An urban vertical planter is an easy and affordable garden
Growing a garden has never been easier. Even if you have poor soil, no garden space or limited sunlight, the Lettuce...
Geothermal power fuels the fun at Chena Hot Springs
As my group wanders through the sulfur-smelling greenhouse, looking at tomatoes growing in vertical hangers and...
How to grow 10 foods from kitchen scraps
Meal plans and grocery lists, the cycle never ends. While some of your foods may come from carefully cultivated...
Throw out your romaine lettuce, CDC declares E.coli outbreak
Romaine lettuce is unsafe to eat … again. The CDC is advising people to throw out and avoid eating all romaine...
How to grow a lush garden in your tiny kitchen windowsill
Envision a garden — you probably picture rows of corn neatly spaced across a field or lettuce coming to life...
Amazing plant pods can grow more lettuce in a 10×10 room than a farm can grow on 1/2 acre
Do you live in a tiny apartment and want to grow your own food? Aggressively Organic has an answer. The Indiana-based...
Antarctic greenhouse celebrates their first harvest of lettuce, radishes, and cucumbers
Fresh, local produce may be a rarity in Antarctica, but one indoor farm near a research station there just welcomed...
Local Roots shipping container farms achieve cost parity with traditional farming
4,000 heads of lettuce every 10 days: Local Roots' shipping container farms achieve that while using 99 percent...
10 vegan sources of protein you can grow at home
When most people go vegan, the number one question that tends to get asked of them is usually "where are you going...
Edible schoolyards sprout across war-torn Syria
As Syria's civil war continues into its sixth year, millions remain in the divided, war-torn country. To meet basic...
New refrigerator camera takes aim at food waste
We know food waste is an issue, but often it's all too easy to forget about that bag of lettuce in the back of...
Montreal supermarket is Canada’s first to grow produce on its own rooftop garden
When the Montreal borough of Saint-Laurent began pushing for green roofs, a supermarket wondered if it could do...
40-foot shipping container farm can grow 5 acres of food with 97% less water
Communities that have to ship in fresh food from far away could start getting local produce right from their parking...
9 low-maintenance plants for the office
In addition to mood-boosting colors and textures, it has been proven that indoor plants provide additional health...
Massive rooftop farm in Tel Aviv grows 10,000 heads of lettuce every month
On top of a shopping mall in Israel, a sprawling rooftop farm produces fresh vegetables and greens for thousands...
Space station lettuce farm now producing fresh greens every 10 days for crew
This is the year "astronaut food" meets "rabbit food." Finally, crew members living aboard the International Space...
Arctic town grows fresh produce in shipping container vertical garden
In Kotzebue, Alaska, temperatures can plunge to 60 degrees below zero, making crisp, local produce difficult to...
Futuristic Japanese indoor vertical farm produces 12,000 heads of lettuce a day with LED lighting
Philips Lighting has launched the latest in its indoor vertical farming experiments, with trials at two Japanese...
Amazing Grove aquaponic ecosystem can grow you a salad every day
The Grove ecosystem uses a process called aquaponics, meaning that an aquarium of fish, plants and beneficial...
DIY: How to Sprout Seeds and Beans on Your Kitchen Counter
At my local grocery store, out here in the middle of nowhere, a head of cauliflower costs $5 and a wilted ball...
Pop-up shipping container farm puts a full acre of lettuce in your backyard
What if you'd love to start a farm but you live in the middle of a city with no access to arable land? A new rentable...
World’s first robot-run farm to churn out 11 million heads of lettuce per year
A Japanese company is preparing to open the world's first robot-controlled farm. The facility is designed to produce...
Woman discovers venomous viper in a bag of lettuce
An Israeli woman shopping at a supermarket last month made a discovery straight out of our worst nightmare. When...
Stony Brook’s new hydroponic ‘Freight Farm’ can grow up to 1,200 lettuce heads a week right on campus
New York's Stony Brook University has become the nation's first college to install a Freight Farm right on campus....
Astronauts are munching on lettuce grown in space for the first time ever
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c1Gxn_nfgWA] In what feels like a moment right out of Star Trek, members...
Philips’ new GrowWise indoor farm will revolutionize food production
In 234-square-meters of high tech cells, researchers are growing multi-level racks of leafy vegetables, herbs and...
This next-gen SuperTruck is twice as efficient as today’s semis
Big rigs are big polluters, but they are also a big help. Semi-trailer trucks distribute most of the supplies...
Grow Food at Home with Lettuce Evolve’s Compact Aquaponic Garden
Would you love to grow your own vegetables but think it's too much hassle? Well, a company in Dallas may have a...
Toshiba’s ‘Clean’ Factory Farm Produces 3 Million Bags of Lettuce a Year Without Sunlight or Soil
Does Toshiba hold the key to the future of factory farming? The massive tech giant recently unveiled their incredible "clean"...
HOW TO: Extend Your Garden’s Growing Season With Cloches and Cold Frames
Hardy vegetables like kale, cabbage, chard, lettuce, broccoli, Brussels sprouts, turnips, parsnips, and beets will...
