Now, after several years working as a professional gardener, I have planted all sorts of grasses, but I remain a little in awe of the shade-tolerant Japanese forest grass, or Hako ...

If you're looking to create a low-maintenance, self-sustaining ecosystem in your backyard with edible plants, then forest garden ideas could be something to consider. Especially if your space is ...

Food forests use every inch of soil and sunlight to create a closed-loop sustainable system for growing your favorite foods.

Biodiversity isn’t just about what’s growing in the forest, but also how it’s growing. Forests with a wide range of tree ...

If you walk through a forest and look down, you might think you're stepping on dead leaves, twigs and soil. In reality, ...

Poodle-dog bush, a pretty but dangerous plant, is growing in parts of the Angeles National Forest hit by recent wildfires. Hairs covering the stems, leaves and flowers have glands that secrete a ...

Most plants in a food forest are perennials, meaning they produce food year after year without needing to be replanted.

Love flowers but think your garden doesn't get enough sun? Here are a few shade flowers that grow happily despite lack of abundant direct sunlight.

We visited a very unique community garden in Virginia, MN called a Food Forest. A food forest is a large perennial garden made up of edible plants, bushes and trees ...

What is forest farming? Forest farming is a way to put forested areas on your property to good use by growing edible and medicinal plants that prefer wooded settings to traditional garden plots.

Plants growing at the bottom of sinkholes in China's Dashiwei Tiankeng Group don't take up as much carbon as surface plants do, but they have much higher levels of nutrients in their tissues.

The presence of this plant in a deciduous forest indicates that much of the original ground flora is intact. Need a break? Play the USA TODAY Daily Crossword Puzzle.