Agriculture

Honey bees rely heavily on their sense of smell for foraging, navigation, and communication within the hive. Pesticides and adjuvants can disrupt these critical functions,…

Intensive agriculture is a modern farming method that tries to increase agricultural production and yield from a given plot of land while using as little…

The science and study of cultivating plants in an urban environment is known as urban horticulture. It is the activity of growing and producing plants…

Forest gardening is a low-maintenance, sustainable plant-based food production and agroforestry system based on woodland ecosystems, integrating fruit and nut trees, bushes, herbs, vines, and…

Building-integrated agriculture (BIA) is the practice of situating high-performance hydroponic greenhouse farming systems on and within mixed-use buildings in order to capitalize on synergies between…

Regenerative agriculture focuses on restoring soil health that has been harmed by the use of heavy machinery, fertilizers, and pesticides in intensive farming. It is…

Aquaponics is a food production system that combines aquaculture (raising aquatic creatures such as fish, crayfish, snails, or prawns in tanks) and hydroponics (growing plants…

Hydroponics is a subset of hydroculture that involves growing plants, typically agricultural or medicinal plants, without soil using water-based mineral fertilizer solutions. It is a…

Biodynamic agriculture is a type of alternative agriculture founded on pseudo-scientific and esoteric principles first proposed by Rudolf Steiner (1861-1925) in 1924. It is a…

Switching from dangerous to useful fungi necessitates an awareness of the many species of fungi, their roles, and how to promote beneficial fungi while limiting…