Discover how to successfully grow avocado trees in challenging clay soil with Mark from Self Sufficient Me. Drawing on over ...

Growing apple trees can be challenging. Here is what experts recommend to increase your chances for a bountiful apple harvest.

"The scraps that actually feed you are the green ones." ...

This month, I took on something I’ve only done once before — fruit tree grafting for Extension food access projects across the tri-county area. Last spring, I grafted 24 apple scions onto 24 ...

It would be a dream to have an avocado tree on the patio to make avocado toast or fresh guacamole anytime. Growing an avocado tree from the pit is easy to do in water or soil, but you’ll have to be ...

Most people don’t expect to wait two decades for a result—especially not from something as simple as an avocado seed. But that’s exactly what happened to me. What started as a casual decision to save ...

Tobacco plants make a lot of the amino acid tryptophan, the basis of many psychoactive compounds. Alfian Widiantono via Getty Images Nature can be pretty trippy, with mind-altering psychedelics coming ...

Compounds in psychedelic drugs like DMT, psilocybin, and psilocin are naturally produced in certain plants, fungi, and animals, and have a long history of use in spiritual and therapeutic contexts.

Scientists have engineered tobacco plants to produce five powerful psychedelic compounds normally found in other plants, fungi and animals in a single crop. They argue that using plants to manufacture ...

Gooseberries are delicious when fully ripe, but they can be harvested before for preserves. Grow the best perennial fruit plants for succession harvesting to enjoy fresh fruit throughout the growing ...