Winner of the Operational Excellence category in the 2nd annual CEAs—Cultivating Excellence Awards, at Indoor Ag-Con earlier this year, lettuce grower BrightFarms has been flexible in its strategy and bold in its builds. We paid a visit to their newest location in Macon, Georgia, plus spoke with EVP of Operations Eric Dobbins to learn how Macon fits BrightFarms’ strategy, the challenge of growing lettuce in the Deep South, and what the future holds.

Seasonal and ethnic specialty crops offer controlled environment leafy greens growers an opportunity to expand their product mix and customer base.

New and evolving technologies help greenhouse lettuce growers lower costs, improve crop uniformity and scale production more efficiently than ever before.

Downy mildew can impact greenhouse-grown basil plants, as well as field grown, so we continue to report field trials on new DM-resistant cultivars to highlight top performers.

In the second of a four-part series on controlled environment strawberry research at Michigan State University, we investigate how low-intensity night interruption lighting can replace conventional day extension lighting in everbearing strawberry production while maintaining or even improving yield.

Jiffy Group’s new Jiffy Gel substrate won this year’s Product Innovation Award at the 2026 Indoor Ag-Con in Las Vegas, so I sat down with Kyle Freedman to find out why it’s so unique and what the benefits might be for growers considering incorporating it into their growing regime.

Practical solutions for managing insect and mite pests on indoor herbs.