Spinach growing time lapse: this spinach is short-term and easy to grow in a small container. The seed was planted directly ...

It's fall, which means it's time to figure out which plants are going to work best for container gardens. Design expert Cindy Funes has some answers.

Four years ago, an ornamental sweet potato shook up the green industry. It was named after Medusa, a figure from Greek ...

Quilting is a Midwestern tradition. Many of them grew up with mothers or grandmothers who were passionate quilters. Passing ...

I crunched through the dried leaves on our sidewalk as I looked up to admire the glorious orange, red and yellow leaves on trees in our colorful autumn season. When I walked into our house, I picked ...

Drying, or dehydration, is one of the earliest forms of food preservation. Early populations recognized that the action of the sun and wind could remove water.

Walk into any grocery store, or better yet, your local farmers’ market this time of year, and you’ll likely see bins overflowing with seasonal squash in dozens of colors, shapes and sizes. Knowing the ...

Ten student-proof meals—cheap, fast, and surprisingly good—plus the tiny upgrades that make pantry staples taste like a plan.

A potato-like plant interbred with ancient tomatoes. Without this evolutionary event, the tuber we know wouldn’t exist.