Dear Educator,

Add some excitement to your class field trips this year by bringing your students to CropKing's Hydroponic Greenhouse in Seville, Ohio!

• Informative - educational - exciting!

Students of all ages, from 1st grade to 12th grade will enjoy touring our state of the art, computer controlled hydroponic greenhouse! Let them learn about the cycle of life...botany, science, agriculture, by doing "hands-on" activities and by seeing how hydroponics puts food on their plates!

Your students will see many of the types of hi-tech hydroponic systems that are seen at Epcot Center's Land Pavillion, in Orlando! (We've even provided them with some of the products they use in their hydroponic tourist attraction!)

• Lesson Plans and Free Video for use prior to your tour!

Schedule a tour within the next 30 days and we'll provide you with free, pre-tour hydroponic lesson plans that you can teach in the class room before your visit to build interest and enthusiasm for the field trip. We'll also provide you with post tour activities so that your students can enjoy building a simple, low cost hydroponic system in the classroom from materials they can bring from home! There's no better way to learn than by seeing and doing! We'll also provide you with a free, 30 minute introductory video on hydroponics to show to your class prior to the tour!

• What will your students see on the tour?

See how commercial farmers around the world are growing high value specialty crops, without soil, and without the use of harmful chemical pesticides!

Learn what NASA is doing in hydroponic research for providing fresh produce for space station astronauts of the future!

Your students will take a guided, 45-50 minute tour through a 5,000 sq.ft. greenhouse that features the latest in hi-tech hydroponic growing systems. Some hydroponic systems are used commercially, throughout the world, to produce food crops like tomatoes, lettuce, cucumbers, eggplant, peppers, and herbs! Some systems are still in the design stages...unique, new, and different systems that even Epcot Center doesn't have yet!

They'll see hydroponics, the science of growing without soil, as well as aquaculture (raising fish indoors!), and aquaponics which is the science of combining hydroponics with aquaculture! Your students will vividly see the cycle of life where tilapia and yellow perch waste water is used to grow hydroponic crops!

There will be plenty of time for questions and answers during and after the tour. Plus, each student will be provided with a detailed, written explanation of hydroponics, and how it will affect their future!

This is a field trip that your students won't soon forget…and a great educational opportunity to interest and inform your students! Please contact us at 1-800-321-5211 to schedule your field trip, or you may email us at tours@cropking.com. Thank you and we look forward to your visit with us soon!

Sincerely,

Dan Brentlinger, President

• Here's what some recent visitors had to say...

This is even better than the hydroponic tour at Epcot Center!

One of the most exciting tours we've ever taken!

We would like to come back with another group next month!

• Tour Details

Tour Cost: $3.50 per student Teacher, one adult assistant, and bus driver accompanying the group, no charge Minimum group tour fee of $35.00 required. (For $1.00 additional, each student can take home a basil seedling growing in a hydroponic seed cube with care instructions.)

Length: The standard tour lasts 45 to 50 minutes. It can be customized to be shorter, or longer, to suit your needs.

Times: Tours can be given weekdays, from 9 AM until 4 PM, Monday through Friday, as well as Saturday mornings from 9 AM until 12 Noon.

Show Room/Retail Store: There is also a retail showroom that contains many hydroponic products for the hobbyist, including books, kits, planters, lights, nutrients, and much more! We also offer many varieties of houseplants, growing beautifully in hydroponic planters!

Custom Tours: We can also provide custom tours with additional presentations and/or teaching sessions or interviews in our conference room if desired.

Parking: We have plenty of parking, and plenty of room for buses.