ECHO Farms

Echo Farms is the only place on our field trip list that I had never been before... Coming in I was very interested in how they took the little amount of materials that various groups of people would have readily available and design highly effective tools and methods to grow and harvest food. As an engineering major I liked the problem solving aspect of it.

Clay oven deigned to reduce smoke output and cook food at a high temperature

Well Designed using primitive materials that can pump a good amount of water without much effort.

They also came up with interesting ways to use animal waste to fertilize crops more effectively than methods that are currently used.

Picture of a pond where they have bred ducks to lose there ability to fly so they can constantly fertilize the lake to provide food for the talapia that are being raised there. This is a great idea to provide a solid supply of protein for people the only thing they need to do is feed the ducks and provide shelter for them.

       It is things like these that I believe that Echos way of thinking towards solving word hunger is so effective. Instead of just giving them food, they teach them to grow food so they can help them so they can help themselves and others in the area.

 

 Overall I thought ECHO Farms was a pretty interesting place... Even more so since it was located in
Ft. Myers. Along with Algenol and FGCU the Ft. Myers area is getting more into progressive and green ways of thinking and its been very interesting seeing all three of them grow and thrive over the years.