Did you know the microbes in your compost pile is still active in the dead of winter? They will be if you take certain steps to get ready for cold weather.

Gavin Lerch's family property was once planted with sugar cane. Today it thrives as a 7-year-old macadamia orchard on tough grey-clay soil.The farm ...

Why the sarcastic quotes around composting? Well, our waste isn’t becoming the black gold that helps gardens and treebeds thrive. In fact, if you look at the city’s signage around the program, the ...

As the season shifts from summer to fall marked by cooler weather and leaves changing color and falling, lawn and garden maintenance shifts, too. The lawn may soon be covered in piles of leaves. Some ...

As busy as the spring gardening season is, so also is fall gardening a busy time. There is clearly more to do in spring because of more planting, but many spring activities are also fall activities.

The end of September is the perfect time to add spring flowering bulbs to your garden. Planting daffodils, tulips and crocus this month will make next spring come alive, plus you get to enjoy the ...

"Robins have a strong preference for live or dried mealworms," explains Petar Ivanov, gardening expert at Fantastic Gardeners. "If you want to instantly attract robins, put these out in a shallow dish ...

The fence enclosed CATEM, a de facto immigrant detention center in Costa Rica where Dimitry, his wife, and their 6-year-old son were sent in February, along with 200 other asylum-seekers from Armenia, ...

Unlike many plants, hostas don’t need a lot of winter protection. In most zones, they don’t need frost covers or blankets, even during harsh winters. In fact, a season of frost and dormancy actually ...

There's nothing quite so satisfying as the sound of autumn leaves crunch, crunch, crunching underfoot – unless, of course, you're trudging through your own backyard. While it's tempting to run for a ...

Fargo area residents pitch in at community gardens and take home a share of the harvest, while also donating to a good cause and meeting new people in the process.