We're used to finding our produce in the grocery store, but Mother Nature has plenty of her own - you just have to know where and what to look for. Today's heavily urbanized world often robs us of the ...

It’s critical to avoid accidental poisoning. If you have even the slightest doubt about a plant’s safety, don’t touch or taste it.

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If "waste not want not" and minimizing your kitchen waste is your goal, you might want to start looking in unexpected places. We all know the basics like freezing veggies on the verge, and keeping ...

The two western North Carolina-based herbalists led a walking tour of 15 nature lovers through the gardens and educated them on the benefits of many plants.

Blackberries, blueberries, how about beautyberries!? This purple-hued beauty is beautiful in appearance and scientifically known as the Callicarpa americana be ...

One of the most popular houseplants today is the fiddle leaf fig (Ficus lyrata). Yet this arboreal gem is also a candidate for outdoor growing.

Gardening with kids can be a wonderful family activity, but safety comes first when little curious hands and mouths are around. As a Pennsylvania gardener with young children, I’ve researched ...

The answer to What Do Deer Eat? includes just about everything that grows up from the ground or falls from a tree—including the tree itself. Given the choice between an apple, an acorn, and a clover ...

Leaf-peeping season is about to begin! Summer's high temperatures have cooled for much of the eastern U.S. as temperatures dipped 10 to 20 degrees below the historical average for the first week of ...