"There is much pleasure in useless knowledge." — Bertrand Russell
NASA is obviously interested in hydroponics research as an enabling technology for long duration space flights. They are also quite good at educational outreach, so it wasn’t too hard to find this set of activities for kids on hydroponics. They are quite basic, but cover a wide variety of techniques, much wider than I would have thought. Bookmarked for later.
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