Introducing
The School of Hydroponics
A twelve-week experience taking you from seed to harvest — five gardens you build yourself, from still water to the high-pressure aeroponics NASA uses in space.
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What you're getting
Over the past decade I've built a system I call the infinite garden — a cyclical hydroponic garden where the best plant DNA builds out the next season. And the season after that.
Designed as a twelve-week experience, taking you from seed to harvest with detailed videos and guides to lean on at every step.
My partner and I are in there to answer questions, offer assistance and give you clarity whenever you need it.
The course is ever-evolving. Additional video courses and guides keep being released, and they land in your account as they do.
Course content preview
You don't watch. You build.
Five modules, five working hydroponic gardens, one continuous season. Each one you build yourself and grow food in before moving to the next.
And it starts fast — Module 01 has twenty herbs alive in water within three days, because momentum is what keeps people going.
The five modules
Five gardens, one per module
You build a different system in each one, and every system delivers more oxygen to the roots than the last. That matters because the more oxygen roots get, the faster plants grow — so each garden you build outgrows the one before it. Tap any module to open it.
01 Fill Your Garden (Fast)Still water · 1 of 5 Air to roots
In the first module we get growing in water fast. By day three you will have twenty herbs growing in your garden.
- Twenty herbs growing in water by day three
- Forty-plus seeds planted in rockwool, germinated the way hydroponics wants
- Become a master cloner, propagating your herbs from cuttings
- All of it done in water — no soil from the first hour
02 Growing Your Plants In WaterThe Kratky method · 2 of 5 Air to roots
An introduction to the non-circulating passive hydroponic method — better known as the Kratky method.
- Master the Kratky method from the ground up
- Build Kratky prep jars and a five-gallon garden for fast-moving vines
- Graduate from nutrients and pH
- Lighting dialed in for early growth
03 The Air EffectDeep water culture · 3 of 5 Air to roots
Here you see the advantages of getting more oxygen to your roots — and how much difference it makes.
- Adding air to your garden with H₂O₂ and air pumps
- Build your optimized DWC garden
- Build the “Herb Bomb” DWC garden to house the herbs you cloned in Module 01
- Plant watermelon, cantaloupe, kale, spinach, butternut squash and chamomile
- Master light colour, timing and intensity for vegetative growth
04 Introduction to AeroponicsLow-pressure aeroponics · 4 of 5 Air to roots
A far more drastic air-to-water ratio, and by far the most exciting module. You see the results first hand.
- Build a low-pressure aeroponic tower garden
- Master a working knowledge of aeroponics
- Far too many crops to list here
- Learn to avoid algae, root rot and nutrient deficiencies
- Master light colour, timing and intensity for pre-flowering
05 The Infinite GardenHigh-pressure aeroponics · 5 of 5 Air to roots
The real deal. Building and maintaining a high-pressure aeroponic garden similar to what NASA uses in space.
- Build and maintain a high-pressure aeroponic garden
- Everything you need to know about pruning, trimming, supporting and swapping plants
- Fully graduate from Synthesizing Sunlight — light for flowering and fruiting
- Set up to repeat the cycle and maintain your infinite garden
- This is when we feast
Five gardens. Twelve weeks. Everything I know, in order.
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Included with the course
Four things that come with enrollment and stay yours.
Bonus one
Comprehensive Course Guides
Every module comes with a downloadable PDF. Materials lists, a written reference, and a custom curriculum to follow along with — plus charts, conversion ratios, mixing tables, images of deficiencies, nutrient breakdowns and nutrient timing charts. All the exciting stuff.
IncludedBonus two
Synthesizing Sunlight
The complete e-book that serves as the lighting course guide, downloadable the moment you enroll. You become a master of photons — wavelengths, photon flux density, colour spectrum graphs, and the timing, amount and duration each of your plants needs.
IncludedBonus three
An Ever-Evolving Education
Content keeps being added long after your gardens are thriving. As we push the envelope and experiment daily at Humble Growth, the findings get posted to the School and you get an email when they land. Next up: growing hydroponic flowers, then making your own nutrients.
IncludedBonus four
The Hydro Gardener's Handbook
A hundred pages I wrote to sit beside the garden rather than on a shelf. The reference you reach for mid-season — systems, nutrients, water, light, crops and the problems that actually come up. Written to be flipped open with wet hands.
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Humble Growth HQ · Maui
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What others have experienced
I have grown hydroponically for 14 years and I learned several new things from you. Thank you for making this!Robert Hall
From a 30 year veteran teacher, you have a natural gift for educating the world about hydroponics.Liengreen7873
Excellent instruction!! I will return for review when I extend my growing.DianneModule One Recap · The School of Hydroponics
Thank you so much Chad! I live in Outback Australia and with the harsh weather here I'm stuck growing inside. This course has given me so much inspiration to continue. Cheers!Jason RemseyMastering Your Tower Garden
Hydroponic mastery starts here
Expect an abundance of everything you plant
Once you've fully stepped into the role of master hydro-gardener, you will see huge harvests. Baskets overflowing with produce, and a whole family turning into future hydro-gardeners.
Then it becomes your turn to pass on what you know, and change the way the future grows. Children today need to grow up around plants — and especially around sustainable, forward-thinking practices. As a father of three, I feel that one personally.
Once you graduate from the School of Hydroponics you become an ambassador for something bigger than any of us. It becomes your privilege to share your overabundance with your neighbour. And when they ask how?! — you hand them a Kratky jar garden and become for them the hydroponic mentor that I was for you.
That is the true infinite garden.
Let's grow together.
Chad MinerFounder, Humble Growth Hydroponics
Build it yourself and it stops being theory.
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Hi! I'm Chad
From passive to high-pressure aeroponics
I'll be teaching you all of it.
I've been growing hydroponically for over a decade, with published literature on hydroponic garden maintenance, aquaponics, aeroponics, fogponics, tower garden maintenance and substrates. My dive into the hydroponic world has left very few stones unturned, and my YouTube channel has let me document and share it as I go.
The School of Hydroponics is the culmination of that journey. My goal is to condense and simplify a great deal of information, in a timely and meaningful way, into your transformation.
When I hit my breaking point with outdoor soil gardens I was devastated. Hydroponics became a phoenix from the ashes of that soil struggle. I can tell you with complete certainty: I would have grown a lot more plants, and eaten from my garden a lot sooner, if I'd had a proper tour guide.
That is what I'll be for you.
Choose what works for you
Different payment plans
Once you're a member, lifetime access to the evolving module courses is yours. Next up: growing hydroponic flowers. Then: how to make your own nutrients.
One payment of
$497
Pay once — the lower total
Or 12 months of
$49/mo
12 monthly payments — spread the cost
- Five module builds across twelve weeks
- Downloadable PDF course guide for every module
- Synthesizing Sunlight — the complete lighting e-book
- Private community support from me and my partner
- Lifetime access, including everything added later
All your questions answered
Frequently asked questions
Is this course good for someone who doesn't know anything about hydroponics?
Yes — it assumes you know nothing at all. Module 01 starts with germination and has twenty herbs growing in water by day three. Every module builds on the one before, so nothing arrives without the groundwork already under it.What if my schedule stops me getting through the content each week? Will I be left behind?
No. The twelve weeks are a structure, not a deadline. You have lifetime access, the modules stay where they are, and plenty of people take a season or more to work through it. Your garden sets the pace, not the calendar.Does the course include curriculum or guide material I can follow along with?
Yes. Every module comes with a downloadable PDF guide covering the materials you need, plus charts, conversion ratios, mixing tables, images of deficiencies, nutrient breakdowns and nutrient timing charts. Synthesizing Sunlight, the complete lighting e-book, is downloadable the moment you enroll.Do you offer payment plans?
Yes. Two options: one payment of $497, or $49 a month for twelve months. The plan runs for the full twelve months rather than month-to-month, and either way you get the same course and the same lifetime access.How long will it take for the course to pay for itself?
[Answer this one yourself — a real figure from your own harvests will be far more convincing than anything I could estimate. What a household otherwise spends on greens, herbs and produce in a season is the number worth naming.]How does this compare to a college-level education in hydroponics?
[Worth answering in your own words, and worth being careful not to imply accreditation. The honest version is strong: a decade of applied practice, five systems built with your own hands, and results you can eat.]
Let's grow together
Twelve weeks from now you could be reading your own garden instead of following someone else's instructions.
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