A vote is coming next week for a mammoth complex of hydroponic greenhouses to grow lettuce and salad greens in western Northampton County. BrightFarms of Irvington New York has proposed four ...

Technical know-how in construction and implementation, along with maintenance and energy costs will hold back home ...

A yield of lettuce from the container farm is roughly 50-60 pounds, some of which goes to the school’s cafeteria.

The Red Deer Food Bank has received a $75,000 donation from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, which ...

Chaim Tovia, project manager at H2O Farms, which has a hydroponic ... to aid its grow operation,Tovia said. Tovia said that CO2 enrichment could boost the company’s lettuce yield by 20 percent ...

The hydroponic process uses 80% less water than growing plants in soil, the website says. Any water not taken up by the plants is recaptured and used again, it says.

BrightFarms’ website states its hydroponic growing methods do not use pesticides ... California that spend up to five days on a truck. “Lettuce should be grown to be eaten, not trucked around ...