Figure 1: Schematic illustration of a hydroponic growing system that employs the nutrient film technique method. Credit: Technology Networks. In addition to the presence of fish stocks and microbial ...

SALISBURY — Most farmers rely on soil to grow their crops. Allan Lanton uses fish. In a humid, high-tunnel greenhouse tucked between pastures north of Salisbury, the Ohio transplant is harnessing ...

HEREFORD, Ariz. (KGUN) — Echoing Hope Ranch is a nonprofit that helps people with disabilities learn skills that will help them in jobs and when they are on their own. They're adding to their catalog ...

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 ...

Host Nan Sterman presents Season 5 of A GROWING PASSION, a television show that celebrates all the ways that San Diego “grows,” from farms and nurseries to backyards and schoolyards, to native ...

If you are looking for more than lettuce greens and tomatoes from your home food garden, this may well be the solution: Over the past decade or so, inventive gardeners have come up with a marriage of ...

This past semester the Interactive Telecommunications Graduate Program at NYU’s Tisch school conducted its first ever course in living systems, which encouraged students to take on projects related to ...

These fruits and vegetables will thrive and produce delicious food most easily. Leafy lettuce is probably the most commonly grown aquaponic plant, mainly because it is also the simplest and the most ...

In our quest for a better aquaponics, we each face our challenges. Here in Wisconsin, we average five feet of snow in wintertime along with temperatures below -20°F, and often go two solid months ...