Winnipeg Free Press: Shelter growing health and hope

The idea for the vertical farm all started last March with a lettuce donation by a biosystem engineering Masters student at the University of Manitoba.

Trina Semenchuk, who is also the owner of The Little Greenhouse that Could, is writing her thesis on the amount of energy needed to grow vegetables with a hydroponic system.

Semenchuk said to get the data she needs for her paper, she grew 360 lettuce plants in a hydroponic system – and then didn’t know what to do with all of the vegetables she harvested.

“I called Siloam,” she said. “They were happy to get the lettuce”.

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