Cupboards at a soup kitchen near the White House will be spilling over for several days after a donation of fresh produce harvested Thursday from first lady Michelle Obama's vegetable garden.
Tens of thousands of people are expected to stream through the White House gates this weekend for a rare opportunity to see the fragrant roses, blue salvias and towering, decades-old trees that beautify the president's back yard.
Guest judges due to take turns in Abdul’s old “Idol” seat aren’t just filling in; they’re also helping Fox figure out how much the past panelist is worth.
The White House says its high-profile garden on the South Lawn has tested positive for lead although it is not at dangerous levels.
First lady Michelle Obama welcomed fifth-graders back to the White House garden Tuesday to pick the lettuce and peas they helped plant in the spring.
A woman planting tomatoes in Pennsylvania's Lehigh Valley said she was shocked when the was turning over the soil in her garden to plant tomatoes and found cat paws sticking out. Patricia Lutz called police after making the discovery on Thursday at her home. A state trooper responded and dug up the rest of the cat.
A county sheriff in northern Ohio who banned pancakes from the jail menu to cut costs has found another way to save: He's having the inmates grow their own food.
Officials say a Fort Smith man digging in his garden unearthed a Civil War-era cannonball that's possibly still explosive. The unidentified man was tending to his garden Tuesday at his home when he found the rusted, 4-inch-diameter iron ball.
First lady Michelle Obama planted the first fruit and vegetable seedlings in the new White House garden Thursday, assisted by a group of eager fifth-graders who tend to a similar garden at their school.
Hoe in hand, Kate Kinne works her field on a cold March day.
California's first lady, Maria Shriver, is taking a page from first lady Michelle Obama in announcing plans for an edible garden on the grounds of the state Capitol.
I wasn’t too surprised when many readers responded enthusiastically to about victory gardens, the home-gardening movement that took hold in America during World War II for both patriotic and practical reasons. “Victory gardens are great!” Jo Kurtz wrote from Princeton, Idaho. “Let’s start with the White House!”
Twenty-six elementary schoolchildren wielded shovels, rakes, pitchforks and wheelbarrows to help first lady Michelle Obama break ground on the first day of spring for a produce and herb garden on the White House grounds.
Louisville junior guard Jerry Smith is majoring in communications, but he's proving to be pretty good at math.
Spring is just around the proverbial corner, which means it’s none too early to start planning (and even planting) a garden. Flowers are pretty and smell nice, but I’m talking about something more practical — saving money in these challenging times by growing your own food.
For generations, the lawn at Civic Center Plaza was a lush, quarter-acre welcome mat outside City Hall, and a frequent staging ground for demonstrations.
Romanian media say a man was rearing a lion in his back garden until neighbors decided they had heard enough roaring and called police.
Never-before-seen photos have surfaced of Elvis Presley rocking Madison Square Garden in all his jumpsuited glory. The images were taken in 1972 by George Kalinsky, the official photographer of the famed arena, the singer's estate said Wednesday.
The NHL violated antitrust laws and is acting like "an illegal cartel" by monopolizing control of team promotions, Madison Square Garden claimed in a lawsuit Friday.
A 71-year-old woman was arrested on drug charges after a chest-high marijuana plant was found in her yard, a plant she said was meant to keep animals away from her garden.
Sheriff's deputies evicted people from an urban community garden to make room for a warehouse Tuesday, touching off a furious protest in which actress Daryl Hannah and others climbed into a walnut tree or chained themselves to concrete-filled barrels. More than 40 people were arrested.
Famous tree-sitter Julia "Butterfly" Hill came down to earth Saturday at an urban garden that is under threat of development. Hill ended 19 days aloft in a walnut tree and also broke a 26-day water-only fast.
Hundreds of urban farmers battling to hold onto a small patch of land in the middle of the city's gritty warehouse district got a shot of celebrity star power Thursday when actor Danny Glover exhorted them to ignore an eviction order and stay put.
Giving up smoking is tough, but by rejecting an industry that is harming people and planet in the name of profit, you will be contributing to a healthier you and to a healthier world. Good luck to all the potential ex-smokers out there….you can do it!
Members of a small community near the northern German city of Lübeck have filed a lawsuit against Irish budget airline Ryanair after a low-flying plane allegedly put an 82-year-old woman in the hospital.
As the author of "The Green Gardener's Guide," I've written the book on essential ways to green your garden while protecting the planet.
This should be done, all over the world.
Gardener Mariusz Lodkowski was arrested when neighbours spotted him burying his wife in his vegetable patch in the couple's back garden.
This is a Christmas Flower? I've heard of them, but never had one...Does anyone know anything about these flowers and how I should go about planting them?
This should be an easy question for everyone because we all have our favourite room which we love to cosy-up in. Please tell us which one it is, and the reasons why.
Part of being a good neighbour is keeping an eye on someone's house or watering the plants while they're away.
Hundreds of fish have died and the lives of dozens of eels and turtles have been threatened apparently after an outbreak of algae in the duck pond at Centennial Park.
With twenty-plus mile per hour winds, pouring rain, horizontally falling pea sized hail, thunder and lightning, even my Big Green Egg couldn't lure me outside today.
The true cost of food shouldn't be measured in dollars and cents.
With a mysterious vandal striking in the dead of night to destroy carrots, cabbages and other vegetables due to be entered in a major gardening show, it sounds like a case for Wallace and Gromit.
Are you desperate to use up the overflow supply of zucchini issuing forth from your garden? Have you questioned the reasoning behind planting two dozen husky plants, each of which is, like the brooms in The Sorcerer's Apprentice, threatening to drown you in little green veggies? …
For the White House chef, serving homegrown vegetables straight from the garden is just like preparing food in her native Philippines - healthy and simple.
For the White House chef, serving homegrown vegetables straight from the garden is just like preparing food in her native Philippines - healthy and simple.
Dear Green Bean Vines, Why do you do this to me?
Right about now is the proper time I begin to devote some thoughts towards next Spring. Thoughts and plans for the outside plants and flowers, and some thoughts for the vegetable garden.
Two Lexington, Kentucky brothers do gardening and sell their produce to neighborhood residents via a wagon.
Backyard bird watching is a fairly simple exercise. Provide enough food, water and cover, and birds will come flocking. Playing favorites, though, calls for using the right kinds of incentives.
As a sustainable-food aficionado, my attitude toward Whole Foods and other national chains offering organic food changes based on the available alternatives.
Most gardens grow into beautiful things when they are nurtured and well-maintained.
Zucchini is notorious for producing way more fruit than most people would ever want to eat. Here are some tips for handling the glut of home grown goodness.
How do you get out there to take care of the plants? I asked. "I just open the window and jump out." Not many gardeners will jump out a second floor window to water their organic garden, but Kevin Mackey at the Springfield Brewing Company does almost everyday.
The articles gives the premise that plants are self aware and may use this to ward off plant enemies.