In your yard, you probably have some plants that produce food, and I am not just talking about your vegetable garden. There are many landscape plants that we don’t conventionally grow for food that ...

For years, Linda Hayes treated the flower beds around her suburban home as a place for colorful decorations, not something ...

What if, instead of being the source of a groan-inducing, time-consuming chore (mowing), your lawn became a food source?

Part of the joy of gardening is falling in love with the plants you choose to nurture, especially those with a tasty reward. While the traditional carrots and raspberries certainly have their place, ...

So planting fever has grabbed you, and you're heading out to your favorite nursery or thumbing through a catalog to see what's available in shrubs. Decisions, decisions. Should your shrubs offer tasty ...

Tom Oder is a writer, editor, and communication expert who specializes in sustainability and the environment with a sweet spot for urban agriculture. Take a walk in your neighborhood and think about ...

Grow edible edging plants for borders along your property lines for fresh edible foodscaping crops all year round. Borders are great places to make use of permanent or perennial plants. An even better ...

If Fort Knox isn't what you need for a garden fence, consider something edible, instead of the usual cedars, boxwood, privet, or forsythia. A dense planting of fruit- or nut-bearing shrubs or small ...

This video examines how wild violets function as low-maintenance ornamentals and edible plants, noting their restrained color ...

This spring, don’t forage for wild edible plants. Instead, welcome them into your garden. By Margaret Roach Jared Rosenbaum knows the primal thrill of foraging — a sense of interdependence with the ...

Growing your own food is cheap, sustainable and having the plants around spruces up even the dreariest room. Here are 11 edible plants that are super easy to grow inside or outside, in cities and ...