AYER — The latest addition to the Ayer Shirley High School cafeteria isn’t a tasty new dish, it’s a hydroponic grower with multiple heads of lettuce inside, all earmarked for the school’s lunch menu.

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New research has found cover crops that are viable in Washington's normal "off season" don't hurt the soil and can be sold as ...

There’s a joke in The Departed that you should treat Feds like they’re mushrooms: Feed them excrement, and keep them in the dark. The same sentiment has been expressed towards journalists, which is ...

Corn is a key source of biofuel. Fertilizing it releases a potent greenhouse gas into the air, so the federal government had approved research to grow the crop with less nitrogen. The funding is now ...

Crop Mastery is a way to level up your Grow a Garden plants so you can get useful multipliers to make them even more valuable. This system was added as part of the Fall Update expansion on September ...