It’s always a bit sad to see our summer vegetable gardens peter out as the season comes to a close. Those once-verdant plants are now fading as the long, hot summer takes its toll. Though harvests of ...

Are you letting your okra go to seed? This season, I’ve had plenty of okra, and I’m starting my annual practice of saving okra seeds for next year. Even though today’s growers can easily purchase any ...

Before seed companies, seed racks, and seed catalogs came along, vegetable gardeners ensured their plantings for the following year by saving their own seeds. Our foregardeners would look for the ...

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LEICESTER, N.C. — It was a dewy morning when I joined Chris Smith, author of “The Whole Okra,” at the Utopian Seed Project’s experimental farm near Asheville, North Carolina. It wasn’t even 9 a.m. and ...

In a pocket of densely populated Clifton there grows an okra forest. Tree-like stalks of the crop rise 9 feet into the air, and fuzzy, green pods sway in the wind. The growers at City Green Farm ...

Time-lapse of planting an okra from a seed to harvest-able pods. The okra seed was sowed under potting mix soil in a 10-inch ...