Why buy fruit trees and shrubs from a nursery when you can propagate them yourself easily and for free? Learn which fruiting ...

Growing fruit from cuttings is efficient, inexpensive, and fairly easy to do. Consider cultivating some of these trees and ...

Steep in milk or cream. Steep a few toasted leaves in warm milk or cream for 20 minutes and then remove and discard (or ...

Mary Menniti wants to see her Italian roots (and yours!) sprout up in gardens throughout the United States. In 2011, the Forest Hills resident founded The Italian Garden Project, a nonprofit that ...

Brian Melton cultivates over 300 fig varieties in Fresno through grafting. Local customers buy Melton's figs directly via social media and porch pickup. Fresno remains key to U.S. fig production, ...

Establishing winter cover crops after or between harvests can be a great way to preserve soil structure, protect against erosion and produce biomass that feeds the soil ecology. However, if you’re in ...

Elisha Wise will receive funding from the White Rose College of Arts and Humanities (ARCH) from October 2025. In chapter seven of Sylvia Plath’s The Bell Jar (1963), protagonist Esther Greenwood ...

A mugumo tree. A discovery, unveiled at the prestigious Goldschmidt Conference in Czech Republic, centres on Kenya’s Ficus wakefieldii—a relative of the sacred Mugumo tree that has grown across East ...

Some species of fig trees store calcium carbonate in their trunks—essentially turning themselves (partially) into stone, new research has found. The team of Kenyan, U.S., Austrian, and Swiss ...

Some fig trees can convert surprisingly large amounts of carbon dioxide into stone, ensuring that the carbon remains in the soil long after the tree has died. This means that fig trees planted for ...

A Chinese proverb says that the best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago, and the second best time is today. But it’s not easy to ensure the trees of today actually become the healthy, functioning ...