Students throughout the valley are taking environmental lessons indoors. With the help of local nonprofit Green Our Planet, teachers across Clark County are installing hydroponics gardens in classrooms, allowing students to grow vegetables without soil.
"Lettuce, collard greens….our students help to decide what we want to plant," said Levi Casto, who teaches environmental arts at Cactus Park Elementary in North Las Vegas.
"It's just a lot of fun to have them realize that they have the power to create their own foods and to create their own plants, no matter where they are," Casto said of his students learning with the hydroponics lab.
"Just the power of, like, collecting an egg, petting a chicken, you know, checking on your plants each day to see what's new," Casto said, who founded Cactus Park to engage students with agriculture.
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