Categories: Downtown College Prep, Grant Writing, What's Happening
Everybody here at CNGF (California Native Garden Foundation) would like to thank the State Water Resources Control Board of the California Environmental Protection Agency for awarding us a $154,000 grant this summer as part of the Drought Response Outreach Program for Schools (DROPS). We’re so fortunate and thankful for the grant that we received due […]
Categories: Classes & Events, Downtown College Prep, Garden Design, Press Releases, What's Happening
Dear Friends and Supporters of DCP, If you haven’t written a letter to the Mercury News, or the school board trustees or the top administrators of SJUSD, this is your last chance! The vote is next Thursday. Please refer to our previous post with email addresses and contact information of people that need to be […]
Categories: Community Outreach, Downtown College Prep, Press Releases, What's Happening
The California Native Garden Foundation (CNGF) has been helping Downtown College Preparatory (DCP) since 2013 with the design of a California native and edible garden that is used to teach students environmental sciences in a more engaging and hands-on way. This is only part of a great story that has unfolded at DCP over the […]
Categories: Aquaponics, Downtown College Prep
On August 19th at DCP we began cleaning the IBCs, which we use as fish tanks, before we introduce new fish in the next two weeks. In order to clean the organic matter harboring anaerobic bacteria on the bottom of the tanks we used the siphoning method that Ojan suggested. Siphoning […]
Categories: Aquaponics, Downtown College Prep
Intern Elizabeth typed up a lab report analyzing our data collected from the first month of summer, cycling our system at DCP: July 21, 2014: Lab Report of DCP Aquaponics System IntroductionThe purpose of the analysis of this data is to observe the cycling relationship between the levels of ammonia, nitrite, nitrate, and fish […]