There’s something undeniably enchanting about watching the snow blanket the world in quiet beauty—unless, of course, you're scraping it off your car and inching your way to work on slippery  …

I took the dusty glass jar from the basement shelf, the bean seeds inside rattling like a forgotten memory. My heart dipped as I realized that I hadn’t planted the  …

If laughter could kill, my mother and I wouldn’t have survived to share this story! One sunny day, we found ourselves doubled over on the living room sofa, unable to  …

It has always been a mystery to me: how do farmers manage to grow carrots that are perfectly straight, single-rooted, and almost uniform in shape and size, when carrots, given  …

It was 1996 when I committed an unforgivable act. The year before, we had purchased 35 acres of mostly wooded, steeply sloped land bordered by a river on two sides.  …

I gave it my all—because let me tell you, growing Cape gooseberries (physalis) in Scotland is no small feat. You don’t just toss seeds in the dirt and whistle while  …

Mrs. Hannan, our beloved fourth-grade teacher, must’ve realized we were exhausted from reciting "O Captain, My Captain" and trying to remember every detail of Paul Revere’s midnight dash. One crisp  …

This is a true story, though many facts have been exaggerated to protect the innocent. It’s also possible it happened so long ago that my memory might be playing tricks  …

I’ve always admired banana plants—the way their enormous leaves fan out like nature’s parasols and turn any ordinary field into a scene from a tropical paradise. Living in the countryside  …

My grandma was a trailblazer. One of the first women in her community to attend university post-women’s liberation, she fearlessly studied botany—an eyebrow-raising choice at the time. Discussions of plant  …