Garden Center Magazine • August 2025

Rare Life Plants brand celebrates and supports conservation of unique and rare plants

Rare Life Plants, a remarkable partnership between Must Have Perennials and Juniper Level Botanic Garden, aims to make select plants from the JLBG collections available to the horticulture industry at scale for the first time and help preserve JLBG and ensure its future.

Pennington Gardening • September 2025

How to Choose Clovers for Your Lawn and Yard

When your yard dreams extend beyond traditional turfgrass, clovers offer options too good to ignore. Sustainability? Check. Biodiversity? Check. Less maintenance, water conservation, less fertilizer and pest control? Clovers can help you achieve all these goals and more.

Greenhouse Management • September 2023

Leveraging tradition, innovation & intention

B2B Cover Story - Westerlay Orchids' Toine Overgaag augments the business's heritage with technology, sustainability and deliberate goals.

Oasis Grower Solutions • December 2024

Grow Sustainably with OASIS® SOAX® Wetting Agents

Wetting agents work by reducing the surface tension of water. What does that mean for a grower? Put simply, instead of water molecules sticking together, channeling down the side of containers and creating runoff, water can penetrate and spread through your substrate easily and evenly.

Oasis Grower Solutions • May 2024

Cultivating a Greener Floriculture Industry

Learn more about Sustainabloom, a collaborative initiative established by the American Floral Endowment (AFE), the floriculture industry’s leading charitable organization.

Oasis Grower Solutions • March 2024

Sustainability and Engineered Foam Substrates

One of the most common questions asked about our engineered foam growing media relates to sustainability. This closer look at engineered media reveals an environmentally sound choice in propagation and production substrates.

Greenhouse Management • November 2023

Native plant niche

For lucky visitors who time it right, Madison County holds surprises: field after field of native prairie grass and wildflower seed production, bursting with breathtaking color and blooms. Allendan Seed Company, the force behind the beauty, has grown from humble beginnings into one of the nation’s largest producers of native prairie seed.

Moleaer • August 2023

Unlocking the Power and Wonder of Nanobubbles

Just twenty years ago, nanobubble science was virtually nonexistent. Technologies to generate these nano-sized wonders — 2,500 times smaller than a grain of salt — were still far away, as were practical, impactful applications. Now a 10-person Research and Development (R&D) team at Moleaer is focused on advancing nanobubble science along with sales.

CEA inSight • July 2023

What’s next for Sweden’s Ljusgårda and its Life Cycle Assessment?

When Swedish vertical farming company Ljusgårda set out to develop a sustainability plan, the company took an uncommon step: It pursued a comprehensive, research-based Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) based on actual key performance indicators (KPIs) from its commercial vertical farm.

Pennington Seed • September 2025

Why a Cover Crop Is Good for Your Garden

Cover crops are an easy, eco-friendly way to improve your garden soil over the winter months, so it’s rich and ready for spring planting.

Pennington Gardening • July 2023

How to Design and Plant Water-Conscious Gardens

Having your own yard and garden is satisfying for a lot of reasons. But one of our favorites is being able to call the shots and control your impact on the environment. Regardless of your yard or garden size, your choices can help leave the Earth better off than it was before you came along. Water-conscious gardening is one way to make a difference — whether you live where water is plentiful or where drought and gardening go hand in hand.

Pennington Gardening • June 2023

How to Grow Your Own Wildflower Meadow

For some people, thoughts of wildflower meadows evoke rolling hills covered with blooms. There's nothing wrong with that, but who said meadows have to be huge? Regardless of your yard's size — from spacious to cozy — you can enjoy your own wildflower meadow and boost biodiversity in your neighborhood. That meadow garden that only you can imagine? It's yours. Get ready for swaying wildflowers and pollinators galore.

Pennington Gardening • May 2023

How to Nurture Your Soil with Regenerative Gardening

If you chat with growers on your farmers market treks, you've probably heard a lot about regenerative agriculture — a way of growing that focuses on nurturing and restoring soil. For local-food growers focused on organic and natural farming, soil health is key to their success. But you may not know that their soil-regenerating approach can yield the same amazing benefits in your yard and garden.

Pennington Gardening • April 2023

Sustainable Lawn Alternatives

Ready to abandon the clean, green square and create a yard that celebrates your unique point of view? Nothing against turfgrass, conventional lawns and the people who love them. Healthy grass is beautiful, but your world is about options. There are other, even more sustainable ways to work with Mother Nature, conserve resources and have an amazing yard.

Pennington.com • September 2025

All About Jays and How to Attract Them

When most North American bird lovers think of jays, the common Blue Jay is the first wild bird that comes to mind. But North America is home to at least 10 species of jays, with about four times that number worldwide. Though only one species is called Blue Jay, most (but not all) North American jays sport feathers with varied hues of brilliant blues. With color as a starting clue, jays are a great group of wild birds to build your bird ID skills. Across the board, jays are known as one of the m...

Produce Grower • April 2023

Sustainable Aspirations

B2B cover story. For growers and packers who strive for sustainability, the decisions surrounding sustainable packaging are complex — from trends in materials and marketing to food safety, shelf life and plain old economics.

Bank of the West: Means & Matters • October 2022

Washington Dairy Farmer Aims to Go Carbon Negative

This agribusiness profile for Bank of the West's award-winning Means & Matters magazine highlights a Washington entrepreneur and farmer who's laser-focused on sustainability and carbon-negative goals.

Produce Grower • August 2022

Moving forward in Alberta

Despite a global pandemic, Big Marble Farms has more than doubled its production area and nearly doubled its employee count. The company has also launched a sustainability initiative focused on “The” Big Marble — planet Earth — from which it takes its name.

Bank of the West: Means & 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.