Cultivating Curiosity
Cultivating Curiosity
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Growing beyond the field: What is controlled environment agriculture?
10 minutes Posted Oct 15, 2025 at 3:00 pm.
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What do hoop houses, vertical farms and DIY hydroponic systems all have in common? They are all part of controlled environment agriculture, or CEA — a rapidly growing field that lets farmers, researchers and even home gardeners produce crops year-round by shaping the growing environment. In this episode of Cultivating Curiosity, we sit down with Rhuanito Ferrarezi, associate professor of horticulture in the University of Georgia College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences (CAES),...