Priced a pint of raspberries or a pound of asparagus lately? Fresh fruits and vegetables can seem like a luxury when skyrocketing grocery costs make it challenging to put even basic meals on the table. Here’s a novel way to stretch your food dollars: Go outdoors and forage. You’ll get fresh, delicious food for free, …
Gardening
Wisteria can become a maintenance problem when its woody stems reach gutters, roof edges, weak trellises, fences, drains, mature trees, or old brickwork. A DevonLive report warned garden owners about the cost of letting wisteria spread too freely around a home. The risk depends on where the vine is growing, what it is wrapping around, …
A Bay Area Red Flag Warning that covered the East Bay Hills and North Bay mountains turned a familiar homeowner checklist into a same-day fire-prevention priority: roofs, gutters, dry grass, deck corners, yard debris, phones, alerts, and evacuation plans. ABC7 Bay Area reported Thursday that the warning had firefighters and residents preparing for dangerous fire …
Most people think a pollinator garden requires tearing up their entire lawn, hiring a landscaper, or knowing the Latin names of plants. None of that is true. You can start with a five-by-five-foot patch of dirt, a bag of native seeds, and an afternoon, and by midsummer, you’ll have bees and butterflies visiting like clockwork. …
Every gardener who grew up watching a grandmother pull a warm tomato off the vine in July knows what a real tomato tastes like. That deep red, heavy, almost absurdly juicy fruit that you ate standing over the sink like it was a peach. And every one of those gardeners, at some point in their …
That gorgeous tree shading your back patio might be writing you a bill that you can’t afford. Foundation damage caused by tree roots is one of the most expensive and least visible threats to a home, and most homeowners never see it coming until doors stop closing, basement walls crack, or a home inspector delivers …
When FBI agents showed up at a Virginia home on May 18, 2026, they were not expecting to find a personal gold vault. What they seized from David Rush’s residence included over 300 gold bars worth approximately $40 million, along with $2 million in cash. For a man drawing a government salary, that is a …
Michigan landowners have until June 22 to register for a free invasive-species workshop at the MSU W.K. Kellogg Experimental Forest in Augusta. The June 24 event runs from 1:30 to 4 p.m. at 7060 N. 42nd Street and is aimed at southwest Michigan landowners and community members dealing with invasive plants on wooded lots, lake …
It’s the time of year when Spring blooms are bursting out, and gardeners’ fingers are itching to get back into the dirt. You may be looking at your green expanse of lawn with the vague notion that it could be something… more. And you’re absolutely right. Your yard can be so much more than grass. …
A self-taught gardener once grew 180 pounds of fresh produce, including 63 pounds of tomatoes, from containers on a single urban balcony in one season, writes Joe Gardener. Mark Ridsill Smith had no gardening background, a north-facing exposure, and a limited space that most people would write off entirely. If that doesn’t recalibrate what you …