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Taproot Collective Build Day
Project Lead:
Carson McNatt
Team Members:
Ben Ocamb
Mitch Campbell
Keira Higgins
Morgan Mistysyn
Chris Kratzer
Duration:
September 2018 to April 2019
End-Life:
The system is holding water, and is expected to save Taproot over $1000 in water utility charges every year.
Special Thanks:
Taproot Collective
Lauren Caruso
ESW HQ (especially Zoe Bottcher and Sohn Cook)
Noblehurst Farms
Home Depot
Stanley Black & Decker
Zone Leaders:
Ben Ocamb
Victor Braescu
Bri Goold
Lainey Celeste
Julia Provenzano
Description:
Taproot collective is a non-profit organization working to educate Rochester citizens about growing their own food, as well as to provide healthy, sustainable produce to the city of Rochester. First Market Farm is their test site, where they are implementing ideas that they may wish to use in other sites. Taproot Collective needs a sustainable, cost-effective way of irrigating their garden plots at First Market Farm. Currently, they hand water using city water, which is labor-intensive and expensive. A rainwater collection system is one of the systems they want to test. To meet this need, we designed a system that would direct water from the roofs of the house and greenhouse on the property to large storage tanks. Pipes connected to these tanks will take water to the garden. This project is under ESW HQ's Build Day program, where teams design projects to be built in one day.
On April 14 2019, 42 volunteers from RIT and the greater Rochester community came together to build the irrigation system from the ground up. More photos from Build Day can be found here.
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