Over the past decade, heirloom crops have made an incredible comeback, with growers embracing different varieties of tomatoes, beans, potatoes, carrots, apples and more. Now, a small movement is ...

You love collard greens, but did you know there are so many varieties to love? And so many ways to love them? Like many vegetables, collards are mostly sold as just plain “collards” at the grocery ...

One year ago, Congress defunded public media. Now that we're 100% community funded, please become a sustaining member or increase your existing membership today. Ira Wallace ambles around the butcher ...

DeZha Smith, at 21-year-old farmer from north St. Louis, surveys dozens of collard green plants at the Jackie Joyner-Kersee Center in East St. Louis, Ill. The plants are part of a study examining the ...

MINERAL, Va — Acorn Community is is a 72-acre certified organic farm. Founding member Ira Wallace says it's a place where all the members live equally among each other, benefitting from their seed ...

Collard greens at the grocery store tend to be monotonous, making up rows and rows of wide leafy bundles. But in reality, there are dozens of varieties of the staple vegetable. The Jernigan Yellow ...

Find out how to grow collard greens, a classic Southern vegetable that thrives in cool weather. Collard greens do best when grown in an area that receives full to partial sun. These leafy greens are ...

Q: My sister asked if I’ve ever heard of purple tree collards, and if they would grow in North Dakota. I told her I knew who to ask! Do they grow here, are they a perennial, and how do you start them?

These collards have names: Meet "Big Daddy Greasy Green" and "Granny Hobbs" Wallace, 73, is doing a lot of the work as part of a group of seed savers, farmers, activists and academics, known ...

Ira Wallace ambles around the butcher block countertop in the kitchen she shares with a community of farmers in central Virginia. She has separated a single leaf from the large baskets of unusual, ...