FLINT, Mich. — On the vacant lot in Michigan where her childhood home once stood, Carolyn Meekins grows seedlings for Asian greens, red kale and green beans in a plastic-covered greenhouse known as a ...

In 2010 I attended a Farm-to-School conference in Detroit, MI. In an effort to save their own lives, in the face of a city whose corruption, illegal activities and consequent bankruptcy destroyed the ...

WHITEHALL, Mich. — In a matter of hours on Tuesday, educators and administrators put up a "hoop" house. A hoop house is a semi-permanent greenhouse designed only to extend the growing season.

Last fall, my husband and I built a small hoop house, which is a plastic-covered greenhouse. Its primary purpose was for growing cold-tolerant vegetable crops through the winter months. Since winters ...

Agricultural hoop houses in a field near Los Alamos. An environmental group has filed a lawsuit challenging whether proper environmental analysis occurred for Santa Barbara County’s recently adopted ...

The future of hoop houses in Elmhurst looked a little brighter Tuesday after a city committee agreed to recommend city law expand to beyond hoop houses to other systems or devices for extending the ...

University of Nevada Cooperative Extension's Herds and Harvest Program offers a "Farming Principles for Growing Vegetables in Hoop Houses" workshop 9 a.m. - 3 p.m., Nov. 19 in Elko, Nev. The class ...

When living in a temperate climate, some gardeners use their creativity in order to extend the growing season as much as possible. I am one of those gardeners. Over the years, I’ve been experimenting ...

On a recent spring day, a 7.5-acre farm in Northampton County became an outdoor classroom for learning how to grow local produce inside a hoop house. A group of 28 experienced, novice and soon-to-be ...

On a cool but sunny day in late March, I parted a plastic curtain, stepped into a hoop house in Swannanoa, and found a flourishing garden. Arugula, Swiss chard, spring beauty, ‘Lollo Rosso’ lettuce, ...