+3 Local News Alert Top Story Gardening Etcetera: The fabulous Fabaceae family CINDY MURRAY Special to the Daily Sun 13 hrs ago Welcome to the pea family, commonly called the legume family, or as horticulturalist Catherine Kleier would say, the fabulous Fabaceae family!…
+2 Local News Alert Top Story Gardening Etcetera: Flagstaff Plant Sale and Garden Festival MARILYN CANTELOUPE Special to the Daily Sun May 15, 2025 Bees are humming, birds are chirping and hummingbird feeders decorate eaves all over Flagstaff. Signs of spring abound, and for all you garden…
Local News Alert Top Story Gardening Etcetera: Growing herbs is a tasty introduction to gardening LAURA HUENNEKE Special to the Daily Sun May 8, 2025 Moving to Flagstaff more than 20 years ago, I was initially too intimidated by stories of high elevation conditions to try vegetable gardening…
+3 Local News Alert Top Story Gardening Etcetera: The predator-prey relationship between cats and native birds CINDY MURRAY Special to the Daily Sun May 1, 2025 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…
Legislator proposes Alaska’s record-setting cabbage as official state vegetable +2By James Brooks Alaska Beacon Apr 24, 2025 Thirteen years ago, Palmer farmer Scott Robb set a world record with a 138-pound cabbage he took to Alaska State Fair.Â
+3 Local News Alert Top Story Gardening Etcetera: A dappled shade vegetable garden CINDY MURRAY Special to the Daily Sun Apr 24, 2025 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…
+3 Local News Alert Top Story Gardening Etcetera: Arbor Day is April 25 -- why we should celebrate CINDY MURRAY Special to the Daily Sun Apr 17, 2025 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…
+5 Trump funding freeze upends agricultural research at US universities Apr 17, 2025 By Karl Plume, P.J. Huffstutter
+3 Local News Alert Top Story Gardening Etcetera: More astounding pollination collaborations CINDY MURRAY Special to the Daily Sun Apr 10, 2025 Last week I wrote on plunger pollination and other strategies plants employ to achieve out-crossing, which mixes genes of two parent plants, r…
+3 Local News Alert Top Story Gardening Etcetera: Out-crossing achieved by wind, insect and plunger pollination -- say what? CINDY MURRAY Special to the Daily Sun Apr 3, 2025 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…