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How to Cook With 9 Different Types of Basil in Recipes
Most of us know flowery Genovese and Italian sweet basils—think pesto—but the world of basil offers huge diversity,...

School Gardens Boost Learning and Health for Students
Higher test scores, improved learning, healthier eating habits—you can’t go wrong with a school garden, as dozens of...

Virtual Farmstands Offer Local Farmers' Market Products Online
A new crop of online farmstands is providing family farms and small-scale food vendors with an aggregated venue to sell...

How to Eat Well by Color
Find out the health benefits of including colorful fruits and vegetables in your diet. In the last couple of...

New Apple Varieties
In autumn, orchards swell with perfectly ripe, color-splashed apples. And though they come in a host of tasty varieties...

Trend Watch: Crop Mobs
Nothing builds ties like pulling potatoes with your neighbors. That’s exactly what a few North Carolina farmers...

Food Safety at Farmers' Markets
In many places the delicious fare made for farmers’ markets—cooked at home rather than in a licensed, inspected...

Easy Foods to Grow Without a Garden
Learn which 5 foods you can grow in small spaces. I have never had a garden. For the past several years I’ve lived...

Pop-Up Harvest Dinners
The latest incarnation of the farm-to-table movement redefines what it means to eat fresh, seasonal and local food by...

The Science Behind Genetically Engineered Salmon
To make the AquAdvantage transgenic salmon, scientists select two sequences of DNA—one from a Pacific chinook salmon,...

EatingWell's Guide for How to Start a Kitchen Garden
A Plan My garden plan helped me with everything from how to space my plants to when to put them in the ground and where...

Fresh Recipes from EatingWell’s Garden
Late in February, I declared to my husband, Dan, that I was done with winter. I longed for the first tender leaves of...

How to Grow Microgreens
Microgreens, the first shoots of plants like collard greens, beet greens and mustard greens, are prized by chefs for...

Delicious Ways to Cook with Lemons
I know what to do with bushels of zucchini and a cellar full of turnips, but when life gave me loads of lemons I was...

Bringing Back Heirloom Apples
Red Delicious, Granny Smith, McIntosh: these names are so familiar because only 11 varieties represent 90 percent of...

Picnicing at an Urban Farm
Traffic across the railroad tracks in Burlington, Vermont is brisk on summer Thursday afternoons as cyclists, walkers...

Farmers' Markets at Rock Concerts
More than 40,000 Phishheads arrived at the foot of southern California’s Little San Bernardino Mountains for a 3-day...

5 Heirloom Tomatoes To Seek Out This Summer

13 Easy-to-Grow Vegetables and Herbs
Eat and enjoy these tasty vegetables and herbs from your kitchen garden. Homegrown vegetables and herbs bring fresh...

How To Start a Vegetable Garden
Have you always wanted to try growing your own food? It’s a great choice because you can grow organic produce, save...

Meet the Farmer: Hawaii Pineapple Farmer Ken Love
Hawaii’s “Pineapple Island,” Lana’i, was where I first visited a pineapple field. It was a sultry day. The heat rose...

Giving Back: A Harvest Dinner
Alice Waters is not often speechless. The woman who has been at the forefront of the local food revolution, founded one...