From left to right, Beth Drum, Alpine Bank senior vice president; Darla Andersen, Riverhouse Children’s Center executive director; and Eric Eicher, Alpine Bank president, show off one of the aeroponic setups. Riverhouse Children’s Center launched a program to grow year-round organic fruits and vegetables through a soil-free method called aeroponics.
Riverhouse Children’s Center, with support from Alpine Bank, recently launched a program to grow year-round organic fruits and vegetables through a soil-free method called aeroponics.
The program will allow four “tower gardens” to be grown at the school and provide Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics programming to students. The first tower garden was started Sept. 19.
For more information, visit www.riverhousecci.org.
