Plant Profiles

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Chayote Growing and Profile

Nan Fischer

Sunny Floral Desserts

Sheryl Campbell

Edible Flowers of Spring

Sheryl Campbell

Amazing Heirloom Melons

Amy Goldman; Photos Victor Schrager

The Life of a Fruit Tree

Orin Martin

On my journey to creating natural color, I was deeply inspired by a workshop I attended at Darthia Farm in my hometown of Gouldsboro, which is located on the rural coast of Maine. These artists and farmers were growing the traditional primary-color dye plants of madder, weld, and indigo, and they were saving and sharing […]

Fetching Flax: Plants for Fiber, Beauty and Seeds

Rita Buchanan

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My Grandmother's Heirloom Tomato Pasta Sauce Heirloom tomatoes make the best pasta sauce. Canning this sauce when your tomatoes are ripe means having homemade pasta sauce available year-round, especially enjoyable mid-winter.

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Homemade Witch Hazel Toner

Dawn Combs and DIY Natural

Witch hazel (Hamamelis virginiana) is one of my favorite local shrubs. I can’t decide whether I like it most for its unique leaves or its spectacular flowers. The yellow flowers bloom from September through November, most startlingly after the leaves have dropped in fall. Yellow explosions of floral fireworks set off against the bare, dark gray […]