It’s always a bit sad to see our summer vegetable gardens peter out as the season comes to a close. Those once-verdant plants are now fading as the long, hot summer takes its toll. Though harvests of ...

LEICESTER, N.C. — It was a dewy morning when I joined Chris Smith, author of “The Whole Okra,” at the Utopian Seed Project’s experimental farm near Asheville, North Carolina. It wasn’t even 9 a.m. and ...

Are you letting your okra go to seed? This season, I’ve had plenty of okra, and I’m starting my annual practice of saving okra seeds for next year. Even though today’s growers can easily purchase any ...

In a pocket of densely populated Clifton there grows an okra forest. Tree-like stalks of the crop rise 9 feet into the air, and fuzzy, green pods sway in the wind. The growers at City Green Farm ...

It’s that time of the year when you need to be thinking about next summer’s garden seeds. If you haven’t saved seed for next year, now would be a good time to start. What I’ve found is that the seed I ...

As you scour the seed catalogs and websites for new and favorite flower and vegetable seeds, take time to inventory the seeds you have saved from previous years. You’ll save money by not buying more ...

“Growing is a conversation with the land. Growing vegetables and grains that are passed down is a conversation between the past and the present.” Subscribe Now to Keep Reading We count on our readers ...

At first glance, Chris Smith’s modest farm plot outside Asheville, North Carolina, has nothing in common with the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the powerful particle collider located on the border of ...

The growing season is heading down the home stretch now, so it’ll be time in the coming weeks to cash in on what’s left in the garden. Warm-season crops like tomatoes, peppers, cucumbers, eggplants, ...