California-based company Click & Grow makes urban farming easy for even the least savvy green thumbs. Their electronic smart pots monitor plants and use a proprietary growth medium that eliminates ...

Old MacDonald had a farm, and you can, too — without buying up lots of land. If your gardening ambitions can’t be contained by window planters, but a full-on farm doesn’t fit your lifestyle, there’s a ...

CHICAGO (CBS) -- Sitting on land owned by Good Shepherd Hospital in Barrington is a place called Smart Farm. It's a place drivers can pass and not even know it's there. Smart Farm is an all volunteer ...

The units can grow salad greens, tomatoes, chili peppers, herbs, and eggplant. And they require little work from you and your brown thumb. Growing food indoors usually happens at a small scale: If you ...

Almonds got the brunt of the bad press, but they hardly deserve all the blame for California’s water woes. Sure, it’s worth considering how to minimize your water footprint, and forgoing your daily ...

How do you grow food on a small boat in the middle of the Pacific Ocean? It's a question Miriam Payne and Jess Rowe found themselves asking when preparing to row non-stop from South America to ...

Over the years, the Smart Farm of Barrington has been a green place for producing and donating organic food, as well as an educational center where people learn about cooking and growing healthy food.

These luscious leafy greens sprout from stackable trays in a confined room - without the need of a single drop of pesticide, natural sunlight or soil. In what could be the future of agriculture in ...