As well as the hydroponic strawberries, Eldred said Strawberry Fields also grows tomatoes, lettuce, peppers and a variety of herbs that it plans to hook into a similar hydroponic irrigation system as ...

Most people have a garden story that ends the same way: the slugs won, or the heat hit early, or the soil just never seemed right. Hydroponics removes all of those excuses from the equation entirely.

Doug and Linda Eldred from the Skaneateles area, farming over 1400 acres. After much research about hydroponic growing, we decided to open Strawberry Fields U-Pick Hydroponic Farm in July of 2009. We ...

A few juicy red strawberries hang among the green fruit on plants at Brook Hollow Farm. The family business, off Silver Star Road east of Ocoee, normally has up to 400 pounds per week of hydroponic ...

Francis Wisniewski didn’t know he would start a farm when he bought property in Fort Atkinson six years ago. “I didn’t mean to be a farmer. I’m from Chicago and I was trying to get away,” says ...

In a strawberry field surrounded by strawberry fields on the outskirts of Santa Maria, a team of robots have been picking berries all summer. Each robot, made by a Colorado company called Tortuga ...

A team of UA researchers is trying to bring strawberry production to Arizona. Chieri Kubota, a professor in the School of Plant Sciences, and her team are experimenting with greenhouse produce-growing ...

Harold Hackman plucks a perfectly heart-shaped strawberry and hands it to his guest. It’s tart but juicy. Another sample reveals a flavor with less tartness although not quite sweet. Hackman and his ...

A fresh strawberry, picked ripe off the vine, is a gift. My grandma taught me this many Junes ago at u-pick strawberry fields in the north woods. Years later, while finishing my English degree at the ...