Earth Week Part 3: Futuristic Farming 🌎

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🗓️ 23 April 2022

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Earth Week Wrap-up: 🤯 In the next ten years, the human population is going to grow by 1 billion, so how are we going to feed everyone? 🌱 Find out how Aquaponics can help as Ten News head writer Ryan Willard sits down with aquaponics farmer Garrison Harward. ✔️ Fun Fact Check: How much water do you save with Aquaponic farms instead of traditional farming? And, test your insect knowledge on today's Trivia on the Ten. ✅ ✔️ Sign up for the Ten News Newsletter! 📧 Email us your curious facts, funny stories, and eye rolling jokes at: [email protected] 🎇 Follow the show on Instagram 🌍 Check out our website for sources and a transcript of today's episode See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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0:00.0	Earth Day was Friday, April 22nd, but one day is not enough for a glorious blue-green globe.
0:10.0	So, at the 10, we are celebrating Earth Week.
0:14.1	And today, the 10 News team is going on a field trip to Brooklyn, New York, to check out a farm that is indoors.
0:21.3	I'm Bethany Van Delft.
0:22.5	It's Saturday, April 23rd, and this is no ordinary episode of the 10 News.
0:27.1	This is the 10 News Gets Extra.
0:31.4	10.
0:31.7	9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1.
0:40.2	In the next 10, 4, 4, 3, 2, 1. In the next 10 years, the human population is going to grow by 1 billion.
0:46.6	How will we feed everyone?
0:48.4	Well, 10 News head writer Ryan Willard sat down with Aquaponics farmer Garrison Harward.
0:54.8	Aquaponics is a way to grow plants where fish and other aquatic creatures create nutrients in the
1:00.0	water and the water is then cleaned by the roots of the plants. It's one of the greenest ways to grow
1:05.4	plants and it could be the future of urban food production. Garrison found a way to grow fresh food with fish, bugs, and table scraps.
1:17.0	Ryan Willard here, head writer of the 10 News.
1:19.9	I'm joined by Tessa Flannery, staff writer on the 10 News, and I am here with a gentleman
1:24.6	who's going to show us something that I've never seen before.
1:27.7	So first off, tell us who you are and what it is you do.
1:30.8	My name is Garrison Harward, and I am a aquaponic farmer in Brooklyn, New York.
1:36.5	What exactly is an aquaponic farmer?
1:39.9	So aquaponics is the process of using fish in order to grow vegetables in a hydroponic system in a controlled way.
1:47.6	Whoa. So repeat that from me.
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