 Students at Crosby Ironson High School today got an inside look and an alternative way to grow food. The owner of Grow Shed was giving presentations to high schoolers about his hydroponic growing system that he started in Emily, Minnesota. A Grow Shed allows you to grow almost any type of food all year round through hydroponics. The technology is completely customizable to the space that you have and uses less water and energy than conventional farming. Food grows faster and John Friesner hopes to make an impact for a better future. Single use plastics, lots of styrofoam and cellophane and stuff like that are used in our food production and they're not recyclable. They're ending up in landfills and so just looking at all those problems with what we currently have and saying, hey, is there a way that we could be doing this more responsibly and handing off a much better and greener future to our kids is kind of the big piece of this. Grow Shed currently sells the equipment to have your own shed and it hopes to start selling the food they produce as well. If you enjoyed this segment of Lakeland News, please consider making a tax deductible contribution to Lakeland PBS.