A group of Girl Scouts left a Gastonia garden with pothos cuttings, ramshorn snails and bacteria water, here's why.

Inspired by the humble old greenhouse, a futuristic self-contained food ecosystem was recently on display at Expo 2025 ...

I grew up in Iowa, so I’ve spent a fair amount of time around farms. I’m well acquainted with tractors, silos, red barns and fields as far as the eye can see. So when I walked into a greenhouse ...

Aquaponics fans like the gardening system because it is a simple, sustainable, cost-effective way to grow food. Gardening without soil and using the excrement of fish to fertilize plants yield both ...

Kimberly Aney, a recent graduate of the agriculture program at SUNY Cobleskill in Upstate New York, has dreams of building a small farm that grows fish and lettuce in concert with one another. She ...

The journal Horticulturae reports in a current issue on Purdue University research findings about E. coli in aquaponic and hydroponic systems. Three years of other research about deadly E. coli ...

Sometime last summer, the team at the Johns Hopkins-run aquaponics lab took out some power tools and set to chopping their system in half. In their greenhouse at Baltimore's Cylburn Arboretum, they ...

Unless you are Alice Waters or Barbara Kingsolver, planting and maintaining an edible garden can seem a tad arduous. In her book "Animal, Vegetable, Miracle," Kingsolver extolled the pleasures of home ...