It's officially the busiest harvesting season and there are plenty of homegrown goods to collect from your fruit and vegetable patch this month. It's the perfect opportunity to gather some ingredients ...

Cultivating and caring for edible plants is a rewarding endeavor that many gardeners look forward to every season. To enhance your gardening experience, consider planting crops that can be harvested ...

Here in southeastern Michigan, we have just about enough time for a fall crop of leaf lettuce. About four weeks from the average first frost of autumn is a good approximation of the last chance to ...

Replacing your entire grocery list with homegrown food is an overwhelming prospect. But tending to a few easy-to-grow crops? Well, that’s more manageable. Whether you’re tired of spending more on a ...

Heads of fresh lettuce grow in rows in a backyard garden. - Shine Like Stars/Shutterstock Did you know lettuce can give you multiple harvests? It all comes down to how you cut it. Lettuce — such as ...

With the latter portion of August (somehow) upon us, many may soon be turning to their vegetable gardens, eager to sow fall salad greens and root vegetables. With soils still warm but the weather ...

Redford Union Schools launched a hydroponics program allowing students to grow lettuce in their classrooms. Students are involved in the entire process from planting seeds to harvesting and delivering ...

When farm crops are harvested, there is often food left in the fields. That's where gleaners come in — gathering lettuce, potatoes and other crops that are still good and giving them to needy people.