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Benefits for Children

Week 1

Ready to Start in Your Classroom?

  • Increases children's interest in eating fresh fruits and vegetables.
  • The produce from the tower garden is a healthy alternative to fast food
  • Children can become active in learning the process of how plants are grown

Monmouth Conservation Foundation is donating 5 Tower Gardens to Middle Schools in Monmouth County in the 2018/2018 school year.

Contact Amanda at abrockwell@monmouthconservation.org to learn more and apply today!

Benefits

Why Tower Gardens?

  • Students have access to fresh food
  • According to NASA research, the time to grow plants in the tower is cut in half.
  • Recycles 100% of the nutrients and water, plants therefore use less than 10% of both the water and the land that are commonly used in conventional or organic farming.

Week 2

How Aeroponic Towers Work

  • Sustainability: Aeroponic growing uses far less natural resource than traditional agriculture. It also allows growing in places people have never used before...like in a city, on a rooftop, or in a basement, allowing for creative reuse of space and resources.
  • Nutrition: Fresh food takes better! Kids who don't like vegetables often enjoy eating the fresh, bright green piece of lettuce that they grew themselves.
  • Organics: Produce is grown without the use of harmful pesticides and chemicals. This provides an opportunity for dialogue about what organic means and health impacts in the classroom.

Constructing the Tower

  • From there, the nutrient solution drips through the central “tower” using a special device that evenly distributes the nutrient solution over the exposed plant roots.
  • As the solution goes down the tower, the nutrient solution feeds the plants’ roots and becomes highly oxygenated as the solution goes back down to the reservoir.
  • Base
  • 5 tower tiers each consisting of 4 pod holders
  • Metal rods placed to keep structure together to assemble the five separate tiers.
  • Internal Tubing
  • Plug which plugs into a timer

Planting the Seeds

Week 3

Aeroponic STEM Project

  • Take the pods and soak in purified or distilled water overnight.
  • Take the pods out and set them in a tray.
  • Plant the lettuce seeds in the center of the pods
  • Sprinkle vermiculite over the pods
  • Sprinkle water over the rock wool
  • Add water to tray ( a little under halfway of pods) and maintain this water level
  • Set the tray in sunlight
  • Wait until the seeds sprout
  • Place pods in the pod holders on the tower
  • Testing the growth rate of lettuce plants
  • Your class will plant 20 pods
  • The plants will take about 5 weeks before they were ready to harvest.

How Aeroponic Tower Works

Week 4

  • The aeroponic garden has a 20 gallon water reservoir at its base.
  • This reservoir stores the nutrient solution combined with water.
  • Inside the reservoir is a small, low wattage submersible pump.
  • The pump pushes the nutrient solution up through a small central hose, all the way to the top of the Tower Garden.

Materials Used

  • JuicePlus vertical aeroponic tower garden
  • Lettuce seeds
  • 20 rock wool plant pods
  • Water pump, timer and drain tube
  • Tower Tonic Mineral Blend plant food (1 qt each A and B)
  • pH test kit and 1 bottle each of pH+ and pH
  • Ruler
  • Grow lights
  • Tomato cage

Note: All materials will be donated by Monmouth Conservation Foundation

Week 5

About Aeroponics

Aeroponics is the process of growing plants in an air or mist environment without the use of soil.

Aeroponic and STEM Education

Kids for Conservation - Tower Gardens

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