In the Great Problem Seminar: Grand Challenges course I took my freshman year, I worked in a group of four on a research project on Forest Gardening. We named our team after the Lorax in the Dr. Seuss book. We had the whole term (seven weeks) to work on this project.
Forest Gardening is a system that has multiple layers of crops growing in one area, like a forest. Also like a forest, this garden works with nature because it is diverse, sustainable, self-sufficient and low-maintenance since most crops are perennial.
Each team member had different responsibilities. All of us wrote parts of the paper. We also made two visuals a video and a PowerPoint presentation. Our video mostly consisted of our team field trip to a Forest Garden in Leverett, MA and clips from the Lorax.
I wrote Methods and Forest Gardens and made the PowerPoint.
WPI Archived our work at https://digitalcommons.wpi.edu/gps-posters/141/
For more information on Forest Gardening, I attached our 57 page report and the PowerPoint presentation. Our poster can be found online at http://www.wpi.edu/Images/CMS/UGP/Forest_Gardening.pdf.