Dave Myler, owner of Blue Grotto, carefully grooms the lettuce for harvest this week. The hydroponic farm currently uses about 5,000 to 8,000 gallons of spring water each day, pumped from the cave at ...

In late 2008 when the housing market collapsed, David and Terry Quick decided to get out of the construction business and into farming. “People don’t always need concrete patios, but they always need ...

If it hadn’t been for the pandemic, Derek Drake would have never discovered his purpose. Furloughed from his job at Northwestern University in 2020, he asked himself: “What’s the right next move?” ...

In the early 2000s, Tommy Romano started to grow plants in his basement. He wanted to experiment with ways to efficiently grow food inside through vertical farming rather than the traditional way. He ...

DES MOINES, Iowa — WesleyLife Meals on Wheels in Des Moines opened a futuristic, indoor, hydroponic farm in December, changing the way crops can be grown. Inside the 3,000 square-foot farm on ...

The lettuce is tasting fresher at RIT’s main campus since the university installed a hydroponic farm-in-a-box behind the Student Alumni Union. Made from an upcycled freight container, the new RIT ...

TAYLOR RIDGE, Ill. — On Earth Day, April 22, students from Rockridge High School will host an interactive Agriculture Day and harvest the first haul from their inaugural hydroponic farm. For the last ...

In the near future, students and staff at Fresno, Calif., Unified high schools will be able to harvest their own lettuce, bell peppers and tomatoes from a very non-traditional farm located on their ...

Gilcrest Elementary School fifth graders will “flex” the food products they grew in an indoor hydroponic farm at a Colorado conference in June. The Fork Farms Flex Farm, an in-classroom hydroponic ...

Apr. 25—BRUSHFORK — Doug Lusk has combined his knowledge of science, agriculture and nutrition to open a produce store in Brushfork that has the area's only indoor hydroponic growing system. Called ...