SANTA CRUZ — If you attended elementary school in the Santa Cruz area and maybe even beyond in the past four decades, there’s a good chance you learned about the world of nature and how to keep it ...

While it’s far less common than banana fruit, the flower of a particular banana species is edible and considered a delicacy. Preparing banana flower for cooking is a bit like unwrapping a present. You ...

Beautiful “string” and “trailing” plants add beauty and pizazz to container plantings, and in my next articles I will present a few of these exceptional, cascading strings and trailing plants until a ...

Bananas make up one of the largest tropical fruit export chains, with 20 million metric tons of bananas exported annually; a whopping 100 billion bananas are eaten globally each year. According to a ...