The journey from sprint car driver to founding a family business, Grow Chico, that specializes in organic heirloom vegetable ...

The Choctaw Heirloom Seeds project began in November 2023, when five varieties of heirloom seeds were flown and lived on the International Space Station for six months. This is the first time Native ...

Picking out your plants for next spring? A master gardener primes you for ordering and to encourage you to do it as soon as ...

Growing your own vegetables isn't just about saving money or enjoying fresher produce-it can also significantly boost the ...

Native American foods feature nutritious ingredients that are indigenous to the Americas. Try some of these traditional ...

Preserved cave sites and the diversity of chili pepper varieties in the Tamaulipas region of Mexico have led to the assumption that it was the origin of Capsicum annum, the species that gives us ...

This is the final story in “The Healing Soil: Detroit’s Urban Farms,” a three-part series being co-published with Outlier ...

Learn how to grow watercress, indoors or outdoors, using the same methods gardeners have employed with heirloom watercress varieties since the 1870s. A Brief History of Heirloom Watercress ...

This evolutionary quirk helped hot peppers develop their spicy defense mechanism, capsaicinoids, which effectively deterred mammals from eating them while allowing birds to distribute their seeds ...

Chilly Chili ornamental pepper produces an abundance of attractive yellow, orange and red upright fruit on 10- to 12-inch plants. As the name suggests, they have almost no heat. Mix with flowers ...

Simon Hopkinson's recipe for roast peppers is perfect as an antipasto or a light lunch.This recipe is ridiculously easy, roasting a halved tomato snuggled inside the pepper and then topped with ...