CHICAGO (CBS) -- Sitting on land owned by Good Shepherd Hospital in Barrington is a place called Smart Farm. It's a place drivers can pass and not even know it's there. Smart Farm is an all volunteer ...

Over the years, the Smart Farm of Barrington has been a green place for producing and donating organic food, as well as an educational center where people learn about cooking and growing healthy food.

Artificial intelligence and machine learning play an increasingly important role. Algorithms trained on large datasets are ...

Old MacDonald had a farm, and you can, too — without buying up lots of land. If your gardening ambitions can’t be contained by window planters, but a full-on farm doesn’t fit your lifestyle, there’s a ...

Almonds got the brunt of the bad press, but they hardly deserve all the blame for California’s water woes. Sure, it’s worth considering how to minimize your water footprint, and forgoing your daily ...

The units can grow salad greens, tomatoes, chili peppers, herbs, and eggplant. And they require little work from you and your brown thumb. Growing food indoors usually happens at a small scale: If you ...

A Chinese man who can move only one finger and one toe has shown how determination and learning can change lives. Despite being paralysed and dependent on a ventilator, he built a smart farm control ...