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 [...]

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 [...]

In case you missed it, this article was originally published on October 21st.  – – – Dumpster diving has never been my cup of tea. But when it comes to science, it turns out that you can convince me to tackle all sorts of less-than-glamorous tasks, including creeping around the [...]

To wrap up the quarter (and year!) we’ll be posting some of Holly Moeller’s columns from the past couple of months. This one was originally published on September 30th. – – – I’ve made a lot of cross-country flights in the last few weeks, the most recent taking me home [...]

If you’d asked me four years ago what an environmentalist’s job is, I would have been quick to tell you that their main responsibility is preserving nature. Environmentalists are charged with the noble task of keeping the Sierra Nevada, the Amazon rainforest, and countless other natural landforms in the world, [...]

Outside of the office building where I have spent my summer internship, there is a painted utility box, as can be found in countless neighborhoods undergoing revitalization efforts. This one caught my eye, though, because instead of a generic sunrise, flower motif, or abstract pattern, this painting taught me something. [...]