Students at Dinsmore Composite School, an hour and a half southwest of Saskatoon, have built their own hydroponic garden tower to grow produce year-round.
Teachers at the school are using this opportunity to not only teach but respond to challenges like fresh produce scarcity and high transportation emissions.
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The tower is possible thanks to an $8,000 grant from N:OW for Net-Zero, a project by FES. FES is a youth-led, youth-serving sustainable development organization.
In the video above, Global’s Nicole Healey shares more about the tower and how students are integrating it into the classroom.
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