As autumn leaves begin to fall and the air turns crisp, gardeners find themselves reflecting on the season's harvest. While there's a sense of accomplishment in nurturing plants from seed to harvest, ...

In a growing movement, everyday individuals are saving and swapping seeds, an effort that can help boost biodiversity and ...

Starchy vegetables, like potatoes, have a higher carbohydrate (carb) content, typically around 15–30 grams of carbs per serving. In contrast, non-starchy vegetables, such as mushrooms, are much lower ...

Fortunately, vegetable seed suppliers produce useful catalogues and websites to help source seeds and choose cultivars (cultivated varieties). As seeds can be stored, it is worth buying in as wide a ...

In our current research project, “Strategies for Improving Biological Control of Insect Pests for Vegetable Growers Utilizing High Tunnels”, tomato harvest has ramped back up now that the raccoon ...

Weather update by Trent Ford, Illinois State Climatologist. Climatological summer encompasses June, July, and August, and the season often brings more than its fair share of intense weather. This past ...

In the 1980s, researchers excavating a cave in the Judean Desert, in Israel, uncovered a seed that was subsequently dated to sometime between 993 and 1202 AD, making it approximately 1,000 years old.

First founded by Chris Hoff in Gilberdyke in 1997, Greenland Seeds supplies seed mixes to growers, farmers, merchants and retailers across the agriculture and horticulture sectors. The business ...

Scientists have revived a mysterious, 1,000-year-old seed discovered in the Judean Desert — and the tree that has grown from it could belong to a lost lineage mentioned in the Bible, they say.