It is possible to grow edible native plants in your yard without angering your neighbors and violating the rules of your HOA, ...

A colourful yard is like a sign of a healthy garden. However, it is important to note that not all colourful plants that grow in your yard are healthy. In fact, some of these colourful weed plants ...

Wild garlic, oyster mushrooms and sea beet were once regularly gathered and eaten as part of meals across the UK. Today, some people have concerns about eating food growing in the woods or hedgerows, ...

Are you starting a pollinator garden? Plant this low-effort self-seeding native wildflower to provide hungry birds and insects with abundant pollen and nectar.

Here's some of the most toxic flowering or fruiting weeds that pose danger to humans and animals that could be in your yard and tips for safe removal.

The lawn you've dutifully mowed, edged, fertilized, and fretted over for years wasn't a tradition handed down through generations. It was a postwar marketing invention, and most homeowners have been ...

Douglas County Extension Master Gardeners will be hosting a free garden show to celebrate the beginning of spring. The event, “Big Ideas Garden Show,” will be held from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Saturday, ...

Recipes, common varieties, and what to look for when shopping. Is there anything cooler in the culinary world than the mushroom? For starters, they're blissfully weird: Some can have 23,000 sexes.

New archaeological evidence challenges the popular image of Paleolithic humans as predominantly meat-eaters. If you imagine early humans living on big game alone, new research says that picture is ...

Salicornia thrives in high-saline environments, like coastal marshes, and has a lot of nutritional and medicinal ...

Discover one of Illinois’ largest state parks, nearly 20,000 acres of lakes, wildlife, trails, and surprising history waiting ...

Okuma is the closest town to the three nuclear reactors that melted down at the Fukushima Daiichi power plant on March 11, 2011. On that day, a 9.0-magnitude earthquake and tsunami destroyed the ...