, Empire, Huffaker elementary schools and Pau-Lu-Wa Middle School are participating. Minden Elementary third-grader Riley Phillips said she has enjoyed using hydroponics and watching plants grow with her classmates.
"Hydroponics is now my favorite way to grow plants," she said. "I thought plants needed soil all the time, but in hydroponics, I found out that is not true, because how my class grew plants is we grew them in water and I thought that was pretty cool."
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