Research shows exposure to nature is critical for child development. Turn Back Time, Inc., (TBT) provides farm and nature-based programs for children, including those with exceptional needs, to learn and develop through play in nature. The farm’s gardens provide the context, materials, tools, and opportunities needed to run TBT’s programs. A drought in 2016 dried up the farm’s water source, killing the gardens. The purpose of this project was to engineer a resilient watering system to reduce the gardens’ vulnerability to drought while ensuring TBT’s programs, and their associated benefits, can continue.

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Creator

• Werra, Kyle Anthony
• Murphy, Connor Mcmahon
• Salafia, Cassandra Lynne
• Adams, Virginia Leigh

Subject

• Infrastructure
• Water
• Environment
• Sustainability

Publisher

• Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Identifier

• E-project-072518-203326

Keyword

• Agriculture
• Farm management
• Teaching

Advisor

• Stoddard, Elisabeth Anne

Year

• 2018

Center

• Sustainable Food Systems Project Center - IQP
• Farm Stay Project Center (Massachusetts) - IQP

Sponsor

• Turn Back Time, Inc. (TBT)

Date created

• 2018-07-25

Location

• Worcester

Resource type

• Interactive Qualifying Project

Rights statement

• In Copyright

Last modified

• 2021-08-09