Planning a garden that can sustain you requires more than just picking your favorite vegetables. A survival garden is a ...

A new book suggests the novel approach of eating or in some other way using invasive plants rather than trying to kill them ...

Heat-loving plants that thrive in California's Death Valley could hold the key to growing crops in a changing climate.

Step into the forest with me, dear traveler. I am the princess of these berry-bright woods, and I must tell you a secret ...

The Monterey Peninsula is one of the best places to hunt for edible and medicinal plants, seasonal fruits, nuts and berries ...

Abutilon, or flowering maple, is considered an annual that must be replaced each year, but in Western Washington gardeners have had great success growing the plant for several years without even ...

Why it's incredible: The forest preserves some of the oldest trees in the world. The Cairo Fossil Forest is a unique collection of 385 million-year-old trees preserved in an abandoned quarry in ...

Many wild edible plants have poisonous doppelgangers. A variety of printed field guides advise foragers to familiarize themselves with the dangerous species in their area, including potential ...

A new international study involving researchers from the University of Gothenburg shows that vegetation in the Arctic is changing rapidly as species from nearby forests spread into the tundra. This ...