Henry Grabar has had enough battling knotweed. All he wanted was to build a small garden in Brooklyn—a bit of peace amid the cacophony of city life. But a plant with beet-red leaves soon took over his ...

Durango forager, grower, educator and plant expert Katrina Blair – who founded the local nonprofit Turtle Lake Refuge – has been in love with wild edible plants for most of her life. She knew that at ...

Energy has seemed to be in stasis, the last throes of winter killing or wiping clean what no longer needs to exist. For us Northern Hemispherians, the change began in early February, the midway point ...

Once dismissed as backyard nuisances that needed constant elimination, wild plants like dandelion, purslane, and chickweed are now being celebrated on gourmet restaurant menus and trending across ...

Last week my friend from the radio station asked me an interesting question as to whether I knew anything about how to go through the yard and find plants that a person could eat if there wasn’t ...

Wild buckwheat (Polygonum convolvulus) is a summer annual weed found commonly in small cereal grains. In wheat, wild buckwheat can reduce yields up to 66 percent. In addition, wild buckwheat climbs up ...

Summit County is a beautiful place lush with wildflowers, mountain views and amazing activities. However, there is an issue impacting our national forests, open spaces, ranches, recpaths, parks and ...

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