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- Hey, it's Tia Bryant and welcome
to CTE explained on City Schools TV.
In this series we dive deep
into different CTE programs,
talk with students and get a real feel
for what it's like.
In this episode, it's all about
the agriculture program
at Green Street Academy.
From farming Tilapia,
raising their own plants,
and making breakfast sandwiches with eggs
they get from chickens that they raise,
it's all going down here.
So let's go check it out.
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All right so joining me here today
is Chris and Chris, two of the top
students of the agriculture program.
So tell us a little bit about
where we are right now.
- This is one of the
agriculture classrooms
where we normally do projects,
labs and research on
FFA or animal livestock
and other lessons.
- In this class we learn
how to sustain plantlife
without certain materials like soil
and without direct sunlight.
- So is this the only
part of the classroom?
- No the other part is the
kitchen across the hall.
- What goes on in there?
- Every Friday we make
breakfast sandwiches
and we use the eggs from
outside from our chickens.
- So lets go check it out.
Hey guys so we're currently in one
of the kitchens at Green Street Academy
where the juniors and seniors are making
breakfast sandwiches with eggs
they got from the chickens.
- Here you go.
- Thank you. This is an all egg sandwich.
This is specially made for me
because I don't eat meat.
It tastes a lot different compared
to other sandwiches because the eggs
are actually fresh here. -
Well tell me a little bit about what goes
at the tilapia farm?
- With the setup here, it recycles itself
using the same water.
It's just pumping through 24/7
over and over refilling itself.
- So how do you maintain
the waters in the fish tank?
- So we use ph strips and other chemicals
to make sure the water stays at seven.
- We put them in the tube and go over here
on the counter and test them.
And find the results
that they're good or not.
So we mostly use high range ph
or nitrate sometimes inside of it.
And on the vials it say
how much we add in it
and we'll put the ph strip inside the tube
with the water and the chemicals together
see how high or low it is.
Well right now it's all good,
water's good, don't have to take
them out and refill them.
Or anything.
- So what are we doing right now?
- So we're going to catch one one of the
Yellowtail tilapia fish.
- Okay.
- To show you what they look like.
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- [Chris] This is the Yellowtail tilapia.
- [Tia] What do you use to feed them?
- [Chris] Right here in
this bin we have different
types of food that we will use on them.
- Once they are full grown
we'll get a fish fry.
We'll sell some to the community to eat.
- So within agriculture there's a lot
of entrepreneurial
activities going on too?
- We make our own sausage
and stuff and we sell them.
- So do you see yourself working
with agriculture as a
career in your future?
- Yes ma'am. I plan on going to
Penn State for biotechnology.
- Okay. And what about you Chris?
- And I do want to attend to Penn State.
Only because not only
because the agriculture
programs they offer, but also
because of the engineering and technology
they also offer.
- All right guys.
So thanks for showing me down here.
So where are we headed to next?
- We're gonna go ahead into one
of the courtyards that the school has
where we have like another greenhouse
where we're growing plants just in water.
Right now it has tomatoes in it.
Shall we check it out?
- Let's check it out.
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- So tell me a little bit about
what goes on in here?
- In here we grow tomatoes
and we use the bucket or tank
to make a water cycle.
And, it just goes from bucket
to bucket to bucket
keeping the plants hydrated.
And inside of that bucket is a fish.
It keeps the water flowing and then
we'll use the fish poop to help
grow the plants.
- And the panels provide sunlight for the
- Yes. So it provides like it
traps the heat in that it needs
'cause you can't if it doesn't
trap the heat in it's stay cool
it don't really it's not good for
the tomato plants to grow.
- All right guys where are we
headed to next?
- We're gonna go head out back
of the school where we have the
bigger greenhouse, and where the
chickens, where we use the eggs
for the sandwiches.
- All right. Let's go check it out.
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- So now we're at the chicken coop.
- Yep
- So tell me a little bit about it.
- This is some of the chickens
we actually bought some raised
from little ones to big ones.
- [Tia] So how do you
take care of the chickens?
- So we take care of the chickens by
every I think every month we get
a very large bag of chicken food
and we bring the hose for their water.
- Mm Hmm
- But to keep them safe from outside
stuff like hawks and foxes we keep
them inside of the chicken coop
and gates.
- All right so now let's go get some eggs.
- All right. Over here.
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- [Chris] So right here
this is where the chickens
come and lay their eggs
when they're ready.
- Mm Hmm
- But it's cold so they're not ready yet.
(laughs)
- [Chris] Hold this.
- So when they're warm that's how
you know that they are ready?
- Yes. When they're warm that's the
best time for them to lay eggs.
- Okay.
- So what's so fun about this part
of the agriculture program?
- I would say my favorite because
we're hands on out here
we learn new stuff about some things
that we of animals that we learned
like how to keep them safe and stuff.
- [Tia] So what piqued your interest
in animals?
- [Chris] Well when I was younger I
I used to have a bunch of animals
like I would feed outside animals
and my my mom hated it but now
since I did that I've grown a
love for them and this is the
best part of my day everyday.
- Chris are you interested in animals too?
- A little bit. I'm not big of a
touching the chickens fan or picking
them up but different type of animals
I'm more interested in.
- What are the plans for
the agriculture program?
- One of the plan is
for agriculture program
is right over there where you
have a big chunk of land at we have
a bunch of materials where we're
going to build another greenhouse.
And other future plans we also have
is our goat pen.
We already have the goats but we're also
have to wait to get to raise more money
so we can have students like me and Chris
come out and build the pen for the goats.
- So we saw a lot today guys.
We saw you make breakfast sandwiches,
the food computers, tilapia farm,
the greenhouse, the chicken coop
and the duck pen. It's all been fun.
Thank you guys so much.
- Thank you.
- Thank you for coming and letting
us show you what we do here at GSA.
- And thank you for letting us
to show you the experience we have
and share it with you.
- Thank you guys so much.
That was an amazing tour of the
incredible agriculture program
at my school, Green Street Academy.
Thanks again to Chris and Chris
for giving me the tour and showing
me all the ins and outs.
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See you in the next pack Roy.
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