Team Meeting: May 21
Community Partner Visit #4: Minutes
On May 21st, our team stopped by both the Hester and Middlebrook Gardens to move media to the new bed and begin testing our redesigned water filter-pump.
Purpose: Move bed media and test water filter
Date: May 21, 2019
Time: 2:30-4:45 pm
Place of Meeting: Middlebrook Gardens, 76 Race Street, San Jose, CA
Who Attended: Brooke, Jazmine, Keala and Lindsay
Image 1: Updated Gantt Chart (week 8)
Using wheelbarrows, shovels and a flat-bed truck borrowed from Alrie and Middlebrook Gardens, our team moved three wheelbarrows (half of a truck bed) full of mixed red lava rock and expanded clay pebble media from the Hester Garden to the Middlebrook Gardens location. Images shown below display the Hester Garden aquaponics system, that is no longer being used, from where we took the necessary bed media. While we have not yet added the media to Bed #4 at Middlebrook, the heavy-lifting has been completed and transferring the media should not take our team too much longer. After the media is transferred, Alrie and her volunteers plan to plant either spinach and arugula or tomatoes in the new media bed.
Image 1: Hester Garden IBC Media
Image 2: Transferred IBC Media
Image 3: Transferred IBC Media
As for implementation of our water filter design, our team struggled with shaping the material to the pump in a sufficient way. Updates to come regarding our second design iteration!