The Mobile Classroom Upgrade
This is The Mobile Classroom Upgrade. It is a steel shelving system j-Welded together, with four steel shelves, an independent front suspension with all-terrain tires. It comes standard with a 55” Monitor, onboard AC Inv erter and Backup batteries. A power strip for plugging into, a solar panel and rain cover that makes it all-season and it’s own PA system and 5G hotspot.
Portable Power and a Mobile Coop
This portable coop comes equipped with automatic feeder, a waterer, manure detection feature, wheels, a suspension and onboard power for everything powered by the sun, a solar panel and batteries.
The Age of Steel - Part 3
As Mezzacello matures and becomes more active with camps and content, we are finding time and again that steel makes the most sense in terms of infrastructure.
An Engineered and Mobile Ecology
Last week the kids in my Biomechanics summer camp created a very innovative mobile, sustainable animal cage from scratch! Learn how they did it here.
Multiple Career Hats at Mezzacello
At Mezzacello Urban Farms kids wear different hats every day! What careers do you think they might be interested in?!
Prepping For The Environmental and Climate Justice Academy
Become a part of the Ohio EPA-funded FREE Environmental an Climate Justice Academy! Learn more here!
How Kids Can Monitor and Protect Their Environment
At a Mezzacello Urban Farm Summer Camp for Middle School Students, a team of kids tested, monitored, diagnosed a parasite, and treated a 7000kl pond and the vet approves!
Baby Garden Assassins
Baby ducks and their mother are truly garden assassins! Ther will not be a tick, a mosquito, or a cicada that will survive I should think!
Computer Power and Exponential Growth
This is a poignant reminder of the irrtional and transcendent numbers in our universe. Pi, Phi, e, and i. This tiny chip on the bottm photo has more memory than that ENTIRE BUILDING.
The Arches Into The Allee in 2024
After five years of pruning and growing, the hornbeam allee and the arches that punctuate it on the east and west axis has grown in together. It’s very dramatic.
Biomimicry and BioEngineering
The door to the biodome has been plaguing me. But my 10-year-old bioengineering intern came up with an ingenious design based on a dick’s wing.
The Foodist: The Ultimate Onion
A deluxe and delicious buttery roasted onion dish with Feta cheese, honey, and thyme. All over a bed of strained Kefir and walnuts!
The Foodist: Upside Down Shrimp Sesame Toast
Delightful buttered philo dough atop a puree of shrimp, parsley, walnuts, and butter. A reverse-engineered shrimp spring roll. And oh so good!
Metro High School 2024 Intern
This is my Metro Intern for 2024. Their capstone was to design a series of three design challenges that focus on ecology, quantume effects, and biomechancs. They rocked it.
Lesson: Immunity and Popsicles
Students will explore the relationship between natural immune system boosters and biochemical reactions while creating popsicles.
Welcome to the TerraRover
Mezzacello Urban Farm is proud to add the NASA/AREN TerraRover project to our farm and curriculum. This ground-based, Landsat-connected rover will allow Mezzacello to tie the farm to the atmosphere and beyond innew and surprising ways.
We Love Community Service Days
Mezzacello recently hosted a group of teens from Columbus School for Girls to get some service hours in. They were delightful and such a huge help! Ask about your school finding service hours!
Workshop: Quantum Effects In Nature
A unique one-day STEM workshop where kids learn and compete or cooperate to understand how we use quantum effects on a farm.
Workshop: Physical Electricity
A unique one-day STEM workshop where kids learn and compete or cooperate to better understand how we use renewables on a farm.
Workshop: BioEngineering Basics
A unique one-day STEM workshop where kids learn and compete or cooperate to better understand how nature engineers systems.