As supermarket produce prices and instances of food recalls rise, interest in at-home gardening systems has also increased. Hydroponic growing systems don’t require soil and take up minimal room ...

Everyone is familiar with soil: it is one of the most important components of growing, it provides a foothold for plant roots, maintains the necessary nutrients plants need to grow, and filters ...

Growing food indoors presents some challenges, but there are advantages. Microgreens or sprouts can be grown in compact trays ...

In my field extension work, I have noticed an interesting trend — hydroponic Dutch buckets (Bato bucket systems) are transforming the horticulture industry. Invented in Holland, I have come across ...

Have you ever pulled a store-bought bag of lettuce from the fridge only to find it wilted and long past its prime? Haven’t we all! It’s wasteful and expensive and I decided something needed to change.

To start, we need to have a simple understanding of what hydroponic cultivation is all about. In short, hydroponics, or water culture, is the soilless growth of plants. Often times the plants’ root ...

Food and where it comes from has always been a life thread for Hank Kim. Back in his homeland of South Korea, Kim’s grandfather was a farmer. Kim followed his brother to the United States for college.

DRACUT — James Pelletier says he’d cry if he ever came home to find his tomato plants wilted. “The biggest fear every hydroponic gardener has is a power failure,” he says. The Dracut orthodontist ...

While there are some who profess that hydroponic gardening is the future of farming, if you want to see what it’s all about, you don’t need to wait for the future to arrive. In-home hydroponic ...