Project Homework 9/25 ~ 10/2

On Sunday 9/25, we had a discussion about the assignment from the last week. Also we watched the video about Swale, which gave us a big picture about how a healthy farm system has been created. Also we  did brainstorm about the real-world problems that we can work on. We got a list of problems:

1. Bad food that farm animals eat
2.  Monocultrure
3. Fertilizer (chemical and natural)
4. Pesticides 

here are questions for pesticides reaserch?

1. Why use pesticides? (http://prairiecalifornian.com/why-do-farmers-apply-pesticides/)
2. Pesticides benefit
3. What are dangers of pesticides
4. How to get rid of pests without using pesticides (what is natural way)
5. What are the natural pesticides? What are they habitat? How to help them?
6. What are existing ways to help the natural pesticides(animal)?
7. If yes, how can we improve them?
8. If no, what can we do?

Your assignment for this week are:

1.  Find more real world problems that are related to farm, like animal system, soil system, insects system. Also please do some research on it.
2. If you cannot find more, you could research  one or two of the real world problems that we already listed on top. 

Everyone will share his researches during the project meeting on 10/2.