Damary Onditi, a farmer in Migori County samples her produce of tomatoes Greenhouse tomatoes have high demand due to good health seen by skin color and succulence. [Stanley Ongwae/Standard] Greenhouse ...

Like most young hustlers, Darius Cheruiyot of Silibwet, Bomet County has tried his hand in almost everything, from being a mechanic to a driver and a boda boda man. But none of those ventures given ...

WASHINGTON — If you head down to the Dupont FRESHFARM farmers market on Sunday morning, you may notice something odd in the bins of locally grown fruits and vegetables. Many are overflowing with ripe ...

EXETER – Three years after portions of its gargantuan, 25-acre metal skeleton first rose over a local farm field, construction of the Schartner greenhouse project has yet to resume as the company ...

EXETER — Tim Schartner walks a field his family has worked for a century, part of the landmark farm that served as a gateway into South County’s bucolic region for generations of Rhode Islanders ...

AN icy mixture of rain and sleet fell on the glass roof of Greenhouse Two at Backyard Farms here, but as its big blue door slid open and the warm, green, celery smell of tomato plants wafted out, it ...

The planned facility will have about 30 acres under glass initially with the option to expand to 60 acres in the future, Houweling said. Currently, plans call for a mix of about one-third cucumbers ...

photos by ADAM LAU/NEWS SENTINEL Anthony Carver, Grainger County agricultural extension agent, admires ripe tomatoes at Morgan Farms in Rutledge, Tenn. (Photo: Adam Lau) April and Betty Morgan, from ...

EXETER – The mammoth — and dormant — 25-acre greenhouse project off Route 2 could sprout to life again this year. Town Zoning Inspector Hal Morgan this week lifted his October 2021 cease-and-desist ...

One of the curses of living in northern latitudes afflicts Chicagoans every fall: How can you buy fresh produce when the fields are frozen? The answer, for a growing number of farmers, is to bring the ...