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 ...

High costs and labor needs limit growth, but greenhouses could shape the future of farming.

Dave Chapman, an organic tomato farmer in East Thetford, Vt, stands with his team of oxen in the early 1980s. Since 1984, Dave Chapman has been growing organic tomatoes at his Vermont-based Long Wind ...

On Scott Beylik’s 4-acre farm about 60 miles northwest of Los Angeles, rows of tomato vines climb wires strung from the beams of his greenhouses. There’s no soil, so the roots are submerged in little ...

DETROIT LAKES, Minn. - The thermometer outside says it's well below zero, yet Don and John Skarie wear T-shirts for today's work. It's bright and comfortably warm inside Lakeview Greenhouses as father ...

If you're an indoor gardener with limited space, hydroponic gardening is a great solution to growing your own vegetables. Although it isn't just for indoors, you can also set up the easiest vegetables ...

The latest salvo in the battle between traditional organic farmers — who grow in nutrient-rich soil — and soil-free hydroponic operators centers on a prohibited weed-fighting chemical. Soil farmers ...

In hydroponic agriculture, plants are grown in nutrient-enriched water. Most hydroponic farms are indoors and climate-controlled. They typically use zero pesticides and their status as organic has ...

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 ...

Come July, near the end of their growing season, the heirloom tomato vines at Sanford’s Waterkist Farm, can top out at lengths of up to 40 feet, monstrous horizontal stalks that end up victims of ...