Imagine a garden system you can use indoors or outdoors that not only waters itself, but also takes up only 1 square foot of floor space. Even better is the fact that if your budget is limited, you can build it from inexpensive materials available from your local big box store or super hardware. Plus it is expandable. You can add more units in a stack, rather than spreading out if you don't have the space. What's a SIP Garden? A self irrigating or self watering planter. All you have to do is Read more [...]

Not all forms of vertical gardening are expensive. Sure, if you buy a pre-fabricated system, it probably won't fit a tight budget. This is where necessity is the mother of invention steps in. You could use a bunch of empty pop bottles nailed to a piece of plywood. You could just cram a bunch of cheap dollar store pots on the perimeter of the balcony - but this takes up a lot of space that your lounge chairs should set in. You could use an old pallet. But you also could do a little simple engineering Read more [...]

Wyoming might seem an unlikely place for new ground being broken in vertical farming, but it's home to more than mountains, cowboys, horses and cattle ranches. Fueled by the desire to produce an income as farmers and spend more time with growing families, the guys at Bright AgriTech in Laramie have devised a unique vertical hydroponic growing system. In the zone 4 climate of Wyoming, maximizing the output of a heated greenhouse is beyond important if you're going to be profitable. Partners Nate Read more [...]

Indoor gardening in a small space is getting less of a challenge each day. All it ever takes is a great idea to make things happen or change the way we live. Not too long ago,  Beau and Jared at Enlightened Design came up with this concept for interchangeable wall pots that could hold just about anything and hang anywhere. Something compact and versatile that people would find 101 uses for in their home, apartment, office or dorm. You'll find it as ingenious as we did. Get organized, plant a Read more [...]

That's the question architect, Benjamin Kennedy, set out to answer with his Master's Degree thesis. Before he started looking for a topic, he had never heard of vertical farming. The more Ben thought about it, the more intrigued he became. Was this just a crazy concept, or was it really feasible to feed the entire population of this huge urban center with locally grown food? His research didn't cover just tomatoes, lettuce and fish. He wanted to discover if a full, rich diet of balanced nutrition Read more [...]