There are a few ways to build a hoop house. Possibly the easiest is to place metal stakes into the ground and slide six-foot sections of PVC pipe over the plants, creating an arch effect. Then, simply ...

Nearly two dozen supporters of an Elmhurst family’s long-running effort to get city permission to extend their backyard gardening season with a plastic-covered temporary greenhouse demanded Monday ...

The future of hoop houses in Elmhurst looked a little brighter Tuesday after a city committee agreed to recommend city law expand to beyond hoop houses to other systems or devices for extending the ...

This year’s Brady Scholars chose to support local food networks by building the 20 feet by 36 feet hoop house structure containing 12 full-size planter boxes behind the Institute for Policy Research ...

FLINT, Mich. — On the vacant lot in Michigan where her childhood home once stood, Carolyn Meekins grows seedlings for Asian greens, red kale and green beans in a plastic-covered greenhouse known as a ...

Last fall, my husband and I built a small hoop house, which is a plastic-covered greenhouse. Its primary purpose was for growing cold-tolerant vegetable crops through the winter months. Since winters ...

On a recent spring day, a 7.5-acre farm in Northampton County became an outdoor classroom for learning how to grow local produce inside a hoop house. A group of 28 experienced, novice and soon-to-be ...

University of Nevada Cooperative Extension's Herds and Harvest Program offers a "Farming Principles for Growing Vegetables in Hoop Houses" workshop 9 a.m. - 3 p.m., Nov. 19 in Elko, Nev. The class ...

On a cool but sunny day in late March, I parted a plastic curtain, stepped into a hoop house in Swannanoa, and found a flourishing garden. Arugula, Swiss chard, spring beauty, ‘Lollo Rosso’ lettuce, ...

FLINT, Mich. — On the vacant lot in Michigan where her childhood home once stood, Carolyn Meekins grows seedlings for Asian greens, red kale and green beans in a plastic-covered greenhouse known as a ...