The boxy white container behind Hancock Wellness Center in Greenfield looks pretty nondescript from the outside, but there’s a lot of magic happening inside. The 9 1/2-feet-tall, 24-feet-long container is home to a new hydroponic garden that is generating produce for people enrolled in a <a href="https://healthylife7.com/nutrition-a-key-ingredient-for-vermont-students-heading-back-to-school/” title=”Nutrition a key ingredient for Vermont students heading back to school”>nutrition program at the wellness center
Hancock Health leaders hope the program eventually grows and serves even more people. On July 22, more than 200 bags of fresh produce were given away at Hancock County Community Night, including leafy green lettuce grown in the enclosed garden
Cilantro, cucumbers, cauliflower, jalapenos and mini bell peppers are also growing there, and other produce will soon follow. The fresh vegetation blooms within a self-contained hydroponic garden designed by an Evansville-based company, Anu
Locally, Hancock Health hopes to grow its hydroponic garden program to eventually serve more members of the community at its wellness centers and beyond. Hydroponics — the technique of growing plants in water or sand, rather than soil — has been used by physiologists and plant scientists for over a century, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture
