The University of Idaho extension hosted the South Idaho Garden Symposium which featured a mix of scientists, master gardeners and business owners discussing topics from infection in plants to soils.

It's organized by the Magic Valley and Mini-Cassia Master Gardener Association and the program featured presentations on ideas circulating around the concept of going green in the garden.

Windsor’s Greenhouses and Nursery Owner Ryan Muchow said, "People don't garden to just be busy. We want harvest, we want produce, we want the benefits of the fruits of our labor. They like to do it in the least harmful way to the environment."

'Going green' seems like a concept that really got attention in the last few years - but local business owner Ryan Muchow says it's not a new idea.

Muchow said, "People weren't using Round-up in the 1889 so they were classified as organic, but what changed that were crop yields, people who wanted higher crop yields."

He says what really changed in the gardening world was the fact that science evolved how things were done to bring people those higher crop yields.

"Now that people are wanting to go organic for the goodness of their family, the health of the environmental impacts, that's where modern science has really helped in making this a new way of doing it, in keeping the yields high and help with how successful they were in doing it."