Future Farm Food and Fuel LLC is a collaboration between Baldwin Dairy and the aquaponic and hydroponic setup used to raise tilapia and grow produce within Future Farm’s 27,000 square foot facility. Methane energy from the 1,100 cow dairy farm’s manure waste creates cheap heat and electricity that powers the gardening system.

Lettuce isn’t exactly the most compelling produce, but the lettuce from PodPonics in Atlanta has a lot of people talking.

This otherworldly type of plant with a vast range of species produces an amazing array of color and texture combinations that make you wonder how they landed on earth. Besides desktop Zen gardens and windowsill companions, succulents often make good ground cover outdoors and some species can grow quite large, given time. If you haven’t ever made friends with a potted succulent and are not quite sure where to start, or just love to read everything you possibly can on the subject because you have hundreds, read on!

This Purcellville, Va. facility produces 4,000 heads of fresh lettuce and other greens a week for sale to area restaurants and farmers markets and is quickly gaining a reputation as the “premier grower of gourmet lettuces and salad greens” in its area.

An entrepreneur in Montreal saw no reason for location or climate to stand in the way of fresh produce being available to the community all year – especially if that produce is grown using hydroponics.

In 2011, the world’s population hit seven billion and as we march on into the new year, the question begs to be asked: where are we going to get our food as the planet fills up with more people and less arable land?