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Planning your 2026 garden? Avoid these 5 common rookie mistakes—from overcrowding to forgetting pollinators—to ensure your heirloom seeds thrive this season.

It happens every year around this time. The "Winter Blues" set in. You look out the window at the gray sky and the frozen ground, and you feel that...

  Stop Guessing: What the Color of a Tomato Tells You About Its Flavor If you close your eyes and imagine a tomato, you probably picture a round, r...

We often think of "modern" agriculture as the peak of efficiency. But centuries before we had chemical fertilizers or plastic trellises, Native Ame...

One of the biggest lies in gardening is that you need "land" to grow food. We look at photos of sprawling farms with endless rows of corn and pumpk...

The hardest part of gardening is the waiting. You have your seed packets ready. You have your garden map drawn. But the calendar says you have to w...

We have all done it. You go a little overboard buying seeds in the winter (it’s hard to resist!), and you end up with more packets than you have ga...

Have you looked at your grocery receipt lately? It’s painful. A plastic clamshell of basil costs $4.00. A bag of spinach that goes slimy in two day...

There is nothing more frustrating than watching your vegetable garden grow big and lush, seeing the yellow blossoms open on your squash or cucumber...

Let’s talk about that jar in your pantry. You know the one—it’s been sitting there for six months, it smells like vinegar, and the "tomatoes" insid...

Walk down the aisle of any big-box garden center, and you will see racks upon racks of colorful seed packets. Some say "F1 Hybrid." Others say "Hei...

If you walked into a grocery store and saw a tomato that was lumpy, misshapen, had cracks around the stem, and was a weird bruised-purple color, yo...