Harry "Doug" Douglas must have had, at very least, faith as small as a mustard seed when trying to move his mountain of a restaurant into the Maplewood Loop. Many months passed between the time that ...

An invasive vine called kudzu thrives throughout the southern United States. The Department of Agriculture brought it to the United States from Japan in the early 20th century to stabilize eroding ...

For an all-purpose garden tool, you can’t beat a full set of molars. Andrew Montain, a 28-year-old urban farmer, presented this theory the other day in my kitchen as he rolled a nutmeg seed in his ...

Mankind has saved plant seeds for thousands of years. Jerome Feaster, of northwest Marion County, can trace the saving of seeds from his family's mustard greens for almost a century. And, now, he's ...

The mustard seed is a truly remarkable specimen. Ranging from 1-2 millimeters in diameter and colored yellowish white to black, these tiniest of seeds have a full lifecycle. Once planted in the ground ...

Sometimes tiny seeds, like a Mustard Seed, can grow into a large plant and bring big surprises. Just like the Mustard Seed parable, for which a downtown restaurant/coffee shop is named, the Mustard ...

“I found a few white flowering weeds in my garden and a bunch of smaller plants nearby that appear to be the same. I have not seen these weeds in my yard before. They seem to be taking over. The ...