Generations of Indigenous peoples worldwide worked for thousands of years with wild plants to produce the foods that sustain us today. Seed is the first link in the food chain, a 10,000-year-old ...

Fall is the perfect time to start collecting seeds from your garden. As temperatures drop and plants finish their growing cycle, they naturally produce mature seeds ready for harvest. Why bother with ...

Seed saving connects a gardener more closely to a plant’s life cycle. It’s also a way to disconnect from corporations that copyright seed varieties, often limiting plant diversity. Saved heritage ...

The population of essential milkweed plants has decreased over the past decades. Help restore their numbers by collecting ...

German chamomile is a popular herb often used to make a delicious tea. You can easily keep it growing in your garden by doing ...

Celeste Scott shows how to collect vegetable seeds, and Lucas Holman talks about garlic. This week on The Family Plot: Gardening in the Mid-South, UT Extension Agent Celeste Scott demonstrates how to ...

Growing up in suburban New York City, our house was surrounded by woods of primarily American beech (Fagus grandifolia) and white oak (Quercus alba). And one year it occurred to me that I could ...

From British Columbia to California, volunteers are collecting ash seeds to help researchers at Oregon State University find genetic resistance to the invasive emerald ash borer. The emerald ash borer ...

The Natural Land Institute is inviting the public to help collect seeds from native prairie plants at Nygren Wetland Preserve. The Fall Prairie Harvest Day is set for 9 a.m. to noon Sept. 27 at the ...