ScienceDaily (May 29, 2011) — A new study from University of Miami (UM) Rosenstiel School of Marine & Atmospheric Science scientists Chris Langdon, Remy Okazaki and Nancy Muehllehner and colleagues from the Australian Institute of Marine Science and the Max-Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology in Germany concludes that ocean acidification, along with increased ocean temperatures, will likely severely reduce the diversity and resilience of coral reef ecosystems within this century.
The research team studied three natural volcanic CO2 seeps in Papua New Guinea to better understand how ocean acidification will impact coral reefs ecosystem diversity. The study details the effects of long-term exposure to high levels of carbon dioxide and low pH on Indo-Pacific coral reefs, a condition that is projected to occur by the end of the century as increased human-made CO2 emissions alter the current pH level of seawater, turning the oceans acidic.
"These 'champagne reefs' are natural analogs of how coral reefs may look in 100 years if ocean acidification conditions continue to get worse," said Langdon, UM Rosenstiel School professor and co-principal investigator of the study.
The study shows shifts in the composition of coral species and reductions in biodiversity and recruitment on the reef as pH declined from 8.1 to 7.8. The team also reports that reef development would cease at a pH below 7.7. The IPCC 4th Assessment Report estimates that by the end of the century, ocean pH will decline from the current level of 8.1 to 7.8, due to rising atmospheric CO2 concentrations.
"The seeps are probably the closest we can come to simulating the effect of human-made CO2 emissions on a coral reef," said Langdon. "They allow us to see the end result of the complex interactions between species under acidic ocean conditions."
The reefs detailed in this study have healthy reefs nearby to supply larvae to replenish the reefs. If pH was low throughout the region -- as projected for year 2100 -- then there would not be any healthy reefs to reseed damaged ones, according to Langdon.
The research was funded by the Australian Institute of Marine Science, the University of Miami, and the Max-Planck Institute of Marine Microbiology through the Bioacid Project (03F0608C).
Monday, May 30, 2011
Thursday, May 26, 2011
Farming the future
With every project we bring forth, The Waters Wheel provides fresh, organic foods and enables truly sustainable gardens and farms in places where the ability to grow is limited by poor terrain, infertile soil or lack of soil, lack of space, or shortage of water. Even a busy schedule or lack of farming experience pose no limitation to a system of growing that is self-feeding, self-irrigating, requires no weeding or tilling of soil, is not plagued by earth-burrowing pests, produces more in less space, and grows food faster by magnitudes.
Our most recent installation is atHollygrove Market and Farm, New Orleans LA. This project supports the community in and around the Hollygrove District community of New Orleans and is offering families a chance at self-sustainability where decent, affordable markets are still scarce in the years-long wake following hurricane Katrina and the BP oil disaster. Meanwhile, in Los Angeles, The Waters Wheel is actively supporting the LAUSD School Gardens Project with placement of vertical gardens at Micheltorena School and Thomas Starr King Middle School. We are also actively engaged in bringing relief to victims of flooding and tornadoes in Alabama and Missouri, projects that were just beginning to take form when those disasters emerged... at least we're there and able to provide assistance and hope.
Find out how you can get involved... rafael@waterswheel.org ...
You can help, or you can have your own garden, single or multiple Towers.
Why do we focus on children? Because we farm the future and the future is theirs. If we fail to tend that garden, we fail the future. In time, it will be shown, there is nothing more important for concerned people to nurture. As we build a better future, the most critical structural component is a firm foundation... We can no longer afford to leave any child uncared for or forgotten. The future is built on them.
In mid-2009, prior to founding The Waters Wheel, I did a survey of child nutrition in the United States. I focused firstly on Native Americans in the United States, the smallest and least privileged minority among us. I visited several reservations, interviewed social services groups, the people themselves, community agencies, and leaders of tribal government.
In many reservation settings, where fresh foods are scarce, few farming opportunities exist. The authors of original treaties routinely relegated native tribes to unfarmable land, hardscrabble in the best cases. In worst cases, the land was re-visited in modern times by industry under color of government authority, exploited and left wasted or poisonous. Since the Cold War era, the Navajo nation is unable to farm land that was left damaged and radioactive after Oklahoma-based Kerr-McGee Corp. came in to operate uranium mines under U.S. government contracts, removing four million tons of ore that went into making nuclear weapons and fuel. These stories are repeated everywhere, throughout the thorny history of civil rights that we have inherited from our forebears.
As a consequence of these factors, processed foods, low on nutrition and high in unhealthful ingredients, are common in reservation towns. Child obesity and Type 2 Diabetes are common there, for a complex of reasons discussed below.
In southern Louisiana, early in the 20th century and along the Gulf of Mexico, ancestral native lands were crisscrossed without permit by the oil industry. Companies routinely trenched through the wetlands to lay their pipelines. Combined with the effect of levee construction, logging of the cypress forests, and the historic BP failure in 2010, land along the coast is today disappearing at the rate of a football-field's area (cumulative) every 38 minutes.
There, the coastline disintegrates as saltwater infiltrates where trenching creates breaks. Salt parches the grasses, steadily widens the cuts. From the early 1900s through today, originally narrow trenches have exponentially expanded, 2x their width every 10 years. By 2011, the sea has swallowed up vast tracts of Pointe-au Chie and Houma Lands. Agriculture, if it exists today, is rarely productive. The area is remote and people are left to fend for themselves. Typically, they build above water, on stilts, where roads have disappeared and access is by boat. Here, stores and markets are few. The history is raw, painful, in these places, where the land gives in daily to a relentless sea. Nutrition becomes a catch-as-catch-can proposition.
Beyond the reservation, in many American cities, a similar pattern of nutrition takes hold, although in starkly different ways. Although the higher tide of seeming affluence helps to lift urban and suburban neighborhoods, food deserts are common throughout America. Overall, nineteen of the 48 contiguous states are rated by USDA as below average for food security. Everywhere, underprivileged communities have become a prime marketplace for purveyors of cheap, fast-foods, laden with salt, sugar, and fats. These foods are addictive by design, meaning that the satiating of hunger compels the poor toward unhealthful lifestyles and habits.
The character and key trigger to failed and undernourished development in our society is hunger that stands side by side with overeating of low-nutrition, convenience-foods. Health problems result from diets heavy in processed chemicals that are light on fresh, living foods. Eventually, this is what buries people, where no alternative exists. Children are the worst loss. As time passes, child victims become prisoners to a life of indolence, addiction, and despair. Where there is access to nutritious foods, the opposite is true.
There are two "Golden Rules" of declining civilizations: (1) He that has the gold makes the rules and (2) Where inferior foods flood the marketplace, nutritious foods become unaffordable.
The clear, bright line that this dynamic establishes is what causes disparity between rich and poor communities, the uneven access to healthy living. In general, processed food industries see poverty as an opportunity. They resist any attempt to require improvement in the food they sell and lobby hard against any kind of regulation. No surprise to discover obesity and diet-related disease occurring among urban and suburban children. Among those afflicted, a great number are destined for lives limited by health issues. Poorly equipped to participate in a highly competitive society, many of those most closely situated at the precarious edge become the first to fall, homeless or worse, further victimized by their circumstance and those who prey on the desperate. This is the circle that must be broken. Even as we debate Medicare and health insurance in the halls of Congress, these are the factors that work against any solution EVER being successful. Food security is foundational to our health, to the health of our economy, to national security, and the continued success of American democracy. How many generations will continue to ignore that reality? Clearly, the answer is, as many as it takes for us to fail or, conversely, as many as it will take for us to succeed. Much is said about free will... There is no better proof of it than this: We get to choose our future.
In the last twenty years, mechanized food production has consolidated its economic hold over an expanding population of poor people. Slick marketing, catchy jingles and tunes, toys and games offered to children, confusing and misleading labeling by manufacturers are weapons brought to bear by profit-hungry food industries against the hungry. Furthermore, because health problems associated with deficient nutrition take time to emerge, fast-food industries are able to effectively marginalize the production of healthful, organic foods by cynically attracting the purchasing power of the unsuspecting poor. Therefore, demand for quality foods is pushed to the other end of the spectrum, to those who can afford higher priced foods, and, again, the circle is unbroken... only the affluent can afford to eat healthfully. Overpopulation and poverty has served the economic needs of processed food industries (and other processors, as well) hemming producers of healthful foods into a tightly limited marketplace of affluence, where more money is held by fewer people.
Running in parallel, industrial agriculture has become dependent on synthetic (petrochemical) fertilizers, pesticides, preservatives, and genetically modified organisms for production of major food staples needed to supply processed food producers. THAT'S WHERE THE MONEY IS.
By now, It's clear: market forces are developing a permanently handicapped underclass that will be useful only for consumption of low-quality, but cheap, processed foods, useless for little else but very good at keeping high the cost of healthcare. Who set us up to fail so miserably... you have to ask yourself?
Globally, about one billion are hungry and one billion are overweight. Hunger feeds industries that grow by providing low-quality foods to the poorest and most overpopulated societies. And because that deficient fare is distributed only in places where a profit can be made for the effort, the poorest of the poor get no nutrition at all. On down the scale of affluence, the marginally poor tend to be overweight or morbidly obese, the penniless are starving. Which is not to say that rich people don't suffer from obesity, lack of exercise, and poor nutrition; it's just that they enjoy access to alternatives. The poor do not.
How do we achieve a more hopeful future? The answer is teaching children, affluent, middle class, and the poor to grow their own nutritious foods WHERE THEY LIVE and to learn an appreciation for the value of farming practices. Farming is a knowledge that has become all but obliterated in modern times, as we have become too well-trained in leaving food production in the hands of industrial monoliths that, in turn, are unshakeable in their tendency to be self-serving. It's time to return to the garden.
By September, 2011, The Waters Wheel will also pursue placement of Aeroponic Towers at New Orleans public and private schools; also in schools and community gardens in Birmingham and Montgomery AL, and St. Louis MO. We will provide the tools for making a difference.
Who are we, the humans, after all is said and done? Flesh and bone and the blood of ancestors, we are a verb of this Earth and our children extend us to the future. All of us, every man and woman, are fathers and mothers of times to come. More than anything else, who our children are, what they do throughout their lives is the measure of who_we_are and how everything we will have done will be remembered. The character of our actions today is how our story will be told tomorrow.
Our most recent installation is atHollygrove Market and Farm, New Orleans LA. This project supports the community in and around the Hollygrove District community of New Orleans and is offering families a chance at self-sustainability where decent, affordable markets are still scarce in the years-long wake following hurricane Katrina and the BP oil disaster. Meanwhile, in Los Angeles, The Waters Wheel is actively supporting the LAUSD School Gardens Project with placement of vertical gardens at Micheltorena School and Thomas Starr King Middle School. We are also actively engaged in bringing relief to victims of flooding and tornadoes in Alabama and Missouri, projects that were just beginning to take form when those disasters emerged... at least we're there and able to provide assistance and hope.
Find out how you can get involved... rafael@waterswheel.org ...
You can help, or you can have your own garden, single or multiple Towers.
Why do we focus on children? Because we farm the future and the future is theirs. If we fail to tend that garden, we fail the future. In time, it will be shown, there is nothing more important for concerned people to nurture. As we build a better future, the most critical structural component is a firm foundation... We can no longer afford to leave any child uncared for or forgotten. The future is built on them.
In mid-2009, prior to founding The Waters Wheel, I did a survey of child nutrition in the United States. I focused firstly on Native Americans in the United States, the smallest and least privileged minority among us. I visited several reservations, interviewed social services groups, the people themselves, community agencies, and leaders of tribal government.
In many reservation settings, where fresh foods are scarce, few farming opportunities exist. The authors of original treaties routinely relegated native tribes to unfarmable land, hardscrabble in the best cases. In worst cases, the land was re-visited in modern times by industry under color of government authority, exploited and left wasted or poisonous. Since the Cold War era, the Navajo nation is unable to farm land that was left damaged and radioactive after Oklahoma-based Kerr-McGee Corp. came in to operate uranium mines under U.S. government contracts, removing four million tons of ore that went into making nuclear weapons and fuel. These stories are repeated everywhere, throughout the thorny history of civil rights that we have inherited from our forebears.
As a consequence of these factors, processed foods, low on nutrition and high in unhealthful ingredients, are common in reservation towns. Child obesity and Type 2 Diabetes are common there, for a complex of reasons discussed below.
In southern Louisiana, early in the 20th century and along the Gulf of Mexico, ancestral native lands were crisscrossed without permit by the oil industry. Companies routinely trenched through the wetlands to lay their pipelines. Combined with the effect of levee construction, logging of the cypress forests, and the historic BP failure in 2010, land along the coast is today disappearing at the rate of a football-field's area (cumulative) every 38 minutes.
There, the coastline disintegrates as saltwater infiltrates where trenching creates breaks. Salt parches the grasses, steadily widens the cuts. From the early 1900s through today, originally narrow trenches have exponentially expanded, 2x their width every 10 years. By 2011, the sea has swallowed up vast tracts of Pointe-au Chie and Houma Lands. Agriculture, if it exists today, is rarely productive. The area is remote and people are left to fend for themselves. Typically, they build above water, on stilts, where roads have disappeared and access is by boat. Here, stores and markets are few. The history is raw, painful, in these places, where the land gives in daily to a relentless sea. Nutrition becomes a catch-as-catch-can proposition.
Beyond the reservation, in many American cities, a similar pattern of nutrition takes hold, although in starkly different ways. Although the higher tide of seeming affluence helps to lift urban and suburban neighborhoods, food deserts are common throughout America. Overall, nineteen of the 48 contiguous states are rated by USDA as below average for food security. Everywhere, underprivileged communities have become a prime marketplace for purveyors of cheap, fast-foods, laden with salt, sugar, and fats. These foods are addictive by design, meaning that the satiating of hunger compels the poor toward unhealthful lifestyles and habits.
The character and key trigger to failed and undernourished development in our society is hunger that stands side by side with overeating of low-nutrition, convenience-foods. Health problems result from diets heavy in processed chemicals that are light on fresh, living foods. Eventually, this is what buries people, where no alternative exists. Children are the worst loss. As time passes, child victims become prisoners to a life of indolence, addiction, and despair. Where there is access to nutritious foods, the opposite is true.
There are two "Golden Rules" of declining civilizations: (1) He that has the gold makes the rules and (2) Where inferior foods flood the marketplace, nutritious foods become unaffordable.
The clear, bright line that this dynamic establishes is what causes disparity between rich and poor communities, the uneven access to healthy living. In general, processed food industries see poverty as an opportunity. They resist any attempt to require improvement in the food they sell and lobby hard against any kind of regulation. No surprise to discover obesity and diet-related disease occurring among urban and suburban children. Among those afflicted, a great number are destined for lives limited by health issues. Poorly equipped to participate in a highly competitive society, many of those most closely situated at the precarious edge become the first to fall, homeless or worse, further victimized by their circumstance and those who prey on the desperate. This is the circle that must be broken. Even as we debate Medicare and health insurance in the halls of Congress, these are the factors that work against any solution EVER being successful. Food security is foundational to our health, to the health of our economy, to national security, and the continued success of American democracy. How many generations will continue to ignore that reality? Clearly, the answer is, as many as it takes for us to fail or, conversely, as many as it will take for us to succeed. Much is said about free will... There is no better proof of it than this: We get to choose our future.
In the last twenty years, mechanized food production has consolidated its economic hold over an expanding population of poor people. Slick marketing, catchy jingles and tunes, toys and games offered to children, confusing and misleading labeling by manufacturers are weapons brought to bear by profit-hungry food industries against the hungry. Furthermore, because health problems associated with deficient nutrition take time to emerge, fast-food industries are able to effectively marginalize the production of healthful, organic foods by cynically attracting the purchasing power of the unsuspecting poor. Therefore, demand for quality foods is pushed to the other end of the spectrum, to those who can afford higher priced foods, and, again, the circle is unbroken... only the affluent can afford to eat healthfully. Overpopulation and poverty has served the economic needs of processed food industries (and other processors, as well) hemming producers of healthful foods into a tightly limited marketplace of affluence, where more money is held by fewer people.
Running in parallel, industrial agriculture has become dependent on synthetic (petrochemical) fertilizers, pesticides, preservatives, and genetically modified organisms for production of major food staples needed to supply processed food producers. THAT'S WHERE THE MONEY IS.
By now, It's clear: market forces are developing a permanently handicapped underclass that will be useful only for consumption of low-quality, but cheap, processed foods, useless for little else but very good at keeping high the cost of healthcare. Who set us up to fail so miserably... you have to ask yourself?
Globally, about one billion are hungry and one billion are overweight. Hunger feeds industries that grow by providing low-quality foods to the poorest and most overpopulated societies. And because that deficient fare is distributed only in places where a profit can be made for the effort, the poorest of the poor get no nutrition at all. On down the scale of affluence, the marginally poor tend to be overweight or morbidly obese, the penniless are starving. Which is not to say that rich people don't suffer from obesity, lack of exercise, and poor nutrition; it's just that they enjoy access to alternatives. The poor do not.
How do we achieve a more hopeful future? The answer is teaching children, affluent, middle class, and the poor to grow their own nutritious foods WHERE THEY LIVE and to learn an appreciation for the value of farming practices. Farming is a knowledge that has become all but obliterated in modern times, as we have become too well-trained in leaving food production in the hands of industrial monoliths that, in turn, are unshakeable in their tendency to be self-serving. It's time to return to the garden.
By September, 2011, The Waters Wheel will also pursue placement of Aeroponic Towers at New Orleans public and private schools; also in schools and community gardens in Birmingham and Montgomery AL, and St. Louis MO. We will provide the tools for making a difference.
Who are we, the humans, after all is said and done? Flesh and bone and the blood of ancestors, we are a verb of this Earth and our children extend us to the future. All of us, every man and woman, are fathers and mothers of times to come. More than anything else, who our children are, what they do throughout their lives is the measure of who_we_are and how everything we will have done will be remembered. The character of our actions today is how our story will be told tomorrow.
Saturday, May 7, 2011
Why Industrial Agriculture Is The Nº1 Problem For People and Earth
From the 1800s, the industrial centers became growing cities and populations expanded geometrically. Farming became an industry, too, a business set upon vast tracts of deforested land. Production was removed from the places where people lived and people who lived where production went were removed. Today, increasingly, multinational corporations mass-produce foods in ways that farm the Earth to the absolute limits of its capacity. These faceless entities maximize profits at people's expense, by design and by any means necessary. Intentionally or not, money is more important in this equation than people.
What happens is that when a dollar can’t be turned naturally in the Earth, industrial agriculture does it in other ways. Machines are put to work to plow the dirt, pulverizing top-sol into dust. Whatever work can’t be mechanized is given to low-paid workers, who risk their lives by exposure to sun and poisons, making sure food gets from the fields to our tables. Chemicals, usually petrochemicals, are needed because the land is farmed to near exhaustion. Mismanaged, the unhealthy land attracts pests and disease. To counter these problems, industrial agriculture uses synthetic chemical fertilizers and toxic pesticides, often in conjunction with genetically modified organisms designed to survive the poisons applied to ward off pests and disease. It's as vicious a circle as ever was devised by businesses that measure the deaths they cause on a scale of manageable liabilities. Statistics prove they can get away with it.
What happens is that when a dollar can’t be turned naturally in the Earth, industrial agriculture does it in other ways. Machines are put to work to plow the dirt, pulverizing top-sol into dust. Whatever work can’t be mechanized is given to low-paid workers, who risk their lives by exposure to sun and poisons, making sure food gets from the fields to our tables. Chemicals, usually petrochemicals, are needed because the land is farmed to near exhaustion. Mismanaged, the unhealthy land attracts pests and disease. To counter these problems, industrial agriculture uses synthetic chemical fertilizers and toxic pesticides, often in conjunction with genetically modified organisms designed to survive the poisons applied to ward off pests and disease. It's as vicious a circle as ever was devised by businesses that measure the deaths they cause on a scale of manageable liabilities. Statistics prove they can get away with it.
Most people don’t know that the food they buy at markets is trucked from hundreds or thousands of miles away, that its enzymes and life-energy are no longer living, that color and preservatives have been applied, gassed, and infused to make them look freshly picked. They also don’t know that industrial agriculture consumes 70% of all freshwater reserves and that it wastes 90% of what it withdraws. People don't know that industrial agriculture floods fields with chemical and poison-laced waters and that this brew floods our streams and rivers, lakes and wetlands, ultimately flowing into the seas, where super-fertilization creates algae that never existed before. This algae is so strong that it sucks the oxygen out of the water, suffocates other plants and fish that swim into its hypoxia zone. Meanwhile, freshwater reserves are running out and the population continues to expand... Earth's resources are being stretched beyond the breaking point.
There is no part of the planet that industrial agriculture does not harm.
It deforests, killing the root networks that once recycled water into underground reserves.
Water sheets on land devoid of forest, runs to streams and rivers.
Turbidity it causes in the streams and rivers blocks light, kills the underwater life, both plant and animal.
Petrochemicals wreak havoc to what little life remains.
In the oceans, it kills off entire species and disrupts the migration patterns with dead zones that have to be avoided.
The transport infrastructure, refrigeration stations, are all heavy carbon sources.
Industrial agriculture is the largest consumer of energy in the southwest, water pumped hundreds of miles through aqueduct
Massive facilities too large to be monitored, are breeding grounds for bacteria, outbreaks of disease.
There is no part of the planet that industrial agriculture does not harm.
It deforests, killing the root networks that once recycled water into underground reserves.
Water sheets on land devoid of forest, runs to streams and rivers.
Turbidity it causes in the streams and rivers blocks light, kills the underwater life, both plant and animal.
Petrochemicals wreak havoc to what little life remains.
In the oceans, it kills off entire species and disrupts the migration patterns with dead zones that have to be avoided.
The transport infrastructure, refrigeration stations, are all heavy carbon sources.
Industrial agriculture is the largest consumer of energy in the southwest, water pumped hundreds of miles through aqueduct
Massive facilities too large to be monitored, are breeding grounds for bacteria, outbreaks of disease.
Friday, May 6, 2011
At Micheltorena School and Community Garden - May 7, 2011
By establishing a garden at Micheltorena Grammar School, the community is restoring farming traditions to an honored status. Children here will grow up with its memory and so will we, the parents. This garden will serve as a daily reminder to us that the earth provides life and that life requires tending. Growing plants calms people and provides pause for reflection.
In a time when slow foods and local farming have all but disappeared from big cities, a return to the garden assures we will grow more civilized. The garden is a strong reinforcement for the bonds that form community because it reinforces the bonds that connect community to beloved Earth-- the one thing we know for sure that ALL people have in common.
The Tower, above, is an aeroponic garden, a vertical grow column without soil, where plants breathe as much as they feed on the nutrients provided. A low-draw (20 watt) electric pump, solar powered or insignificantly juiced by an AC plug, it is one of the best sources for pure foods, bar none. It will be donated today at the Micheltorena School Community Garden. It's intended as a learning opportunity, showing how anyone can have a garden, even without soil.
Aeroponic Towers discharge nothing into the environment besides pure evaporated water and vapor transpired naturally by plants. Yet, it's growth capabilities are enhanced and, up out of the soil, they are not susceptible to soil-burrowing pests. A greenhouse 24-ft. x 125-ft. can grow the equivalent of acres of food, in a pure, clean, non-toxic, easy to tend and harvest operation manned by two to four people. After a century of destructive agricultural industries doing damage to the Earth, this kind of system is the future of farming... able to put farming back where it started, in the places where people live.
This is why Aeroponic Tower farming is beneficial. Not for all foods, because root foods still need to be grown in soil. But if a majority of high-nutrition foods can be grown in Towers using just 5% of the water and organic nutrient needed by soil-farming, in a vertical, space-saving configuration, we begin to address some of the more pressing needs faced by society in the next few decades. Less water needed... No toxic chemicals needed... Harvests done standing upright... Increased yields and faster growth rates.
And growing vertically increases density of plants per square foot by 6 to 10 times. That kind of conservation frees up land-area that can be re-forested and forests help to filter carbon dioxide, smog, and global warming emissions.
This is why Aeroponic Tower farming is beneficial. Not for all foods, because root foods still need to be grown in soil. But if a majority of high-nutrition foods can be grown in Towers using just 5% of the water and organic nutrient needed by soil-farming, in a vertical, space-saving configuration, we begin to address some of the more pressing needs faced by society in the next few decades. Less water needed... No toxic chemicals needed... Harvests done standing upright... Increased yields and faster growth rates.
And growing vertically increases density of plants per square foot by 6 to 10 times. That kind of conservation frees up land-area that can be re-forested and forests help to filter carbon dioxide, smog, and global warming emissions.
It’s too late for our generation to save the planet from the waste we’ve introduced and that we've become accustomed to requiring. The planet will have to be saved by children who are in grammar school today and the children that they will, in turn, bring into the world. The only thing we, the adults today, can do is provide the tools and the direction our children must take to do the job needed for restoring Eden and assuring survival of life as we know it.
That’s what these Towers can help do and it’s in that spirit my foundation, The Waters Wheel, will continue to provide them to schools and community gardens wherever we can. Thank you for this wonderful opportunity at Micheltorena School and Community Garden.
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