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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

At first glance, Chris Smith’s modest farm plot outside Asheville, North Carolina, has nothing in common with the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the powerful particle collider located on the border of ...

As you scour the seed catalogs and websites for new and favorite flower and vegetable seeds, take time to inventory the seeds you have saved from previous years. You’ll save money by not buying more ...

It’s that time of the year when you need to be thinking about next summer’s garden seeds. If you haven’t saved seed for next year, now would be a good time to start. What I’ve found is that the seed I ...