While farmers plant millions acres of plants like rye and clover to boost soil health and crowd out weeds, a cover crop does the same thing in the smallest home garden. With cover crops, a vegetable ...

The secret is in the color. That was one of the lessons nutritionist Dee Budlier told a small group of students as she pointed to a plate of vegetables on a table in a classroom at McHenry County ...

Fondue is literally “melted” in French; the word’s well-known to anyone who harpooned bread cubes and chunks of London broil into dangerously bubbling, avocado-colored pots of cheese or oil back in ...

The famous gardener Ruth Stout did not invent mulch. By her account, God did. Leaves that fall — and other organic materials — feed the soil through their decomposition, protect it from erosion and ...

Herbs available at Jessica Marsico's free garden stand in Pine Hills. Instructions and reminders for using Jessica Marsico's free garden stand in Pine Hills. Jessica Marsico's free garden stand in ...

We've had dinner guests for the past two evenings and, when they left, I had forgotten to give them the bags of summer squash I had for them. Now the refrigerator is full of crook-neck, zucchini and ...

Might as well say it straight up: Kids don’t like vegetables. At least most kids don’t like most vegetables most of the time. That’s the ultimate lesson I draw after spending weeks in school kitchens ...