The Land Greenhouses (Living with the Land), EPCOT

The Land pavilion opened on 1 October 1982 with EPCOT. Its attraction, then called Listen to the Land, combined a dark ride and a greenhouse tour from the start, according to Wikipedia. A refurbishment begun on 27 September 1993 led to the reopening, on 10 December 1993, of an attraction renamed Living with the Land; a second round of works took place in 2004-2005, and in 2021 the attraction moved from the Future World area to World Nature. Successive sponsors were Kraft (1982-1992), Nestlé (1993-2009) and, for the ride, Chiquita (2011-2020).

The walking tours of the greenhouses have their own history. According to French Wikipedia, the current Behind the Seeds replaced two backstage tours with other names: one from 1982 to September 1993, then the Greenhouse Tours from December 1993 to 2004. Disney describes it today as a one-hour walk through a fish farm and four greenhouses.

Several episodes mark the site's life. According to Wikipedia, the "tomato tree" produced over 32,000 tomatoes in sixteen months, a result recognised by Guinness World Records; the biotechnology laboratory was moved to the Creative Greenhouse, and the integrated pest management laboratory took its place. A 2011 blog reports that Disney worked with the U.S. Department of Agriculture and NASA, and two photographs in the Commons category show, behind large windows, a "Biotechnology Lab" of the USDA Agricultural Research Service. During the year-end holidays the greenhouses receive an illuminated decoration under the name Glimmering Greenhouses.

English Wikipedia calls the pavilion a "conservatory-style" building and gives about 43,000 square feet (0.4 ha) to experimental horticulture, without separating the glasshouse area from the laboratories. In OpenStreetMap a dome is mapped as a greenhouse with a glass roof, on a footprint of about 1,100 m²; the ride's route, a water track, passes through this dome and then along a large rectangular block with a pale roof, visible on satellite imagery.

Photographs in the attraction's Commons category show, under the dome, a geodesic frame of transparent triangular panels; in the rectangular block, white steel frames covered with transparent panels on the roof and walls, a canal running past sand-based growing beds, vertical growing towers and an arched passage where the canal enters. According to Wikipedia, plants grow in sand, perlite, coconut coir and rockwool, with nutrient-film techniques, vertical columns and, in the Creative Greenhouse, aeroponics.

Wikipedia describes four themed greenhouses. The Tropics Greenhouse holds tropical crops such as banana, cacao and pineapple; the Temperate Greenhouse, formerly the Desert Greenhouse, large-growing crops including record-sized pumpkins and a "Nine-pound Lemon"; the String Greenhouse, formerly the Production Greenhouse, vertical crops on trellises, with the tomato tree; the Creative Greenhouse, mostly aeroponics, with a small display of NASA hydroponic units. The aquaculture area raises hybrid striped bass, tilapia, catfish and freshwater shrimp, according to Disney. Mickey-shaped cucumbers and pumpkins are produced with moulds.

An Orlando Magazine article cites coffee, grown for decades in sand-based hydroponics, kale in aeroponics, giant sweet potatoes, purple passionflower, trials of six cucumber varieties and several eggplants, and grains, sunflower heads and sugarcane sent to the Animal Nutrition Center. Every crop must be edible or agriculturally significant; most of the output goes to the park's restaurants and about 10 percent to the Animal Nutrition Center. Wikipedia counts more than 30 tons harvested on site each year.

The greenhouses can be seen in two ways. The Living with the Land boat ride, an attraction of the park, crosses them by boat in about fifteen minutes. The walking Behind the Seeds tour, paid and lasting an hour, covers the fish farm, the four greenhouses and some backstage areas, with photography allowed; the meeting point is on the pavilion's lower level, near the ride exit, and visitors should allow about two hours on site and book ahead.

From 27 November to 30 December 2026 the ride gives way to Glimmering Greenhouses, an illuminated holiday decoration, with an evening version of the guided tour. The pavilion's Sunshine Seasons and Garden Grill restaurants serve produce and seafood grown on site, according to Disney.