This year's FLL theme is Climate Connections, and our team chose the effect of climate on our local wineries as our research project topic. We found that wineries are in trouble because our climate is getting warmer and eventually the types of grapes that are grown here in the Willamette Valley (mostly Pinot Noir and Pinot Gris) have a very narrow temperature range that they can grow in. We're looking at two solutions, one a design to limit the amount of heat that the wine grapes get, and another to help slow down human-caused global warming.

This week we invited Charlotte Anthony from a local organization called Victory Gardens for All to come and talk to us about climate change and how helping people grow food at home can stop food from being shipped from a long ways away and help eliminate greenhouse gasses caused from food transportation.

We decided that we are going to give away bucket gardens as part of our research project to help people start growing food at home.