Growers investing in the organic food movement could serve a growing new area with vegetable transplants and starts, […]
Project PrintGREEN is turning 3D printers into on-demand gardeners after designing a “green” 3D printer in 2013. The printer produces living prints, printing customized objects in a variety of sizes and forms. The project was created at the University of Maribor in Slovenia, with a goal to unite art, technology, and nature, creatively producing living designs with the help of technology.
A new organization for women in horticulture plans to take on some of the industry’s toughest marketing challenges by promoting the use of flowers and plants in everyday living.
My love for horticulture goes back to my grandparents who were farmers in upstate New York. My family’s […]
Business profitability and health is about more than just sales. Growers can get in trouble when they don’t look at the complete picture when it comes to cost accounting. Susie Raker Zimmerman shares how the team at C. Raker & Sons keeps costs and profits in check.
When Susan McCoy, owner of Garden Media Group, started promoting roses and shrubs for The Conard-Pyle Co. (Star Roses and Plants), she knew the horticulture industry was the right place for her. What she didn’t know was how much the journey would reshape her business for the better. Now, she encourages women in horticulture to invite others to be a part of the industry.
A former industrial site in the Ironbound community of Newark, N.J., will be redeveloped into the world’s largest […]
For the first time last month, guests at The Flower Fields in Carlsbad, Calif. were treated to a […]
There is a little more than a week left in Crown Bees’ Indiegogo fund-raising venture designed to give garden […]
Click & Grow helps make it simple for consumers to grow their own herbs and spices at home, even if they have little experience with plants.
The local FFA students who entertained TPIE attendees in 2014 and 2015 received industry donations of plants and a greenhouse structure to help expand their horticultural program.
The industry is very good at talking about what we do and how we do it, but has almost completely lost touch with talking about why this work is important. As an industry, we need to promote our professions as vital to healthier living.
Here is how Today’s Garden Center’s 10% Project is trying to make that happen through research, marketing and real world testing.