After Zach Yohannes’ initial frenzied weeks of constructing and setting up Gro-Mart, accompanied by a series of problems that needed solving and were solved, a sort of routine has emerged. Zach is prototyping indoor, vertical agriculture in an old packing shed on his family’s farm, trying to determine what works [...]

This time, we’re checking in on the recent day-by-day progress of Zach Yohannes’ Gro-Mart prototype.  Gro-Mart is a “ revolutionary sustainable food production model that produces a poly-culture of crops utilizing advanced soilless growing methods. It will consist of a system of multi-story buildings that serve as both the growing [...]

Early on the morning of June 18th  before the heat had set in, Zach Yohannes arrived at the old cold storage facility on his family’s farm near Visalia, California.  This large building once stored and refrigerated produce, but since the farm has moved its packing elsewhere and it has been [...]

This is the most recent article from Holly’s column, “Seeing Green.” You can find the original post in The Stanford Daily. CHERRY HILL, NJ — Standing next to my Dad under the watchful eyes of the sculpted Jesus I remembered well from childhood church services, I resolutely censored a mental [...]

You walk into Longs Drugs to replenish your supply of body wash soap. You head toward the “Personal Care” aisle and grab a brightly colored bottle of Raspberry Sorbet Scrub. A curious customer, you read the label and see this: Besides water, you recognize none of these chemicals, but shrug and [...]

My name is Steven, and I’ve spent three years living in campus co-ops. Like many of you, I’m rather flummoxed in the kitchen sometimes.  I’m standing there with an item in my hand, and I just don’t know the best way to get rid of it.  We all want to [...]