When Julie Dawson starts making farm visits, she may face a problem many of her fellow UW-Madison agricultural extension specialists don’t: battling city traffic and […]

The Horticulture Society of UW-Madison is holding its annual Fall Plant Sale Fundraiser Friday through Sunday at the Stock Pavilion, 1575 Linden Dr., next to […]

In the small Peruvian village of Puno, farmers hedge their bets. Located 12,000 feet above sea level, on the side of an Andean mountain, Puno […]

As a wicker basket containing old, faded seed packets made its way around the room, Tom Stearns asked each person to grab a packet and […]

On Thursday and Friday of last week, more than 3,500 people visited the D.C. Smith Greenhouse’s corpse flower, now named “Dennis,” to experience the impressive […]

The Titan Arum plant, or corpse flower, in the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s D.C. Smith Greenhouse is set to bloom this week. The mature flower of […]

Advances in biotechnology such as DNA sequencing have helped speed the pace of plant breeding in many food crops, but applying these tools to the […]

This video, which played on the Big Ten Network in early June, describes an innovative program to move surplus vegetables that were being left to […]

Wisconsin has hundreds of diversified, fresh market vegetable operations, but there’s one on the outskirts of Franklin that’s in a class by itself. Most of the state’s […]