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For the first time, scientists have grown plants in soil from the moon collected by NASA’s Apollo astronauts.

A stinky but handsome and widely popular landscape tree has become an aggressive invader.

The organic food industry is a booming business. U.S. organic sales surged in 2020 by 12.4% to $61.9 billion.

Here’s everything you need to know about composting at home.

Orchid flowers can last for weeks. Once the flowers die, it’s tempting to toss the plant. But you can get that $10 orchid to bloom again. Just be patient. It might take a year. The main tip for growing orchids is not to overwater them.

The cost to operate community gardens in Chicago is getting more expensive.  The result is more difficulty accessing water and more abandoned garden plots, according to the gardeners. Community gardeners have often relied on city hydrants on a temporary basis to provide water for their vegetables.  The process required a city permit that typically cost several hundred dollars. This...

With nearly 1,000 community gardens across the city, Chicago’s new restrictive rules on watering have caused difficulty in for gardeners. NBC 5’s Chris Coffey reports.

Chicago Park District has partnered with the Garfield Park Conservatory to sell the flowers that would have been planted in gardens across the city. The District was unable to hire seasonal staff and contractors that would normally plant and care for these flowers in the summer due to the coronavirus pandemic. To make sure that the flowers don’t go...