Five Perennial Plants For The Veggie Patch
It’s an exciting time of year when many gardeners are busy flipping through seed catalogs and selecting new fruit and vegetable varieties for the upcoming growing season. Have you considered creating a perennial food garden? Perennial plants are popular because you sow them once and they come back year after year. While maintaining a perennial […]
Growing Hydroponics & Food In Space
April is a professional copywriter for web content and social media who finds the idea of growing fresh food at home fascinating. Orbiting approximately 350 kilometers over the surface of the Earth is the International Space Station (ISS). Since 2002 the ISS has had a greenhouse where plants of all varieties are grown using hydroponics. It is truly amazing to […]
Growing Below Sea Level
Twenty feet below sea level there are greenhouses successfully producing beans, strawberries, basil, and more – at the bottom of Ligurian Sea. Actually, they are more like bubbles that provide an air pocket for indoor farming off the coast of Nilo, Italy. They have no floors! Fish are swimming past the crops on the outside of […]