I walk the trail searching for tiny green curls among the towering spruce trees popping up through the sphagnum moss. I’m looking for fiddleheads. Actually, the common name for the curly top of all ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Spring is in full swing, which means a Maine delicacy is in season: fiddleheads. They’re edible ostrich ferns that haven’t ...

mustard greens, and fenugreek, which are popular green vegetables in Indian cooking, there are some local and indigenous varieties too, that are loaded with health benefits but are not known widely in ...

For the shade gardener who wants to grow edible plants, this shadowy designation of how much—or how little—direct sunlight a space receives is often perceived as second best. “I have a garden, ...

As a kid, I remember watching time-lapse videos of a flower blooming or of the sun racing across the sky. Of course, things don't happen that way in nature with one possible exception: sprouting, ...

This story is free to read because readers choose to support LAist. If you find value in independent local reporting, make a donation to power our newsroom today. Just after the snow melts, but long ...

People venturing out onto Anchorage trails may have noticed tightly wound green coils emerging out of last year’s dead leaves. Some people are collecting them, and others are posting their findings on ...

The many trees showing new leaves is not a scene usually viewed as we begin May. What we are seeing is more likely in mid-month or even later. The greening of the woods is a phenomenon of every May, ...

When we go through this time of May, it is hard to not notice all the happenings among the trees. At the start of the month, they began opening leaves, the smaller trees first. This was quickly ...