Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Nov. 25—LYONS FALLS — Hidden away in the back of a Center Street parking lot, by a steep bank that falls into the Black River, is ...

As more consumers seek out sustainably produced food options, a new partnership announced today is taking a critical step in that direction by adopting cleaner energy practices that will affect the ...

Ten-year-old Freight Farms is all about sustainable agriculture. The Boston-based agricultural technology company sells 320-sq.-ft. containers allowing for indoor hydroponic vertical farming.

Freight Farms’ design was the first containerized vertical growing environment using hydroponic technology. It was initially funded by a Kickstarter campaign in 2012, where they raised the funds to ...

HOLYOKE — Ernesto Hernandez Martin graduated Thursday from the Freight Farms Hydroponic Growing apprenticeship program at Holyoke Community College, having learned how to grow lettuce in the ...

The lettuce is tasting fresher at RIT’s main campus since the university installed a hydroponic farm-in-a-box behind the Student Alumni Union. Made from an upcycled freight container, the new RIT ...

From the outside, one would think the Gainer family has a train car in their front yard. Inside the small structure, it looks and feels like the set of a sci-fi film. Jessica Gainer, 34, uses ...

In 2010, entrepreneurs Brad McNamara and Jon Friedman planted the seeds intended to boost “urban agriculture” to become a more viable and competitive alternative in the food industry. They put ‘We’ ...

Nov. 25—LYONS FALLS — Hidden away in the back of a Center Street parking lot, by a steep bank that falls into the Black River, is a 40-by-8-by-10-foot white metal box that looks like a standard ...