The future of farming is now and it is in the dark: A portable garden vending machine, called the Chef's Farm, offers a harvest of up to 60 heads of lettuce a day, without a ray of sunlight.
A free talk on aquaponics tonight, Valentine's Day, in New York with Philson Warner (above), future workshops, and the plan to turn a mall in Cleveland, Ohio into a hydroponic farm.
It takes a village to grow a picture in a rice field: Since 1993, a small Japanese village has been creating rice paddy art, in an effort to increase tourism. It's a hybrid of traditional illustration and crop circles, with canvases that are as large as football fields.
