The key to deterring snakes from your yard lies in making the landscape less inviting and eliminating food and water sources.

Plums are exotic, hardy, beautiful, phytonutrient-rich and best of all, local – so stock up, writes our permaculture ...

Fall is in the air, which may make you want to hang up the rake. But before you do, remember how hard you’ve worked to get to ...

Mushrooms are often overlooked as a potential crop for home gardeners, but in the right conditions, these edible fungi are ...

Haryana’s Pran Vayu Devta scheme pays annual pensions to trees over 75 to keep the state’s old giants in good health. Many ...

Late summer heat still hanging around, so review irrigation now as the best planting time of the year approaches ...

Our bee population is in decline but we can give them a helping hand with this simple trick, says Diarmuid Gavin ...

When organic wheat farmer Joel Huesby was growing up in the 1960s and 1970s in southeast Washington, many teens sought jobs in the region’s vegetable canneries. He, his wife, his ...

Meadow flowers that are dying back are ready for their autumn chop. Cut as close to ground as possible and remove any ...

This list of nine foods that contain more calcium than a glass of milk has some unexpected items, and some may be lurking ...

Former Minister of State Pippa Hackett writes that laws on hedgerow destruction need to be much stricter.

Occupying the ground floor of a former bank, Quod is one of Oxford’s most popular restaurants with the student and young ...