Friday, June 14, 2013

Field Trip #5: Lee County Waste to Energy Plant

We made it!

Our tour guide standing in front of a model of the plant.

Trash being moved for pickup - smelly.

A closer look at the large amount of trash going into the plant.

The claw!

One of the boilers providing energy to the plant.

One of the energy controls.

Another electronic control panel.

The HUGE tower outside the plant - and no smoke coming out of it!

Friday, June 7, 2013

Field Trip #4: ECHO Farms

We made it!

Some Oranges that haven't yet grown.

Our tour guide, Doug!

The miraculous Morigna tree!

Some Cranberry Hibiscus - Delicious!

Some Chenene fruit about to ripen.

Amberella fruit.

A leaf from the Chia plant - only edible when cooked.

Bamboo!

Yum, Mangos!

A Banana tree.

Worm compost beds.

Rice growing through the intensification method.

Dragon fruit.
 
A man-made tropical highland!

A cheap, easily made water pump.

The Prickly Pear cactus!

Plants growing in Zai holes.

Pretty!

Jack fruit, yum!

The beautiful Zinnia flower, with a visitor!

ECHO provides food for the whole world!

More grasses for rice intensification!

Pretty Sunflowers!

One of the goats at ECHO - Very sweet.

The water purification process by using Moringa seeds!

Field Trip #3: Vester Field Station

Canoeing taken through my plastic bag.
 

 Other classmates on their journey!

Some native Mangroves!

Two of our group members on a collision course.

The journey continues.

More Mangrove trees!