I come from a family of fruit growers. My maternal grandfather, a minister raised in Texas but retired in California, kept an extensive garden where he grew guavas, plums, tomatoes, and dozens of ...

The Columbia Center for Urban Agriculture is hosting a Farm Your Yard Field Day event June 22 at Columbia's Agriculture Park. Billy Polansky, executive director for CCUA, said the field day is a good ...

Last winter’s annual count of eastern monarch butterflies was the second-lowest on record. Many of the roughly 4,000 wild bee species native to North America are also imperiled. Replacement of habitat ...

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• Angel Black dreamed of growing food in her Culver City backyard, but her gardens always failed. • The problem: a lawn that monopolized the backyard’s sunny spots, leaving the food-growing areas ...

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Carter Hick, an Olympia based lawyer, has been farming a small plot of land he doesn’t own in northwest Thurston County. He leased it in March so he could sow the seeds of a passion project. “It was ...