Haley Mast is a freelance writer, fact-checker, and small organic farmer in the Columbia River Gorge. She enjoys gardening, reporting on environmental topics, and spending her time outside ...

Although most gardeners aim to bring in a good fruit crop on their plants, there are a few situations where a barren plant is preferred. Some homeowners would love to find a way to keep certain ...

Mycelial fibers, the fibrous cells found in fruiting mushroom bodies, have gained momentum as a sustainable material for making faux-leather and packaging owing to their excellent formability.

Working with a strain of Myxococcus xanthus, Kaiser and his then graduate student Jerry Kuner had the idea that perhaps the medium was holding them back. They decided to abandon traditional, solid ...

Their great taste and their health benefits have made them one of the most popular fruits. The world market for strawberries, rich in antioxidants and vitamin C, was greater than 9 millon tons in 2016 ...

The ultimate objective of any kitchen gardener is to grow their own food. The reason for turning on the green thumb for any newly turned gardener is also more or less the same. One of the repeated ...

The social amoeba Dictyostelium discoideum has both solitary and communal life stages. As long as food is abundant, it lives on its own, but when food is scarce the amoebae seek one another out.

Wenlock Edge, Shropshire: Saproxylica, a hidden realm within the more familiar reality of trees, is home to these fungi It is springtime in Saproxylica. An alternate reality exists all around us: when ...