Means and Matters • May 2022

Sustainable Groundwater Management Reshapes Farming in California’s Central Valley

This story for Bank of the West's award-winning Means & Matters digs into how water scarcity and California's Sustainable Groundwater Management Act (SGMA) may affect Central Valley farmers in the near, mid and long term.

Produce Grower • February 2022

Onward & upward

B2B cover story for Produce Grower magazine on Brooklyn-based aquaponic bass and greens grower Upward Farms and its plans to build the world's largest vertical farm.

Hemp Grower • December 2021

Hemp Grain: A Powerhouse With Potential

B2B cover story for Hemp Grower magazine, taking a deep dive into the U.S. hemp grain industry, its challenges and its potential. Awarded National and Regional Gold Awards by the 2022 American Society of Business Publication Editors (ASBPE) Awards of Excellence.

Means & Matters • September 2021

6 Ways Sustainable Agriculture Is Changing the Business of Food

Feature for Bank of the West's Webby Award-winning Means & Matters on trends transforming sustainable food and agriculture.

Hemp Grower • June 2021

Small & Mighty

B2B COVER STORY - At Tulip Tree Gardens, branded hemp, heirloom vegetables, and regenerative agriculture now coexist where sharecropped corn and soybean fields once grew.

Produce Grower • February 2021

Green & Growing

B2B COVER STORY - Time spent talking with Schuyler Greens Company founder and farm manager John McMahon reveals the dream that drives this controlled-environment agriculture (CEA) farm.

Produce Grower • March 2020

Big-Picture Packaging

B2B COVER STORY - Fresh produce packaging has come a long way since the days when wooden crates met the industry’s needs. Options that worked when a retailer’s biggest concern was controlling heads of iceberg lettuce fall short in the face of modern consumer expectations and needs.

Produce Grower • August 2019

Myco-Magic: Specialty Mushrooms

B2B COVER STORY- These favored fungi aren’t your standard white buttons. These are specialty mushrooms, also known as exotics, with shapes, colors, tastes and textures that spur culinary minds and palates to new heights.

Produce Grower • October 2019

Culinary Connection

B2B COVER STORY - From the street, the old strip mall in Arlington, Virginia, gives few clues that something fresh is going on inside. But around back and tucked underneath, the city’s only urban farm has hydroponic agriculture going full swing.

Hemp Grower • September 2020

Building Strong Roots

Growers new to container production eventually learn that all pots aren’t created equal. It’s a lesson producers of mainstream container-grown horticultural crops have long known—and that progressive container companies continue to prove.

Produce Grower • June 2020

Rapid Growth, Rapid Change

B2B COVER STORY - According to culinary legend, San Francisco-area chefs were using what are now called “microgreens” as far back as the 1980s. While no one is sure what they were called back then, one thing is certain: Their popularity grew.

Behind the Scenes • November 2020

Pioneering Surfactant Research

Previous surfactant research focused on soil-water relations and how wetting agents improve water distribution and retention in soil. This collaborative effort shifts the emphasis to how wetting agents modify plant physiology.

Hemp Grower • March 2020

Is Greenhouse Hemp for You?

Advances in controlled environment agriculture (CEA) have changed the way the world grows food. It’s only natural that CEA greenhouse technologies are changing the way some farmers grow hemp, too.

Produce Grower • February 2020

Organic Market Momentum

Many people within and outside of the produce industry have questioned whether “organic” could ever win consumer hearts. While the industry hasn’t hit organic domination, prevailing winds are blowing in that direction.

Greenhouse Management • February 2017

Edible Flowers Are on the Rise

Edible flowers have moved from the plate edge into the midst of culinary creations, contributing flavors and scents as integral as those of herbs or vegetables — and growers are taking note.

Cannabis Business Times • November 2020

Light Intensity Benefits and Boundaries

As lighting research and technologies advance, the cannabis industry seeks an increased understanding of how light and cannabis interact. Light intensity is a crucial factor in that quest.

Produce Grower • March 2019

Upstate Efficiency

B2B COVER STORY - When Wheatfield Gardens CEO Paal Elfstrum and an investor team purchased their Wheatfield, New York, property in March 2015, the 1.6-acre greenhouse that now houses hydroponic lettuce production looked very different than it does today.

Garden Center Magazine • April 2016

A Native Super-Edible on the Rise

Health-conscious Americans have helped spur worldwide interest in berries and other foods that yield health and medicinal benefits. Known as nutraceuticals for their marriage of nutrition with pharmaceutical-like benefits, these super-edibles pack a powerful commercial punch.