News and Other Articles That I've Found Interesting
An Ode to the Dandelion: Deciphering fact from fiction for one of the most infamous plants in the world.
L.A. County finds high lead levels in soil on properties already cleaned by Army Corps
Polluted soil is all over L.A. Here’s how to fix it, even if your home didn’t burn
Love Them to Death: Turning Invasive Plants into Local Economic Opportunities
A brand-new rose popped up in Barbra Streisand’s garden. Now you can buy it for yours
A simple way you can actually help save the world
Invasive plants make fires worse. Can they be stopped?
Helping Families by Monitoring Soil Safety after the LA Fires
After the Fire: Home Garden and Fruit Tree Safety
Don’t mess with Mexico’s maíz: Constitutional amendment to ban GMO corn seeds
Inside the Japanese-American Farm Preserving Endangered Fruit
A Guide to the Peppers of the World
How a humble mail carrier developed the Hass avocado in Southern California
Invasive Plants: What They Are and Why They Matter
Do more than clear brush. Garden for fire.
Fire Recovery Resources for Your Landscape & Garden
What trees survived in our terrible fires? And why didn’t they burn?
Is the ash and residue from the recent fires a danger to the fruits and vegetables in your garden?
Gardening in Areas Outside the Burn Zone
Now that you can return home after the fires, how do you clean up safely?
Produce Safety after a Fire
12 beautiful plants and flowers to enjoy in Southern California in 2025
Night of the Radishes
An ancient, Indigenous, legendary bean to give thanks for
Huitlacoche, a Mexican Fungus, is Popping Up On Restaurant Menus Across the US
Meet the Italian ‘Fruit Detective’ Who Investigates Centuries-Old Paintings for Clues About Produce That Has Disappeared From the Kitchen Table
Where have all the orange groves gone?
Was NYC’s Little Island worth all the travel troubles to get there?
Why Does the Season Before Winter Have Two Names?
California’s Food Recovery Program is the First of its Kind in the US
National Hummingbird Day – September 7, 2024
Another blistering heat wave is here. Start protecting your plants now
How Cherokee Trail of Tears Beans Connect a Community to Its Roots
Which fruits and vegetables have the most pesticide residue?
Interview With John Schoustra - Avocado Growing
Want a landscape that will outlast climate change? Plant these Ice Age survivors
10 Common Tomato Problems and How to Solve Them!
Book Review = Foraging Southern California: 118 Nutritious, Tasty, and Abundant Foods
Book Review = Regenerating Essential Goods and Services in Urban Landscapes: Sustainability Through Ecological Design
When is it OK to pick someone else’s fruit tree?
Buzzy, Fuzzy, and Wild -- Celebrating Peak Pollinator Season
The Super Luxe History of Pineapples—And Why They Used to Cost $8000
The 18th-Century Spy Who Gave Us Big Strawberries
Turn Your Garden Into an ‘Ark of Taste’ for Nearly Lost Plants
End Of A Dynasty: Nuccio's Nurseries
About 69 percent of the global diet is “foreign"
15 best native plants to grow in your yard if you also want fragrant bouquets
18 ways to volunteer with native plants in and around L.A.
April is National Garden Month!
Would You Eat This Purple Tomato?
Zesty Edible Flowers List
Will 2024 give us a superbloom — and where to see wildflowers now
How to Prepare Garden Soil For Spring Using Regenerative and Organic Techniques
Five Great Native Plants
For Women’s History Month, a look at some trailblazers in American gardening and horticulture
The Best of Food on Colossal
How Black Pepper Won Europe From a Tastier Pepper
The World’s Longest-Running Experiment Is Buried in a Secret Spot in Michigan
Pruning Roses and Cultivating Beauty
Turf is out. Native grasses are in. Here are 4 lush low-water options
The Greatest Trees of Los Angeles
Urban Ag is Nothing New. Representing it in City Government is.
‘Edible meadow’ for improved gut health to feature at Chelsea flower show
Prepare to forfeit your homegrown fruit to stop the Oriental fruit fly
Unprecedented Footage Shows Plants ‘Talking’ to Their Neighbors about Potential Predators
Relict Gold: The Long Journey of the Chinese Narcissus
California redwoods 'killed' by wildfire come back to life with 2,000-year-old buds
The lesser-known Latin American history behind the poinsettia flower
Heirloom Pea Varieties
Here’s what’s wrong with your perfectly drought-tolerant Southern California landscaping
Pearls Puncture and Support Fruit and Vegetables
Where do fall colors come from?
How Did Madagascar Become the World’s Biggest Producer of Vanilla?
Why One Island Grows 80% of the World’s Vanilla
California native plants are not our only choice for drought-tolerant landscapes
Danish Street Art Project Has Built Over 3,500 Urban Bird Houses Since 2006
Rose hips’ seedpods provide a pop of color in the fall and winter garden
Looking for the Perfect Onion. From Georgia to New Zealand, the quest for a sweet, painless onion continues.
The Thousand-Year Rose
Ok–I know something is wrong, but what is it?
Millions of sterile fruit flies are being dropped on L.A. to fight an infestation
How Sunflowers See the Sun
12 Facts About Día de los Muertos
Pumpkins are known for a ghoulish grin and delicious taste. Their origins are rooted in Mexican history.
The Monarch Butterfly Steals From Poisonous Plants to Survive
‘They’ve never seen anything like this’: Their DIY garden is inspiring the block
Grave of the Potato King
Why Leaves Change Color in Fall
History with A Peel
To Hass and Hass Not: Avocados at The Huntington and Beyond
Three Sisters Native American Gardening
Would You Trust AI to Help You Forage?Before you buy a plant field guide, make sure it wasn’t written by a computer.
What Is a Bay Leaf, Exactly?
How to get into the hottest clubs in L.A. County — community gardens
Why a Vancouver Cemetery Is Planting Squash, Kale, and Corn
Where have all the camellias gone? A bittersweet end for historic Nuccio’s Nurseries
New law to protect Joshua trees from climate change imposes fees on desert developers
Tree Law is a Gnarly, Twisted Branch of the Legal System
Seedy mixup results in #Jalapeñogate drama across the US
Glass Gem Corn
On rooftops and under bridges, community gardens will bloom in South L.A.
I’m hot! So are my plants!
Flower power and diplomacy: Versailles perfume gardens transport public back in time
Let's All Eat Flowers
Is This the World’s Most Beloved Asparagus?
The Thousand-Year Rose
Flower power and diplomacy: Versailles perfume gardens transport public back in time
8 L.A. trees to love that aren’t jacarandas
Castroville vs. Coachella: Battle heats up to grow the perfect California artichoke
The Original Caesar Salad Was Finger Food
Plant by plant, flower by flower, he created his own Shangri-La in a Griffith Park nook
Crop rotation makes the garden go ’round
In Southern California, everything is blooming everywhere all at once
Community Organizations Turn to Gleaning to Redistribute Local Produce
Gardening in the time of COVID
L.A. Sanitation Composting Law: Composting 101 with Caleigh Wells
Stunning Wildflower Superbloom Photos That Will Have You Racing to the Hills
How America’s Beloved Meyer Lemon Caused a Mid-Century Citrus Panic
This Is What It Sounds Like When Plants Cry
Is it OK to plant in mud? The best tips for gardening in super-soaked L.A.
The one gardening mistake you can’t afford to make
Growing Wheat in Your Backyard
"Dirty Dozen" Garden Products
What We Learn from Leafing Through Seed Catalogues
Unlocking Secrets of the Honeybee Dance Language
Why 2023 could be the year of the superbloom
The Farmers and Gardeners Saving the South’s Signature Green
Want to live longer? Consider planting a tree.
Your ‘superbloom’ selfie isn’t worth destroying California’s ecosystems
Los Angeles and the "Orange Empire"
Pando, the World’s Largest Organism, Is Being Eaten by Deer
A community garden in Watts provides solace, fresh produce for immigrants
This WWII weapons bunker has a new mission: Sheltering a scientist's insect collection
How Poinsettias Became a Christmas Staple
Best Crops For A Self Sufficient Garden Plan
A Quest for the Gros Michel, the Great Banana of Yesteryear
Grave of the Potato King
In U.S. Prisons, Seeds Are Prized Contraband for Prisoners Looking to Grow Their Own Food
Where do fall colors come from?
Time to 'Bee' Thankful
The Medieval Origins of Thanksgiving Dinner
The Pirate, the Mailman and the Avocado: The Accidental History of Avocados in California
The most fragrant native plants are just heavenly. Here’s what to plant now
The Hidden History of the Housewarming Pineapple
Po-TAY-to, po-TAH-to: Let’s call the whole yam thing off.
When Voluntary Action Isn’t Enough: The Case For Regulating Pesticide-Coated Seed
Long before citrus reigned in Southern California, L.A. made wine. Lots of it
Fortune-telling with food is an age-old custom
In ‘The Cultivar Series,’ Uli Westphal Gets to the Root of Crop Diversity and Agricultural Modification
AMERICA’S LOST CROPS REWRITE THE HISTORY OF FARMING
Tropical Milkweed Doesn't Deserve the Bad Rap
Tulips for the desert?
Reverse Pollinator Decline in Your Backyard
Compost
Durian Fruit: 3-Year Old Eats The Smelliest Fruit on Earth!
Ojibwe harvest sacred, climate-imperiled wild rice
The Queen's Floral Legacy
‘The American lawn feels irresponsible’: the LA homes ditching grass for drought-friendly gardens
Eight Superfoods That Could Future-Proof Our Diet
Looking for fall vibes? Here are 8 places to pick apples within driving distance of L.A.
In the 1800s, This British Isle Was Covered in Groves of 12-Foot-Tall Kale
The Words We Use for Food: Understanding Labels at the Farmers Market and Grocery Store
Waterwise Gardening: Living the Dry Life
Why Birds Changed Their Tune During the Pandemic
Insect Pollinators are Essential for Seed Saving
Root Beer Plant
Tropical Milkweed (Asclepias curassavica) A Noxious Weed No Longer Sold in Ventura County
Tropical Milkweed—A No-Grow
Monarch Migration Underway from Pacific Northwest
We’re in a heat wave. That’s going to completely change your winter garden plans
That Milkweed You Buy at Retail Nurseries May Contain Pesticides
Want a winter crop? Wait till November to plant
Meet the Urban Farmer Determined to Teach Others About Edible Landscapes
USDA Invests $300 Million to Help Farmers Transition to Organic Production
Using Weeds to Read the Soil: Some Basic Concepts to Get Started
Save the Tomatoes! How to Protect Your Raised Bed from a Heat Wave
Here’s What the Watermelon Was Up to Before It Tasted Good
Farmers’ Battle Against, and Now For, Milkweed
The urban garden transforming lives after prison: ‘I’m finally free’
Meet the Great Seed Detective
The consciousness of bees
Monarch Butterflies: Closer to Extinction
How urban planners' preference for male trees has made your hay fever worse
Why Beans Were an Ancient Emblem of Death
Getting to the root of watering the vegetable garden
How heatwaves are creating a pollen crisis
Meet the Woman Restoring Native American Peaches to the Southwest
Inside the Gently Competitive World of Giant Vegetable Growing
Tomato season is open!
Saving Your Trees From Drought!
Save trees first: Tips to keep them alive during drought
2,292 Plants Fill the Audience in Opening Performance at Barcelona’s Gran Teatre del Liceu
Increasingly Heavy Farm Vehicles Are Crushing Soil Health
13 plants that thrive in raised garden beds in L.A., even in summer
When Tomatoes Were Blamed For Witchcraft and Werewolves
We’re in a megadrought. Here’s how to keep your veggie garden alive this summer
Native Plants for Southern California Pollinators
Wild mustard fields can be dazzling — and devastating
How the Rage for Sage Threatens Native American Traditions and Recipes
Find these 6 gardens hidden in unexpected places around Los Angeles
Does Adding Fungi to Soil Do More Harm Than Good?
Why Beans Were an Ancient Emblem of Death
Wildflowers Springing Up
Worm composting is great for the planet and your garden.
The Vegetable Gardener’s Guide to Crop Rotation
Remembering the ‘Kiwi Queen’ Who Revolutionized American Produce Aisles
The Fight To Save Chile’s Glorious White Strawberry
The Farmers and Gardeners Saving the South’s Signature Green
The White House Vegetable Garden: 10 Fascinating Facts
SoCal plant people: Here’s how to prepare for this week’s frosty winter storm
A plant that outlived dinosaurs is being poached to extinction, crime analysts warn
How to Resurrect Gold-Rush Era Orchards Ravaged by Fire
SNAP Benefits Can Be Used to Buy Seeds. Why Isn’t That Well Known?
He spends his days counting monarch butterflies in L.A. He could use your help
Urban Farming Can Actually Be Pretty Productive
Dig Into an Enormous Archive of Drawings Unveiling the Complex Root Systems of 1,180 Plants
The one gardening mistake you can’t afford to make: Feed Your Soil!
Exploring the ultimate Christmas plant, the poinsettia, and its Southern California history
Wild Poinsettias Can Grow 8 Feet Tall
The ‘Rock Food’ Feast That Looks Good Enough to Eat
The Myth, the Legend, the Parasite: Romance, Lore, and Science beneath the Mistletoe
Holiday Season Brings Poisonous Plants into the Home
Colored Micrographs Magnify Pollen Seeds, Plant Cells, and Leaf Structures
The Magnificent Orchards That Protect the World’s Fruit
After Record Low, Monarch Butterflies Return