Chickweed is a wild, edible green that grows in most backyards. Dropping temperatures and declining amounts of daylight have been doing a real number on edible wild greens available from the landscape ...

GREEN MEAL: Local herbalist Juliet Blankenspoor says one of her favorite breakfasts is a toasted bagel with olive oil and raw garlic, topped with violet leaves, violet flowers and chickweed greens.

There's something tasty about eating what you grow instead of getting your produce from the local grocery store. While there are tons of fruits and vegetables to plant for a homegrown garden, the ...

The growing season can provide many different medicines straight from your yard or garden, sometimes wild and sometimes cultivated. Here are a few of my favorites to make for our family from our farm: ...

Some weeds are beneficial to your yard and ecosystem and are best left untouched. Dandelions, purslane, and chickweed are a few—and they're edible too. Clover, white campion, and pennycress aren't ...

Wild Green Yonder is a recurring monthly feature from the Norfolk Botanical Garden staff. Each day, gardeners and homeowners wage war in their lawns and flower beds against unintentionally existing ...

The Medicine Hunter, Chris Kilham, recently spent the day with Steve “Wildman” Brill in New York's Central Park, to learn about foraging for medicinal and edible plants. The two ended up finding some ...

You probably get your greens at the grocery store, or occasionally at the farmer’s market for local and seasonal produce. But would you go green hunting on the streets around town? “It can’t get any ...

This week all the mystery plants were annual winter weeds. The mild, cool weather we had in the fall and early winter gave a quick startup to this annual problem. Weeds are rampant, and the recent ...