AYER — The latest addition to the Ayer Shirley High School cafeteria isn’t a tasty new dish, it’s a hydroponic grower with multiple heads of lettuce inside, all earmarked for the school’s lunch menu.

Key Points Vertical gardens save space and are particularly handy for urban dwellers.Vining plants and many vegetables, herbs, and flowers can be grown on trellises and shelves.Growing vertically ...

Wander through the labyrinthine tunnels twenty feet beneath downtown Houston, and the past practically oozes from the walls. Office workers walk over pink-and-green speckled tiles. Steve Winwood’s ...

Kansas State University horticulture expert Cynthia Domenghini says home gardeners can expand garden space by taking it to the next level…literally. Domenghini said many crops can be grown vertically, ...

Gone are the days when people only grew potatoes in large beds – the trend of growing food vertically is becoming more and more common, which is brilliant for people with limited outside space.

Production technician Amanda Martinez, plants basils as she works in vertical farm green house at Eden Green Technology, on Thursday, March 6, 2025, in Cleburne. Shafkat Anowar / Staff Photographer ...

As we move deeper into 2026, the space-saving gardening method is set to transform how we think about gardens, especially in urban settings. By utilizing vertical structures, containers, and strategic ...

Researchers believe solar farms and agricultural farms can be one and the same, thanks to a pilot project that highlights a unique solar panel setup. The innovation, tested by a research team from ...

A new Danish study shows that bifacial, vertical solar panels in agricultural fields can generate clean electricity without reducing crop yields. And they are better received by the public than ...

Research at three Canadian locations tried to identify which crops can grow between differently spaced rows of vertical agrivoltaic systems. The scientists concluded that all traditional corps could ...

CLEBURNE — Walls of carefully spaced herb and lettuce plants rise to the ceiling of a massive greenhouse. Inside Eden Green Technology’s 62,000-square-foot vertical greenhouse, over 340,000 plants are ...