When life hands you lemons, you make lemonade. When an invasive plant takes root, it may be time to make some jam. Horticulturalists, chefs, foragers of wild foods, organic farmers and ...

A Calvin College sophomore and a Calvin biology professor recently received $3,000 each from the Undergraduate Research Grants for the Environment (URGE) program. Kelly Edwards, 19, a biology and ...

Q: I am writing in hopes that you can provide some advice about our Autumn Olive. We originally planted it to provide both food for the birds and definition for the entrance to our house. It has ...

FOR THE FIRST DAYS OF THE AUTUMN SEASON. LET’S HEAD TO GROW GREEN. WELCOME TO TODAY’S GROW AT GREEN. WE’RE AT THE HOME OF BARRY AND LINDA LEBLANC IN MERRIMACK. I’M JOINED BY STEF CIESZYNSKI OF UNH ...

Today, my focus turns to yet another invasive plant and one of the 10 most wanted in terms of problem plants in our region. Our six acres of land in Putnam is mostly pastures and fields with trees ...

Michael Gomola stood near the banks of Fairfield's Lake Mohegan, busily filling a six-quart plastic container with clusters of red, speckled berries. From time to time, curious dog-walkers on the park ...

There are several sources online for a red, pulpy autumn olive jam (Elaeagnus umbellata). We make this jam, but it does not keep for very long, separating into pockets of whitish goo and red pulp ...

The ground that my wife Ginny and I started with in 1976 to build our home was a bare cornstubble field entailing 10 acres at the back of my parents’ farm. A top priority was to establish wildlife ...

The insasive autumn olive shrub is among the plants that can no longer be sold in Ohio. Ohio has banned the sale of more than three dozen invasive plant species under new rules that took effect Sunday ...

A retired consulting forester is concerned about the expansive growth of an invasive plant in wilderness areas. Dennis Mash of Windber, Somerset County, is warning landowners about autumn olive, a ...