In the past decade greenhouses have become as very hot home improvement product and project. As the baby boomer generation slips into retirement they are looking for ways to keep busy, physically ...

Plush Moon Terrarium Co in Knoxville has a DIY bar where customers pick out glassware and fill the habitat with soil, plants ...

For those of us who aren’t blessed with a green thumb and who are perhaps a bit forgetful, plants can be surprisingly difficult to keep alive. In those cases, some kind of automation, such as ...

China is a large agricultural country with the largest population in the world. This creates a high demand for food, which is prompting the study of high quality and high-yielding crops. China's ...

Local News Stinky 'corpse flower' in bloom at IU greenhouse "Wally" an Amorphophallus titanium, or "corpse flower," is starting to bloom at the Indiana University Bloomington Biology Building ...

Why Terrariums Are Coming Back Building a tiny plant kingdom holds a calming allure in a chaotic world.

In this paper, we propose a stochastic multi-timescale energy management scheme of greenhouses with renewable energy sources (RES), including a photovoltaic (PV) system, combined heat and power (CHP) ...

Geothermal can provide year-round, carbon free heat for greenhouses. The communities of Port Hope Simpson, Cartwright and Black Tickle are hoping government-funded studies show they have the needed ...

The high-tech greenhouse is expected to be just the beginning of a much larger plan. The team hopes to eventually expand this model across 205,000 square feet of growing space, which is nearly four ...