Peak tomato season — July through September here on the East Coast — is almost upon us, and the anticipation is palpable. Before we know it, those super sweet, juicy fruits, grown outdoors under the ...

Beth Tucker has been around farming all her life. But adapting to today's technology has helped Tucker grow better products year-round. Tucker, 55, of the Dixie community has been growing tomatoes ...

There are plenty of ways of using waste to grow crops, the oldest and most obvious being the use of compost. Compost is great! We love compost. But it isn’t of much use in the myriad ways you can grow ...

Sunshine and seawater. That’s all a new, futuristic-looking greenhouse needs to produce 17,000 tonnes of tomatoes per year in the South Australian desert. It’s the first agricultural system of its ...

The vines are 15 feet long right now, on their way to 50. As food banks across Dallas strive to feed thousands ravaged by the recessed economy, volunteers at the Soulfood Greenhouse are working hard ...

ALBANY – Snow still covered the ground when Jeff Skalicky visited a Villard farm for work in March 1998. At the time Jeff was nicknamed “Banker” — his father Norm is the longtime Stearns County Bank ...

Brooks grows 1.5 million pounds of hydroponic tomatoes in greenhouses in Phoenix, Safford, Wilcox. Chefs at nearly 40 top-tier Valley restaurants are using tomatoes from Abby Lee Farms. All 30 ...

One of the curses of living in northern latitudes afflicts Chicagoans every fall: How can you buy fresh produce when the fields are frozen? The answer, for a growing number of farmers, is to bring the ...

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 ...