On Scott Beylik’s 4-acre farm about 60 miles northwest of Los Angeles, rows of tomato vines climb wires strung from the beams of his greenhouses. There’s no soil, so the roots are submerged in little ...

Theodore Her and Ab Sheng Xiong had a different concept of farming. The juniors at Vincent High School thought farming would be outside in the elements with their hands in the soil. That changed when ...