Where the Mower Sound Is a Moo: Inside Silicon Ranch’s Christiana Solar Ranch
On a November morning in Christiana, Tennessee, the lawn mowers at a Middle Tennessee solar field make almost no sound […]
In the Field
Instrumented farmland and greenhouses: sensors, geothermal heat, aquaponics and agricultural robotics, read through the same efficiency lens.
The Shrimp Farm That Waters Its Own Greenhouse: Inside Agriloops’ First Saltwater Aquaponics Plant
Agriloops opened Mangrove #1 near Rennes in 2025: a shrimp pool feeding a greenhouse next door, its water reused as fertilizer, heated on local wood. France’s first saltwater aquaponics plant at commercial scale.
Four Liters of Water, One Kilogram of Tomatoes: Inside a Dutch Greenhouse Pollinated by 800 Bees
Looye Kwekers’s greenhouse in Burgerveen turns four liters of water into a kilogram of tomatoes, with 800 bumblebees per box doing the pollinating and a closed water loop doing the rest.
VD Holland: Why a Dutch Pepper Grower Drilled for Geothermal Heat Instead of Burning Gas
When gas prices spiked after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Dutch pepper grower VD Holland and neighbouring growers drilled a geothermal well and cut their gas consumption in half.