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Spruce up your gardening wardrobe for winter - A range of stylish hats, gloves, boots and jackets will make you look the part.

If your gardening wardrobe is looking tired, all bobbly fleeces and leaky wellies ... it is lined with Global Organic Textile Standard (GOTS) certified 100% cotton for enhanced breathability and is ...

Leaves have been browning and falling prematurely for weeks now due to late summer’s dry weather, but the real fall leaf drop will take hold in a few more weeks. Is the resulting blanketing of the ...

USDA grant funded research into all-natural menstrual products, not trans menstrual cycles If Your Time is short The grant funded research into the use of natural fibers, such as wool and cotton, in ...

Bulbs that bloom in the spring are planted into the ground in the fall. These include those that are technically corms, ...

First News sat down with Chevy Motswaledi, the Mahoning County OSU extension educator for agriculture and natural resources, ...

Most kids get adequate amounts of nutrients from a balanced diet, but under certain circumstances, children may need to take vitamin or mineral supplements. We spoke to registered dietitians Kelli ...

My landscaper prunes my shrubs every year about this time. I don’t like the way he prunes. My spring blooming shrubs have very few flowers. My neighbors have the same shrubs with lots of blo ...

This hybrid tomato variety may not be the best plant to save seeds from since the offspring grown from new seeds may have different characteristics than the parent plant. Saving tomato seeds is one ...

THE “age” of the dissolved organic matter in the deep sea relative to its origin in the euphotic zone has been, a matter of conjecture for some time 1–3. Photosynthetic fixation of carbon dioxide into ...