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Category: Blog
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Sustainable Farming Initiative Benefits Inmates and Community
Amazing 40-tower Tower Farm project in Portugal was installed in a penitentiary by Agrotonomy, with the help of the prisoners and guards. This innovative aeroponic farm is specifically designated for long-term inmates who are nearing the end of their incarceration sentences. The project not only provides an opportunity for these individuals to learn valuable skills…
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How (and When) to Harvest
General Guidelines – Knowing how and when to harvest your Tower Garden crops will become easier as you get more experienced with growing. It’s important to note that the timing in which certain crops are harvested can dramatically impact the taste and texture of the plant. To make things easy, we developed a rough guide…
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Residential Tower Garden
No green thumb? No problem. Our vertical, aeroponic garden systems allow you to grow your own produce without the learning curve or time commitment of traditional gardening. Grow greens and herbs indoors with Tower Garden HOME, or enjoy a wide variety of fruits, vegetables, herbs and flowers with the Tower Garden FLEX. Each model takes up less…
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How to Grow Baby Greens
GROWING INFORMATIONBaby Greens DIFFICULTY1 out of 5 leaves TIME TO HARVEST2-3 weeks INDOOR VS OUTDOORBoth BEST TOWER POSITIONTop Why We Love Baby Greens Anyone can grow baby greens in their Tower Garden. Not only are they efficient in space, but they also grow quicker than any other Tower Garden crop, and, best of all, they…
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How To Clean Your Tower Garden
Cleaning your Tower is actually a lot simpler than you may think, and we recommend doing this between every planting season to keep your Tower and future plants growing their best. Follow these steps to clean and store your Tower and a shout out to our friends at Living Towers for some easy-peasy advice they’ve discovered over…
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Greenhouse Gardening: How to Extend Your Growing Season
Want to grow fresh, healthy vegetables and herbs practically year-round but don’t have a great space inside your home for a Tower Garden? Or maybe you have the indoor space, but curious kids or pets pose a potential challenge? A greenhouse for growing outside may be your answer. If you’re a budding gardener, you might be…
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Ultimate Guide to a Pest-Free Garden
Pests: They’re arguably the most common, and exhausting challenge for new and seasoned growers alike. While Tower Gardens don’t attract the attention of pests quite like traditional gardens, it’s still a good idea to know what to watch out for and how to deal with pests, if needed. Whether you’re growing indoors or outside, there…
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Troubleshooting: Common Tower Garden Challenges (and How to Address them)
Throughout the course of your Tower Garden journey, there’s a chance you may run into some problems. Pests, plant disease, and algae are all common gardening challenges that will require some problem-solving. Fortunately, most common Tower Garden issues can be overcome with just a few simple steps. Explore these simply ways to fix them –…
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How To Know When Your Plants Need Some Love
Do you understand plant language? Plants send messages all the time — from requests for resources to warnings of trouble. They communicate with visual cues, such as altered leaf colors and shapes. If you learn to read these signs, you’ll catch minor issues before they become big problems, thereby getting the most out of your garden…
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Top 10 Common Indoor Garden Pests
One of the best things about growing with Tower Garden is that it’s low maintenance. Thanks to features like a digital pump and timer, the Tower Garden is able to grow delicious vegetables, herbs, fruits, and more with minimal effort or intervention required. As with any garden, growers will need to be on the lookout…
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Maintaining Your Tower
While gardening with Tower Garden isn’t nearly as demanding as traditional gardening methods, there will be times when you will need to roll up your sleeves and perform some basic maintenance and cleaning. From cleaning to refilling the reservoir, we’ve outlined a few quick and easy tips for keeping your garden in tip-top shape. Daily: …
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Tower Farms / Yield & Profit Calculator / Costs
Calculate your success rate. Enter the size of your growing space and the intended height of your towers to get a glimpse of how much you can yield and earn with Tower Farms. Example: Explore Tower Farms: With a vertical aeroponic design, the Tower Farms growing system allows you to sustainably grow food where conventional,…
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Tim Blank
Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer at the Tower Garden Company, Inventor/US Patent Holder US10,136,594 B2. As a globally recognized authority on hydroponics and urban farming, Tim Blank aims to inspire healthy and sustainable living around the world through advanced, easy-to-use technology and training. Tim began his professional career in Disney’s state-of-the-art EPCOT hydroponic greenhouses. After…
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UH Culinary Institute to install 60 vertical farms
Troy Albright of True Garden and Tim Blank of Tower Farms are helping the Culinary Institute plan a tower farm of its own. (Hawaii News Now) By Mahealani Richardson for Hawaii News Now HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) – The University of Hawaii’s Culinary Institute of the Pacific hopes to install 60 tower gardens in its test kitchen and…
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Grow Yourself to Greater Health
You probably already know that you should eat a lot of fruits and vegetables every day—and the more variety, the greater the benefit. Luckily, you can grow both a high number and large variety of vegetables, herbs, fruits and flowers with Tower Garden. In fact, Tower Garden can grow more than 150 different wellness-promoting plants. (The only…
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Gather In Omaha and their Aeroponic Urban Farm – Restaurant
These guys at Gather in Omaha have done an amazing job at installing a very cool aeroponic urban farm in their basement, which has become a great attraction for their guests. Eating the healthiest food possible harvested tower-to-table style just below the restaurant makes for a special customer experience, no doubt. Restaurants can benefit so…
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Design you farm’s layout
Your farm’s layout will ultimately depend on the unique details of your growing space (as well as how many towers you decide to grow). But for your inspiration, here are three examples (in PDF format) of how you could structure farms of various sizes. Small Farm (24′ x 43′ 10″) » Medium Farm (24′ x…
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Greenhouse Farming
Maximize climate control with a greenhouse farm. When farming in a greenhouse, you can tweak temperature, humidity, and other environmental variables to perfection. And that means you can produce premium crops out of season, efficiently manage pests,grow year-round, and more. Grow your own greenhouse farm With Tower Farms, you can fit 10x more plants in…
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19 Sources for Seeds and Seedlings
If you’ve never grown a garden before, getting started can be a little overwhelming. Sure, Tower Garden simplifies things by taking out a lot of the guesswork. But for those of us without green thumbs, there’s still a bit of a learning curve, particularly when it comes to starting plants. Should you use seeds or…
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Tower Talks: Tower Farming with Green Food Solutions
Tower Garden is known as an easy, simple way to grow fresh produce at home. However, organizations like Green Food Solutions use Tower Garden and its aeroponic technology to address real world problems such as food security in urban areas. Based in New York City, Green Food Solutions is a Tower Farm, which comprises multiple Tower Garden growing systems and…
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Engage Students with a Classroom Tower Garden
6 Reasons Tower Garden Is a Great Teaching Tool As Global Teacher Prize Finalist Stephen Ritz said, Tower Garden “is the most cost-effective school garden aligned to academic outcomes one can ever imagine.” No wonder we’ve seen thousands of schools across the country take up Tower Gardening! Here are just a few reasons we think you’ll love…
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Tower Garden Growing Resource Guide
At Tower Garden, the success of our growers is paramount. Our aeroponic gardens are designed to make healthy living more simple and accessible than ever before. With that said, there are times when our growers could use a helping hand. Through YouTube videos, blogs, guides, and even lesson plans, our team is always looking for…
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5 Reasons Farming Is the Hottest Restaurant Trend Right Now
Imagine: You’ve just been seated at the swankiest new rooftop restaurant in town. And as the sun sets over the city skyline, you hear the buzz of insects dancing above vibrant, yellow zucchini blossoms. You inhale the sweet grassiness of tomato plants just inches from your table. And you watch the chef harvest fresh arugula…
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This Is Why Corporate Gardens Are Catching On
A blue glow radiates from computer monitors. Fluorescent lights buzz overhead. Listless fingers tap sporadically from behind cubicle walls as the smell of burnt coffee hangs in the air. This is the quintessential office experience. And though it may seem quite sterile, it’s increasingly becoming a launch pad for life. Plant life, specifically. Keep reading…
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Tower Talks: TidePoole’s Serving Tower-to-Table Pizzas
We visit restaurants with the assumption that the produce they use is fresh, healthy, and clean. But how do we know for sure? Well, Troy Poole, owner of TidePoole’s in sunny Newport Beach, California., is going above and beyond to ensure his customers are served the best possible ingredients. The specialty SoCal restaurant uses produce…
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Women Farmers: Sally Herbert of Altius Farms Talks Being a Woman in the Industry
According to the 2020 CEA Census Report, women in agriculture are on the rise, representing 43% of the world’s agricultural labor, with around 5% operating within controlled environment agriculture – and Sally Herbert, owner of Altius Farms in downtown Denver, is one of them. But Herbert wasn’t always a grower. She left corporate America and was thinking…
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Cultivating a Better Mental Outlook: How Gardening Can Improve Mental Health
Let’s get right to it. For many of us, the ongoing pandemic has been full of stress, uncertainty, and other overwhelming emotions. While we attempt to keep our bodies physically out of harm’s way during these unprecedented times, it’s equally important that we don’t neglect our mental health, too. A recent study by the American Psychological Association…
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How to Make the Most of Your Extra Harvests
Studies have shown that Tower Garden-grown plants can produce up to 30 percent greater yields than those growing in soil. But if you’re like most Tower Gardeners, you probably don’t need a study to tell you that. By August, you’re likely harvesting a bounty of fresh vegetables, herbs, and fruits daily. So what do you do with the…
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28 Plants to Grow for a Chef Tower Garden
What kind of Tower Gardener are you? That’s what Tower Garden asked growers in a Facebook poll in April. Of the 4 poll choices (which were based on growers’ food preferences and lifestyles), the most popular—with 413 votes—was the “Chef Tower.” Here’s the description for chef Tower Gardeners: You grow a variety of veggies, fruits and…
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Take control of your Food Supply: How Growing Your Own Produce Can Help Cut Food Costs
The past year has led us to change how we behave and feel about many areas of life – work/life balance, health and wellness, and the quality (and quantity) of food found in grocery stores. Given this, it’s no wonder that more people than ever have taken up gardening in an effort to take control…
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Feeding the Need: San Clemente Urban Farms Sources Produce for Local Food Banks
Greg Licht was gardening at home from raised beds until he discovered Tower Garden. All it took was one Tower Garden and Licht was hooked. He loved how easy it was to grow, and how successful he was with it. He started growing so much that he began to give produce away to friends and…
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10 Urban Farms Transforming City Rooftops
We lose more than 50 acres of American farmland to development every hour.1 In that same amount of time, our population grows by 240 people.2 Less land to grow food + more mouths to feed = big problem. One potential solution to the farmland shortage is to grow on what’s conventionally considered unusable space: city rooftops.…
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Why Water Matters
I have a confession to make: I am guilty of bragging on my Tower Garden. “Why should I grow using a Tower Garden?” some friends will ask me. I reply with a lengthy list of reasons why Tower Garden’s technology is the best, most cost-effective, and easy way for me to grow my own vegetables…
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Women Dominating in Agriculture: Meet Grow Hope Farms Mother-Daughter Duo
For most families, going into business together with your own parent or child may seem like a disaster, but for this mom and daughter duo, Aundria and Makenna Kirchhoff of Grow Hope Farms, that’s never been the case. Grow Hope Farms is an urban farm with a mission to help others learn how to feed the…
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Summer Tower Gardening
Summer can be one of the most rewarding, and challenging, times to grow outdoors. Tower Gardens can benefit from constant sunlight that allows for glorious bursts of growth. These months are also the best time of year to grow larger crops like tomatoes and eggplant. While it’s fascinating to watch our gardens thrive from the…
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How to Garden in a Drought (with a Fraction of the Water)
In response to what researchers have dubbed the state’s worst drought in 1,200 years1, California imposed mandatory water restrictions for the first time (ever) last year.2 And this massive drought doesn’t stop with California. Many other Western states are struggling with water shortages, too. And you know what’s hard to do without water? Grow food.…
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12 Urban Farms Changing the World for the Better
Can a garden change a life? Can it revitalize a community? Can it transform the world? These may seem like tremendous tasks. But as you’re about to see, the power of a plant is profound. (Thousands of schools can attest to that!) In honor of the holidays — a season dedicated to charity and gratitude —…
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What is Aeroponic Gardening?
Starting a garden can be a daunting task — from finding the space and sourcing the tools to keeping up with the maintenance. Thankfully, technological innovations have made gardening easy and accessible to all. Aeroponic gardening is becoming increasingly popular, but what is it? Follow along as we dive into the history of aeroponic gardening and its…
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What is Tower Garden Aeroponics?
What is Tower Garden? Want to become food-independent? There couldn’t be a better time, besides, you can start at any season, even in the colder months. If getting healthy is also a priority, no better day than today to set yourself up for year-round space-saving vertical gardening. The Tower Garden systems let you easily grow…
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Tower Garden HOME – No Lights
Easily grow your favorite fresh produce and herbs with a vertical, aeroponic garden built to withstand the elements. This Tower Garden HOME system comes with everything you need to immediately begin growing up to 32 plants. Eating healthy just got a whole lot simpler. Looking to grow indoors, too? Opt for the Tower Garden HOME…