The tomato’s path from wild plant to household staple is much more complex than researchers have long thought.
- Anna Ball By
Rural school gardens get students back in touch with their food, a new study finds.
What’s not to like about gardening? It’s a great way to get outdoors, away from everyday routines, and to exercise your creativity.
A startling phenomenon occurs after a bushfire tears through a landscape. From the blackened soil springs an extraordinary natural revival – synchronised germination that carpets the landscape in flowers and colour.
When I answer my office phone as an extension vegetable specialist, from time to time it’s someone asking how they can get recognition for growing a huge tomato, possibly the biggest one ever.
- Ranjan Datta By
About eight years ago, 10 families (including mine) and others started a small community garden in Saskatoon.
- Yvonne Black By
Spending time in outdoors, taking time out of the everyday to surround yourself with greenery and living things can be one of life’s great joys – and recent research also suggest it’s good for your body and your brain.
Anyone who has traveled across multiple time zones and suffered jet lag will understand just how powerful our biological clocks are
f you have a hummingbird feeder filled with sugar water, you might have the impression that all that hummingbirds need to live a healthy life is to sip sweet drinks all day long.
Some might balk at the idea that plants made of roots, stems and leaves could have intelligence or consciousness.
On a bright spring afternoon in late April, roughly 75 people gathered at the first Camp Fire restoration weekend at a farm 20 miles southwest of Paradise, California.
A nighttime arrival at Amsterdam’s Schiphol Airport flies you over the bright pink glow of vegetable production greenhouses.
You might not really be sure you saw what you think you saw when the first one shows up.
- Jack Marley By
Many scientists believe that halting global warming at 1.5°C will require us to invent Negative Emission Technologies – machines that can suck climate warming gases like carbon dioxide (CO₂) from the air.
Iris, a high school student in New York City, took a course aimed at preparing public school students for college.
- Adam Bates By
If you could ask British insects about the habitats they prefer, they’d probably tell you that you can’t improve on grassland that’s rich with wildflowers.