If you’re looking for a new gardening challenge with unique market potential, consider growing luffa gourds, an edible, exfoliating plant.

Love watching backyard birds but tired of paying for expensive suet cakes? Rendering beef fat is the first step in making your own homemade suet cakes.

By themselves or combined with other materials, shelf fungi are pretty, plentiful and perfect for making handmade mushroom paper.

You don’t have to go without fresh greens just because it’s winter. New technology makes indoor gardening easier and more efficient.

Learn about the Sicilian Buttercup chicken. It’s a breathtaking—and breathtakingly rare—heritage breed with a storied past.

Don’t let your potted trees and shrubs succumb to frost damage. ‘Heel in’ extra nursery stock to shield the delicate roots all winter long.

Potting up even the tiniest trees will pay critical environmental and economic dividends.

The sweet treats are easy enough to grow, but they can be tricky to extract.

Coordinating gardening efforts with nearby property owners can help honeybees, hummingbirds, butterflies and other pollinators.

The tiny aji charapitas peppers can be intense, but fresh ripe peaches soften that jolt for a jam that’s just right. Here’s how to make it.