When I started my medicinal herb garden, it felt like creating a natural medicine cabinet in my backyard. Each plant held the promise of a new remedy to explore. Choosing the right herbs not only ...

If you're cultivating plants with medicinal properties in your garden but haven't planted marsh mallow (Althaea officinalis L.), you're missing out on a versatile and surprisingly easy-to-grow ...

The insulin plant is a popular indoor medicinal plant known for its health benefits and attractive spiral leaves. Easy to ...

The San Diego Botanic Garden in Encinitas is leading an effort to turn plants into better medicines. KPBS sci-tech reporter Thomas Fudge explains what we already know about herbal remedies — and what ...

Join Jon Butts on this week’s Sustainable Living show to discuss how to grow simple, useful plants, with local growers Bobby Gopaul and Raleigh Barnes. Bobby grew up on his family’s farm in Trinadad ...

ENCINITAS, Calif. — About 20 to 30 years ago, the use of medicinal plant gardens for drug research slowed down in part because there was no living collection that could be used sustainably or ...

The company, which is currently working with about 80 farmers, is still working on its grading machinery and is in talks with a couple of companies, including one from abroad ...