As trees leafed out this spring, an international group of researchers headed to northern Wisconsin. There a unique, long-term study is revealing how air pollution […]

Every fall thousands of Americans head for the woods to see summer extinguished in a blaze of color. In Wisconsin they celebrate Colorama. In New England the visitors are called

Herbert F. Behnke of Shawano, Roger and Bill Borgwardt of Valders, Guy Gottschalk of Wisconsin Rapids, and Lloyd A. Holterman of Watertown will receive Honorary Recognition awards Nov. 1 from the College of Agricultural and Life Sciences at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

The late John C. Walker, an emeritus plant pathologist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, has received the Hall of Fame Award from the American Society for Horticultural Science. John Andrews, chairman of the Department of Plant Pathology, accepted the award for Walker, who died in 1994 at the age of 101.

Whether your interests run to heirloom varieties or the latest cultivars, you’ll find plants and techniques to improve your garden at Urban Horticulture Field Day, Saturday, Aug. 18 from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the West Madison Agricultural Research Station.

A short stroll along Linden Drive and down Henry Mall takes visitors past the sites of some of the biggest scientific achievements of the past century. Those locations are no longer anonymous, thanks to a series of 19 plaques that highlights accomplishments at the UW-Madison”s College of Agricultural and Life Sciences.

American consumers spent $9 billion on cut flowers in 1998, according to USDA statistics. But they might buy even more if they knew the flowers would last longer once they were cut.

Did your garden produce more than you could eat or give away last summer? Have you wondered what it would take to turn your vegetable-growing skills into a small business? The Wisconsin School for Beginning Market Gardeners, to be held Jan. 18 to Jan. 20 at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, can provide some answers.

Many crops, flowers and weeds don’t bloom their first summer. Known as biennials, these plants only flower and set seed after a prolonged period of near-freezing temperatures.

A special cart-building workshop for market gardeners will be offered Dec. 2 at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Workshop participants will each build and take home their own cart that can be used for a wide variety of tasks in the market garden or small farm, including transplanting, weeding, and harvesting. The workshop will run from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. and costs $100. Lunch will be provided.