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Someone contact Steve Hartman at CBS to report this story Christian Heiden was a 16-year-old student at Northwest Catholic High School in 2016 when he decided that he wanted to grow food in Haiti, a notorious food desert, through hydroponic technology, which enables farming without soil. “Social justice and service has been a fundamental part of my upbringing,” Heiden said. “The emphasis on social justice and creating systems that work for everyone and serving is really important throughout my childhood.” The Boy Scouts nixed the idea because, among other things, it wasn’t practical to send a teenager to Haiti to build hydroponic farming systems. (Heiden wound up building a hydroponic greenhouse at his high school for his Eagle Project.) But Scout Heiden could not let go of his original Eagle Project idea...the rest of the story at source https://www.courant.com/community/hartford/hc-news-hartford-levo-vertical-farming-20220429-jwzh7rrhn5fflkkg6wqfzxpz2i-story.html P.S. “The overall maintenance of the system is less than five minutes,” Heiden said. “There’s no bending over, there’s no weeding. It’s compact.” 👍