vegetables

Pumpkin patch in Bryan, Texas, on Sept. 30, 2021, in San Antonio. (Laura McKenzie/Texas A&M AgriLife Marketing and Communications)
Home and Family, Horticulture, Horticulture, Outdoors

It’s science: Why a pumpkin is actually a fruit

People typically consider something as either a fruit or a vegetable based on how they eat it rather than how it grows. Read More

Person hand putting a tray with banana slices into a food dehydrator machine. (iStock │ #1332723385 - Ekaterina79)
Food Safety, Home and Family

Dehydrated foods gaining in popularity

Home and Family, Recipes

The season of sensational salads 



Farmer woman holding wooden box full of fresh raw vegetables (Photo: iStock - Milan Krasula)

September is National Fruits and Veggies month

How to help your chickens beat the heat 

Learn what to look for and how to maintain backyard gardens, porch plants, and landscapes during the summer months. (Photo by Ken Johnson, Illinois Extension)

Tips for getting landscape plants through summer

Hand pollination flower with brush. (iStock │ #133833585 - DLeonis)

In the garden: Why is my crop not producing fruit?

Longfellow Elementary second-grader Carmella Lopez and her friends learned more about swine and how they are raised at the swine session during the AgSplosion Field Day in Scottsbluff. (Photo courtesy of Chabella Guzman.)

Students explore agriculture at annual AgSplosion Field Day

Woman looking receipt from a supermarket. (iStock │ #1386010216 - LordHenriVoton)

Money-saving ideas for buying groceries, cooking at home

  • By Pat Melgares │ K-State Research and Extension news service
Get a head start on the gardening season by planting vegetable and flower seeds indoors. (Photo by University of Missouri Extension field horticulturist Donna Aufdenberg.)

Plant now for seeds of success

Straw bale gardening in a vegetable garden. (iStock │ #467839666 - debibishop)

Overcome poor soil, lack of space with straw bale gardening