Students of the American University Nigeria creates Solar Ovens and Chicken Tractors...
Wood-free cooking and organic gardening make for a better life. Professor Charles Reith's students in CDV 107 worked toward that end on Saturday, October 3, when they fabricated solar ovens and chicken tractors to give to the nearby villages.
Rotimi Ogundijo and Matthew Abedoh helped the professor prepare and lead the learning experience.
The student teams worked at the recycling center and used simple materials, recycled when possible. The solar ovens were fashioned from recycled cardboard, glue, masking tape, and aluminum foil.
Rotimi Ogundijo and Matthew Abedoh helped the professor prepare and lead the learning experience.
The student teams worked at the recycling center and used simple materials, recycled when possible. The solar ovens were fashioned from recycled cardboard, glue, masking tape, and aluminum foil.
Each oven took about 45 minutes to make based on a design first developed in the 1990s at a refugee camp in Kenya. The team used one oven to cook a pot of noodles, which took about 10 minutes to be ready for sampling by Professor Reith and others. Tender and delicious!
Two student teams also created chicken tractors from scrap metal and pieces of chicken wire that had been thrown away. Chicken tractors are screened-in boxes or portable cages used by organic farmers to prepare soil for planting; they confine the chicken in the tractor until it has eaten all the weeds, scratched the soil, and fertilized it with its guano. This is one of many ways organic growers fertilize their farms without using harmful and expensive chemicals.
The students will deliver the ovens and tractors to local villages on a November trip in which they will also install an in-ground composting system such as they built for AUN several weeks ago.
Acknowledgement : www.aun.edu.ng
