Beyond being a fun gardening win, the post highlights one of the biggest benefits of growing your own food.

PLEASING PERENNIAL: Kaley Laird, left, pastry chef at The Rhu, and chef John Fleer, right, owner of The Rhu and Rhubarb restaurant, use the eponymous plant’s tangy stalks to make pastries, sauces, ...

During the heyday of the Silk Road, dried rhubarb root was at times more expensive than cinnamon or opium, and Marco Polo went searching in northwest China for specimens that could thrive in Europe. A ...

The cool weather this spring has been good for rhubarb plants. After emerging in early May, the thick, tangy stalks are ready for harvesting to be turned into pie, sauce, jam and rhubarb bread. Early ...

Rhubarb (Rheum rhabarbarum) is not only a classic in the kitchen but also an easy-to-care-for and long-lasting garden plant.

Rhubarb sits on display at the Our Garden booth at the Ferguson Farmers Market. Q • I’m reading over my latest catalogs and thinking about ordering some rhubarb. Is it true they just send you roots?

It was early spring. I had recently moved to Point Reyes Station and was in the midst of preparing the vegetable garden. While removing dead and unwanted vegetation, I encountered a large clump of ...

Everybody who's ever listened to "A Prairie Home Companion" and a lot of Americans who haven't are familiar with rhubarb. Rhubarb was the big-leafed plant that faithfully came up each spring alongside ...

A celebration of a pink vegetable used as a favourite ingredient in sweet and tart desserts, jams, and pies, has begun in part of West Yorkshire. Rhubarb has been produced for more than 150 years in a ...

Meet Mike on Saturday and Sunday, April 16 and 17, at The Calvert (County) Home Show in Prince Frederick, Maryland. Details here. It’s been said that “April is the cruelest month,” and area gardeners ...