Turn your classroom into a living lab
An automated hydroponic system that brings science, nature, and teamwork into any subject.
The system automates watering, light, and nutrients, so no prior gardening experience is required.
Students adopt their Duragarden like a class pet, for a hands-on experience that sticks with them.
Science, nutrition, sustainability, or STEM: the same system works as a foundation for many programs.
It takes up just over half a square meter and produces several pounds of fresh food a month, with no sunlight or plumbing needed.
An experience the whole classroom shares
"What I liked most was watching the sunflower grow week by week. Salads made with the leaves we grew taste so much better than the ones from the store."
"The system just works. Two 12-year-olds put it together in half an hour: everything comes labeled, and the app tells you exactly what to do."
Choose the package for your classroom
We accept tax-exempt status and purchase orders for educational institutions.
Classroom Essentials
The essentials for giving your students an engaging, hands-on experience.
Classroom Plus
Everything in Classroom Essentials, plus a bigger starter set and PlantSprite, our AI growing assistant.
Duragarden Lab
For institutions that want to run parallel experiments all year round.
Frequently asked questions
It works at every level: early childhood, elementary, middle school, high school, technical education, and even homeschool or gardening club settings.
It fits naturally into science, math, environmental education, culinary arts, and entrepreneurship programs, among others.
Yes. PlantSprite is an optional add-on that offers monitoring, time-lapse photos, and an away mode. It's rolling out by region, and the system works just as well without it in the meantime.
A DuraPod is a pre-seeded pod that snaps straight into your Duragarden unit, and each one contains two seeds of that plant variety, so students get real hands-on growing without any extra kit to buy. Nature means germination isn't always 100%, so if a pod doesn't take, we'll replace it: one free replacement DuraPod for every pod that doesn't sprout.
Yes, we provide a resource guide and sample proposals to help you apply for grants or institutional funding.
Just a nearby outlet, since no sunlight or fixed water line is required. For maintenance, it helps to have access to a sink nearby.
Away mode keeps watering and lighting running while the school is closed, so no harvest is lost.
Yes, we work with purchase orders, wire transfer, and card payments, and can accommodate your institution's tax-exempt status.
Give your classroom its time back
Bring Duragarden's hands-on learning to your students.