Author: Bruce Galdos; Rain Irrigation Group
Hey! It’s awesome to have you all following our progress through the Springstone Farm blog. I am Bruce, also an Environmental Biology student at Kean University. As mentioned above by our project manager Tiago, we are creating more possibilities and options for our client to progress toward sustainability in order to provide more quality organic food and other organic products for the community. In my group, our focus in the project is to design and modify a storage system which will harvest rainwater to be used for crops.
Hey! It’s awesome to have you all following our progress through the Springstone Farm blog. I am Bruce, also an Environmental Biology student at Kean University. As mentioned above by our project manager Tiago, we are creating more possibilities and options for our client to progress toward sustainability in order to provide more quality organic food and other organic products for the community. In my group, our focus in the project is to design and modify a storage system which will harvest rainwater to be used for crops.
Irrigation of crops is crucial to farming and directly impacts the productivity of food and livestock. Throughout the history of agriculture in America, there has been modifications and improvements to irrigation that economically benefited and gave back more to the farmer than loss, even more so in places that water was extremely scarce due to high drought rates throughout the year ( Joss, A 1946). The irrigation system that we are implementing would allow Springstone Farm to decrease the use of groundwater and mostly rely on rainwater that will be collected from the roof. The collected water will then be distributed to crops through a network of piping. This system can be easily operated and can also provide confidence for the long term development of future crop land.
Using cost-effective resources we plan to create this system in hopes to not only provide Springstone Farm with a sustainable solution to irrigation, but also to educate others about how they can also implement a system like ours. Our concept of creating this specific irrigation system is only just the beginning of our journey as we plan to work out the details and eventually implement the system! So stay tuned for more of what's the come and to see how Kean University and Springstone Farm grow together.
Reference:
Joss, A. (1946). Benefits from Irrigation under Sub-Humid Conditions. Journal of Farm Economics, 28(2), 543-559. doi:10.2307/1232561
Using cost-effective resources we plan to create this system in hopes to not only provide Springstone Farm with a sustainable solution to irrigation, but also to educate others about how they can also implement a system like ours. Our concept of creating this specific irrigation system is only just the beginning of our journey as we plan to work out the details and eventually implement the system! So stay tuned for more of what's the come and to see how Kean University and Springstone Farm grow together.
Reference:
Joss, A. (1946). Benefits from Irrigation under Sub-Humid Conditions. Journal of Farm Economics, 28(2), 543-559. doi:10.2307/1232561
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