Growing fresh food and flowers lifts the spirit and nurtures the soul. But for most people the nurturing ends when winter begins. AeroGrow founder Michael Bissonnette said. So he and a group of like minded innovators married that notion to aeroponics a highly efficient gardening technology in which plants grow in water nutrients and air.Growing fresh food and flowers lifts the spirit and nurtures the soul. But for most people the nurturing ends when winter begins. AeroGrow founder Michael Bissonnette said. So he and a group of like minded innovators married that notion to aeroponics a highly efficient gardening technology in which plants grow in water nutrients and air.