Since 2015 Steve Koontz has been helping nervous teachers become successful indoor gardeners.

Over 20 years ago, Steve received a free packet of gourd seeds and planted them in a small patch of ground in the front of his house. Not only did the seeds sprout, but the gourd plants took over the driveway and wound themselves into the screen door. That was when his passion for gardening first took root.

In 2012, he moved into soil-less gardening with a Tower Garden – a soil-less gardening system that works well indoors and out and he discovered more about the unique processes behind successfully growing edibles indoors. In 2015 Steve became a Tower Garden distributor and formed TGardener, LLC (Now called Keep It Watered) and began helping schools in Indiana and across the country purchase Tower Gardens and effectively use them in their classrooms.

Steve also offers LetPot and Harvest Wall systems to give schools more options for soil-less gardening.

In the same way Steve believes God provides the resources in a seed to produce a plant, He’s also providing the resources for him to combine the gardening he enjoys with the teaching he loves.

“The Tower Gardens have been a wonderful educational tool for our classrooms,” says Dr. Hoffert, Superintendent of Warsaw Community Schools, “and I appreciate Steve’s work greatly!”