About Electroculture Gardening

Who we are

The site is written and maintained by the Electroculture Gardening editors, a small team that also runs Thrive Garden, a store that sells copper garden antennas. We don't publish author profiles; every page is a team effort and carries the same byline. The aim is a single place where the whole story sits together: the 18th-century experiments, the government field trials of the early 20th century, the modern physics and the newest peer-reviewed studies, told plainly and without hype.

How we research the pages

Every page starts from primary documents rather than summaries of summaries. The history pages follow the original books and bulletins, such as Hull's Electro-Horticulture (1898), Allen's Electricity in Agriculture (1922), USDA Department Bulletin 1379 (1926), Christofleau's English-language booklet (about 1927) and Iowa Research Bulletin 210 (1937). The science pages follow peer-reviewed papers, such as the 2025 PLoS One container trial and Dufour's 2026 papers in Comptes Rendus Mécanique. Figures carry their document and page, quotes are checked against the scans, and dates and links were checked in October 2026. When two documents disagree, the page says so instead of picking the more exciting number.

How we report evidence

The editorial rules are short. No page claims that antennas, coils, rods or magnets have been shown to raise yields, repel pests or replace fertilizer, because no controlled study has shown that. Every efficacy statement carries one of four evidence labels: Controlled, peer-reviewed; Controlled government or station trial; Historical report; or Promotional claim or anecdote. Physics models and literature reviews, which test no crops themselves, are labelled Peer-reviewed review/model. Claims from old booklets and from store listings are attributed to whoever made them. Negative results get the same space as positive ones. We don't invent people, garden trials, reader results or statistics, and we leave out health claims.

If you want to see the evidence first, read Does Electroculture Work?, and if you want to try antennas yourself, the side-by-side testing guide shows how to do it fairly. Everything else is listed on the guides page.

Links to Thrive Garden

A few antenna pages link to products in the Thrive Garden electroculture collection (a store we own). The store is owned by the same team as this site, and every store link and button is marked as such. Three product pages also show a video from the store's YouTube channel, captioned as coming from a store owned by the same team, with the claims in it being the store's own. Other pages show videos from outside channels, captioned as outside videos whose views are the creator's own; we skip channels that sell electroculture devices. Store descriptions are reported as the store's own claims, not as evidence. The full arrangement is set out in the ownership disclosure.