From rare peppers to blight tickets, one Detroiter spent decades growing a healthier self and city. Here’s why he might move on.

An emerging group of farmers and growers in Chile, known as seed guardians, aim to protect the traditional crops of their ...

Keep the harvests coming with these hardy crops for the winter garden.

Our grow-your-own expert Mark Diacono looks back on the early days of his growing, and how things he'd never heard of such as ...

With this weird, long warm fall, it’s easy to put off putting your garden to bed for the winter. But weather can change very ...

The mild, sweet flavour of spring onion is quite different from its big brothers, the brown, red and shallot. This vegetable ...

A new hoard of 30,000 seeds, including those from Africa, was added to the Svalbard Global Seed Vault in late October, ...

Detroit resident Heidi Penix started a garden while simultaneously learning of a cancer diagnosis. “It’s a constant process of learning what it takes to keep things alive,” she says.

Learning how to plan and plant a vegetable garden is easy, once you know a little bit about the needs of various vegetables ...

Smart gardeners spend the winter assessing the wins and losses of the past season and using that as the basis to plan next ...

Cool-season annual weed seeds generally begin to germinate and grow in early to mid-October, and that is the best time to ...

Canada thistle (Cirsium arvense) is an aggressive, invasive plant. Here's how it spreads and how to identify it so it doesn't take over your garden.