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Welcome to the pea family, commonly called the legume family, or as horticulturalist Catherine Kleier would say, the fabulous Fabaceae family!…

Bees are humming, birds are chirping and hummingbird feeders decorate eaves all over Flagstaff. Signs of spring abound, and for all you garden…

Moving to Flagstaff more than 20 years ago, I was initially too intimidated by stories of high elevation conditions to try vegetable gardening…

I like cats. When we were growing up, my brother Greg and I liked cats so much that we bought a pure-bred Siamese kitten, wrapped it in a card…

At the time my husband, Hugh, and I planted our first vegetable gardens in northern Arizona, we intentionally designed both of them to be in f…

As a member of Arbor Day Foundation, I learned in their October 2022 newsletter that over the 150-year history of Arbor Day and the 50-year hi…

Last week I wrote on plunger pollination and other strategies plants employ to achieve out-crossing, which mixes genes of two parent plants, r…

I believe most of us have a sense of what genetic engineering is all about â€� a method of inserting one or more genes of one species or individ…

After receiving less than 10 inches of snow for the entire winter period of December through February, it was such a blessing to have larger s…