High costs and labor needs limit growth, but greenhouses could shape the future of farming.

When Scott Beylik’s grandfather started the now four-acre Beylik Family Farms in Fillmore in the 1970s, it was a radical idea to grow tomatoes indoors without soil. Back then, they were pioneers of ...

Photos show secrets behind the Netherlands' success as the world's second-largest agricultural exporter, focusing on ...

I will not abide people trying to give me recipes for green tomato chutney. Do not say it. I cannot tolerate it. Alas, if your tomato plants look anything like mine at this time of year, you can ...

There are so many plants in the world, coming in all shapes, sizes, and colors. Depending on where you live, though, sometimes it feels like you are very limited as to what you can and can't plant.

EXETER – Three years after portions of its gargantuan, 25-acre metal skeleton first rose over a local farm field, construction of the Schartner greenhouse project has yet to resume as the company ...

Researchers including those from the University of Tokyo have successfully grown large tomatoes and cherry tomatoes, both rich in nutrients, in ...

Gus and Mary Picardo have been eating their own homegrown lettuce since February. By mid-March, they had tomatoes growing on more than four dozen healthy plants. Their fig trees were bearing fruit ...

EXETER — Tim Schartner walks a field his family has worked for a century, part of the landmark farm that served as a gateway into South County’s bucolic region for generations of Rhode Islanders ...

Like many a Seattle-area gardener, when Marcia Dillon first tried growing tomatoes here, she was shocked by how hard it was. “When I first moved here, it was quite humbling,” she says. “Back in Ohio, ...

For the Midwesterner who likes to eat local, this time of year is a challenge. Browse the produce shelves in middle America — or any place where snow falls in winter — and you'll find carrots from ...

Learn how to use walls of water for tomatoes while living in a cold climate with a short gardening season to grow tomatoes without a greenhouse. As the majority of gardeners in America are planting ...