The Calhoun School

Last year we purchased a Tower Garden for use indoors. This year we purchased two more. The vertical tower allows for 28 plants to be grown aeroponically in a 2.5 square foot space. Our goal is to purchase two more towers with this grant. One for us and one for our partner school in the Bronx, The Family Life Academy Charter School. We plan to place the towers in classrooms so that the process of growing plants is part of the life of the school day rather than an added program. Because we also plan to purchase the wheel assemblies, the gardens can be easily moved/shared among the classrooms and other common spaces throughout the building. Although this project is being supported primarily by the sustainability team at Calhoun the towers will be used in an interdisciplinary way bringing together teachers and students from all three divisions (high, middle, and lower schools) for co-curricular work including among others, Art, Science, and English as well as our kitchen.