Recreating Mark Watney's Potato Farm

So we all starting thinking about how and if we could create our own potato farm in school.

We started thinking about the obstacles;

• no sunlight
• no one available 24/7 to water the plants
• soil or something else?

A little more research and we discovered the word/technique: 
hydroponics (noun) 1. the cultivation of plants by placing the roots in liquid nutrient solutions, rather than in soil; soil less growth of plants

We jotted our ideas on the board:

Potatoes and Butternut squash