Peter Richards builds a small high-tunnel greenhouse, and Kim Rucker propagates ferns. This week on The Family Plot: Gardening in the Mid-South, local gardener Peter Richards demonstrates how to build ...

Unheated high tunnels help bedding plants growers reduce energy costs WEST LAFAYETTE, IN/ITHACA, NY – Energy costs account for one of the largest expenses in commercial greenhouse production of annual ...

When planning a growing environment in a unique situation, it’s helpful to have versatile elements. For some time we have been cultivating the Mother Earth News Test Garden which is currently situated ...

Clyde Forbes has been working in vegetable gardens since his family-farm childhood years in York County. These days, the retired middle-school teacher and Cumberland County Master Gardener helps run ...

A recent study by scientists at the University of Florida sheds light on how soil and nutrient management practices significantly influence the productivity and quality of leafy green crops grown in ...

OLNEY, Ore. — Teresa Retzlaff, owner of 46 North Farm, grows crops in high and low tunnels to help tame Oregon’s wild North Coast and that’s boosted her income. The structures — frames covered with ...

SDSU Extension hosted a high tunnel building training May 7-8 and May 14-15 at the SDSU Specialty Crop Research field in Brookings, South Dakota. Workshop partipants constructing a 30-by-96-foot ...

With careful planning and efficient use of space, even a small hobby greenhouse can provide a nice harvest of vegetables or cut flowers. A high-tunnel greenhouse made with hoops and poly covering can ...

A Philadelphia nonprofit is working to prepare the city's orchards for warmer temperatures and the impacts of climate change by using high tunnels – unheated greenhouses that protect plants from ...

In February, many farms are in their annual pause. Winter’s snow is still covering the ground, while freezing and sub-freezing temperatures reign. In regions where this occurs, plants are dormant, and ...