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Nutritower has partnered with McGill Masters student Rose Seguin to compare the nutritional value of produce grown in the Nutritower to the ones you buy at the grocery store.   For the purpose of graduate studies on agricultural development across northern Canada, through the NSERC-CREATE program, Rose has partnered with our team as our intern and science consultant. Take a minute to learn more about Rose and why her work matters. Since beginning her graduate studies at McGill University in Bioresource Engineering, Rose Seguin has participated in several projects aimed at developing sustainable solutions in agricultural practices. She advocates for...

Did you know that the food that we eat also is the largest contributor to water consumption on the planet? In fact, according to UNESCO’s World Water Assessment Program, about 70% of all water drawn from rivers, lakes, and aquifers is utilized for crops, and this number goes up to 90% in developing nations. Consider this: a conventional head of lettuce produces a water footprint of 65 litres in order to reach your table. 65 litres!! And lets not even dare talk about beef production. The numbers are truly shocking at 15,500 litres per 1 kilogram — enough to fill a...

Over the past few months, we’ve been seeing a lot more people posting content of their Nutritowers and the food they make with their hyper-local produce! “From Tower to the table” is one of our mottos so it always makes us really happy to see these kinds of posts. A few weeks into the pandemic we started seeing more and more Nutritowers on our social media feeds. One of the people posting was Calum Macphee. He was posting these delicious looking meals. So we started talking to him. We find out that he recently moved his family to a farm to be...