Growing Methods

There are many different ways to successfully grow your own; explore different options and choose what’s right for you with our complete guides.

Hydroponic Help: Government Grants For Farmers Making The Switch

Catherine Sherriffs

We love hearing from our readers, and just recently, we got a great question about what kind of government support there is for people looking to start farming with hydroponics. This is such a timely topic! The world’s population is currently at 7.6 billion people, and it’s projected to hit 9.7 billion by the year…

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New To Hydroponic Gardening? What Beginners Need to Know

Hydroponics is a technique used to grow plants in a nutrient-rich, water-based solution. There is no soil involved; instead, the root systems of the plants are supported in inert mediums like vermiculite, moss, perlite, peat, Rockwool or clay pellets. The basic idea behind starting a hydroponic garden is to allow the roots of a plant…
April 9, 2018
Michelle Whyte

The Many Advantages To Freight Container Farming

It wasn’t too long ago when freight container farming captured the world’s attention. It was more of an upcycling concept, and if memory serves correctly, first came to life in Scandinavia in 2012. The following year, Kate Hoffman brought the style to London with aquaponics in the box and a greenhouse on the roof. Her…
April 4, 2018
Amber

Science Discovers Wheat Crops Grow Faster Under LED Lights

It may sound crazy, but it’ll actually cut your harvest time in half! Crop scientists have recently discovered they can produce wheat faster by raising the grain under LED grow lights. It’s a timely discovery, with increasing global pressure to grow staple crops in a speedy manner. Such a method is essential to feed future…
April 2, 2018
Tammy Clayton

A Peek at Clif Bar’s Corporate Garden

“All the food grown in our garden is organic—a perfect match for our company café, which features fresh-prepared organic meals made with ingredients sourced from regional farms. The organic garden also aligns with who we are as a company. Three-fourths of all the ingredients we use in Clif Bar foods are organic—and we continue to strive to increase that percentage.…
January 31, 2018
Tammy Clayton

The Cost-Efficient Geothermal Greenhouse

In a bitterly cold climate, a geothermal greenhouse is the only cost-effective way to grow food all winter long. Most people use water circulation kept warm far below the surface to heat a structure, but there’s a little known method that uses only air. One that University of Nebraska scientists said would never work back…
January 29, 2018
Callie