AeroGarden Official Blog

We have added a Boulder class!!   See details below.

AeroGrow is announcing September 1st as National Indoor Gardening Day to celebrate the transition between the summer, outdoor gardening season and the winter, indoor gardening season. AeroGrow is co-sponsoring this day with the National Gardening Association. The day involves offering free 1 hour classes in 5 cities across the U.S. about how to both bring your outdoor garden indoors, how to continue growing fresh produce indoors, and how to start your outdoor garden indoors in the spring. Classes are taught by experienced AeroGrow employees who know a thing or two about indoor gardening. And, we are going to be giving away 3 AeroGardens at each class – including our new, full-sized VeggiePro.

Class locations and details are as follows:
City     Location     Time
Anchorage, AK     Consortium Library     6:00p - 7:00p
Burlington, VT     Gardener’s Supply Company     6:30p - 7:30p
Chicago, IL     Chicago Center for Green Technology     6:00p - 7:00p
Denver, CO     Denver Botanic Gardens     6:30p - 7:30p
Philadelphia, PA     Bartram’s Garden     5:30p - 6:30p
Boulder, CO     AeroGrow International, Inc.
Corporate Headquarters     12:00p - 1:00p

All classes are offered on Tuesday, September 1st 2009 and are FREE. No pre-registration is required.

If you cannot attend any of these classes, a video of the class will be made available on September 2nd at www.aerogrow.com.

For more information contact:
Sara Sisenwein
Marketing Manager
AeroGrow International, Inc.
sara@aerogrow.com
(303) 953-6227

We are announcing that September 1st has become the official National Indoor Gardening Day.  We developed the day to celebrate the transition between the summer, outdoor gardening season and the winter, indoor gardening season.  We are co-sponsoring this day with the National Gardening Association.

The day involves offering free 1 hour classes in 5 cities across the U.S. about how to both bring your outdoor garden indoors, how to continue growing fresh produce indoors, and how to start your outdoor garden indoors in the spring.  Classes are taught by our experienced employees who know and thing or two about indoor gardening.  And, we are going to be giving away 3 AeroGardens at each class - including our new VeggiePro which is our new product designed to grow full-sized vegetables.

Class locations and details are as follows:
City                                  Location                                                                 Time
Anchorage, AK          Consortium Library                                           6p-7p
Burlington, VT            Gardener’s Supply Company                         630p-730p
Chicago, IL                   Chicago Center for Green Technology      6p-7p
Denver, CO                   Denver Botanic Gardens                                 630p-730p
Philadelphia, PA        Bartram’s Garden                                               530p-630p

All classes are offered on Tuesday, September 1st 2009 and are FREE.  No pre-registration is required.

If you cannot attend any of these classes, a video of the class will be made available on September 2nd at www.aerogrow.com.

For more information shoot me an e-mail
sara@aerogrow.com

Recently we launched our Growing KidsTM school enrichment donation program.  Our mission is to help educate and enrich the lives of children and teachers by promoting the love of gardening, encouraging healthy eating habits and connecting with the community through the use of AeroGardens.

We started this pilot program here in Boulder, CO where we partnered with two elementary schools and donated each of their classrooms with an AeroGarden and salad greens seed kits.  It was our hope that the schools use the AeroGardens to enrich/enhance the study of life sciences in the classroom.

So far the program has been extremely successful.  All grade levels are using the AeroGarden in interesting ways.

• Kindergarten is using it to start the discussion on seed and their growth.  Also comes in handy during snack time
• First Graders are using it to draw and use descriptive words to explain the changes occurring with the AeroGarden
• Fifth graders and learning about the evolution of plants and trying to get the salad to return to seed.

Here are some pictures of AeroGardens in the classroom.

We are very excited about this program as the schools can’t wait till the fall as they plan to grow cherry tomatoes, peppers and herbs.