According to the World Health Organization, 88% of all countries are estimated to use traditional medicine; more than 40% of pharmaceutical formulations are based on natural products, and many ...

There is still a chill in the air but now is a great time to start thinking about what herbs to put in the garden. Herbs can be a great ...

This fragrant and delicious herb is easy to grow and attracts a particular kind of butterfly, along with other pollinating ...

Many common herbal plants, when grown in the garden, are drought tolerant. They are native to Mediterranean countries where summers are dry like our own. The biome or ecosystem of Mediterranean ...

Plants have been used as the source of drugs for long ages, and as of today, approximately 70,000 species have been screened for their potential utility as medicines. In recent decades, several ...

Chimpanzees in Uganda use plants to treat wounds and help injured companions, revealing potential roots of human medicine.

Weeding, fertilizing, and watering are all essential gardening techniques if you want to grow a large crop of healthy sweet ...

I enjoy seeing residents grow some of their own food. It can be as small as growing a tomato plant on their balcony or as big as growing five acres of fruit trees. The amount of food grown doesn’t ...

We had a customer at the Farmers’ Market that called us Spice Girls which is more fun than calling us Herb girls. We do carry spices, but we specialize in herbs. Why do we call them spice racks if ...

When a wild orangutan in Sumatra recently suffered a facial wound, apparently after fighting with another male, he did something that caught the attention of the scientists observing him. The animal ...