(CNNMoney.com) — Forget the conventional wisdom that says veggies must be grown on vast farms in the Midwest. What if commercial-scale crops took root inside cavernous city warehouses, without sunlight or soil?
Call it urban farming 2.0. Over the past decade, city agriculture has largely been the province of non-profit organizations, school groups, renegade gardeners and […]
Walt Whitman called weeds “plants whose virtues have yet to be discovered.” Lawn owners would surely agree with him. Unfortunately, they often resort to the nearest weapon — chemicals — when common sense, elbow grease, and ingenuity could do the trick.
The nonprofit organization American PIE (Public Information on the Environment) notes that callers to its […]
NEW YORK (MarketWatch) — The clean-sounding catchword “organic” is fueling buzz in perhaps the dirtiest of products: fertilizer.
While organic products represent a tiny share of the $40 billion fertilizer market in the U.S., demand is growing along with that for organic foods and other items. This has prompted several companies, mostly small and regional but […]
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