The EcoSchools-Nutritower Educational Package

Grow a garden in your school all year round with the EcoSchools-Nutritower Educational Package!

Nutritower and EcoSchools Canada have teamed up to support schools across Canada in growing fresh produce throughout the year. This gardening package includes all of the necessary tools and the resources teachers need to easily get growing and can be claimed through the EcoSchools program.

The EcoSchools-Nutritower Educational Package includes:

  • One Nutritower indoor vertical garden

  • Two analog-programmable timers
  • Six-month supply of nutrients
  • Coco-coir seed starting pellets
  • Advanced germination kit with light
  • One pedagogical package – Lesson plans & curriculum-linked activities

  • Exclusive access to support and training staff
  • 60-minute personalized workshop with Nutritower:
      • Teachers, students, staff learn to assemble and maintain unit 
      • Hydroponics basic principles 
      • Germinate from seed 
      • When to transplant seedlings 
      • How to dose nutrients, balance pH 
      • Setting light and watering cycles 
      • Understand plant health and troubleshoot plant issues 
      • Q & A session for all attendees

What is a Nutritower?

At just over 5 and a half feet tall and 2 feet wide, and holding 32 plants, the Nutritower is a powerful teaching tool to address carbon footprint reduction, water conservation, food waste prevention, and a variety of other important and timely topics. Best of all, this vertical hydroponics garden runs without any soil, harsh chemicals, or difficult maintenance.

Connect to Curriculum and the EcoSchools Program

Bring gardening inside your classroom for hands-on, year-round learning about plants, food, and nutrition and connect it to the EcoSchools Indoor Gardening & Greenhouses action.

Explore many curriculum connections as part of the included comprehensive pedagogical package, complete with lesson plans, a reading list, an introduction for teachers, and a newsletter template to send home to parents.

Exclusive promotion for EcoSchools

All members of the EcoSchools community are eligible for a preferred price bundle when they purchase the EcoSchools-Nutritower Educational Package, for $1,595 + free shipping (avg. $120 value). A portion of each purchase will also be donated to EcoSchools Canada to support environmental education and student leadership across Canada.

Bulk order discounts are also available for schools and school boards/districts.

Please note that the Nutritower will be available to order in the Summer of 2024. In the meantime please contact Nutritower for information about an alternative product.

Nutritower is a Canadian owned and operated company based in Montreal made up of individuals who are passionate about sustainable solutions.