Looking for Southern Cross staff or student researchers to assist in the development of an automated, flat packed system for growing vegetables and seafood in domestic homes or commercial properties.
Availability: Approved
Time required: 6 hours per week
Duration: 48 weeks
Requires face to face contact: No
Continued research and development to gather data on plant growth and monitor system efficiencies and constraints.
Plant growth data and other observations
People don't have time to grow their own food due to the labour and time intensity of traditional growing methods our self-cleaning system solves this problem. There is a growing desire among consumers to eat more fresh produce. People are concerned about where their food comes from. They want to source locally grown food, or ideally grow their own food. Traditional growing methods are time consuming, labour intensive and can easily be affected by external influences such as pests, heavy rain and drought. Vegetables purchased from supermarkets are usually heavily packaged, non organic and imported or transported from great distances.
Being part of an innovative team developing a product which will address some of the issues associated with global food production. Hands on experience in research and development of a domestic aquaponics system.
Data collection and analysis
Mentoring, R&D space in HQ in Billinudgel
