Hort Vessel Notes

Intro- Ryan

-Don't want to push people out, find ways to keep existing residents there while growing

-Audubon park is a successful example

-How can they be placed on site, taken away? More than one can be included

Justin

-Two containers (bike/Hort)

-Open to all residents, anyone can partake

-Residents have best interest in what can happen there

-They hold the power to make the horticultural system grow in their neighborhood

-Rainwater collection

-Providing shade

-Challenge to add a restroom (compost toilet, port-o-potty)

-Raising the container on wood or cmu block (can take or leave when moving)

Alex

-Not an exact site, but we have a proximity

-Utilities may be available

-Want to design with simplest ideas in mind

-Natural lighting, air circulation

-A system set in place, can be added to or moved

-People go to farmers markets to buy plants

-Trying to come up with a good business model

Programming

-It can be anything that can help the community thrive

-Farming schedules during the week(how to gardeners go about their typical day)

Mon-Fri 8-6

Germination

Fri-Sun

-Community events

-Potluck, gathering

-Farmers markets

-Sunday workshops, educational

**Can this type of system/time work for this community?

**Hangout for kids after school

-Corrugated metal can be manipulated/cut/ taken off

-Natural lighting is another key element

-Roof hatches = light hatches/ventilation = access to roof gardening area 

Bri

-320 sq ft

-overlapping ideas with program

-Fluidity between the programmatic elements

-Water as a resource and as a feature

-Light/art installation to make more active during the evening hours

***Requirements for a Kitchen***

Kitchen trailer (certified) for cooking/kitchen education

Three compartment sink, seperate hand washing sink, prep sink

Might be to risky, expensive, or tricky to establish a working kitchen

Come up with other options that require more community collaboration:

Food truck as a separate entity(side business)

Utilize church kitchens, school kitchens

Scott

-Keeping it like an open pavilion, passive ventilation

Ric

-What is the kitchen facilitating? Is it teaching? Using an already certified kitchen space instead of creating a new one.

-Is it to facilitate cultural exchange?

-Micro businesses

-After school meals?

-We are working with about 3 Acres max

-Bi-weekly events (Friday evenings always an event/market/music/?)

***Out of ground, moveable garden beds***

Tool libraries for people to rent tools

Host soil, plants etc for people to start their own gardens

"Gardener supply store"

NURSERY as main "function" - sales of plants, seeds, seedlings, tools, other resources

Water collection

Roof stack**

Water and soil on roof

Roof in good shape, nicely coated - be careful of the structural capacity of it

Trellace system on roof and sides (leaves in summer for shade)

PT frames, metal frames

Utilize gravity to send water to the plants

(Hoops over top of roof to create a "greenhouse")

Need to make it easier to access and grow healthier food

Coming from the outside - need to be fun, easy, profitable

Crop king

Channels for start trays

Commercial start trays

(How can we acquire this??)

8', 10', 12' sticks for channels

3.5, 5, 10 crop king NFT channels

The rack becomes the design

- Moveable per season/weather

Light - water - nutrients = healthy plants

Wheatgrass, micro greens can grow in darkness/shades

Tiered/cascade of plants (Need light)

Greenhouse space with channels to grow high demand plants to sell

Look at the project like a plant - roots, xylem phloem, trunk, mouths, leaves, etc

PVC Greenhouses

What type of plants?

Gabby

-Farmers give percentage of crops to school programs to give kids healthy food

SNAP will cover edible plants and tool rentals

-Herbs, fruit trees, anything edible

Who is the workforce. They need to be properly trained

Work with seed to source

-need farmers, educating them

-need more healthy food

-Non-profits and community people come together to make the other components of the program

Florida is diversifying

Leon

Transferable skill sets

Becomes a place for people to be engaged with community

Educational hub - not just for plants

Agri innovations cleveland

Vertical plants

Jen

-City of orlando

Need for starter plants

-hydro, aero

Working with developers to get things built

Grants (apply for them ASAP) - she can help us write them

Phil

Sun studies around Kaley Sq Park

How to orient the container properly

Green roof helping remove heat transfer

Stacked effect (old-florida, pre AC)

HArvesting wind energy??

Sam

-Skin/ garden walls

Raising the container for ventilation

Reclaimed water

Issues with using it for edible plants

Research on

OUC Rain harvesting garden

-evaporation

Electricity to power the pumps

Jeff Cely

Sustainabble affordable housing

Adam

-Bicycle powered pumps

Caitlyn

Who will run the systems, the garden and maintain them

Square 1

Go very basic***

People are very disconnected to food

Can't relate to food systems

How to get people engaged with the very basic concepts of healthy eating/growing food?

How much is this educational? ?How much is production?

Live oak UF Research center