Over 80% of homes in the United Kingdom have a garden or backyard. It’s vital to know how to fight off common pests like aphids, caterpillars, slugs, and rabbits, which can harm your plants. Instead ...

Mealworms can eat and absorb plastic, offering potential insights for reducing pollution. Plastic pollution pervades ecosystems worldwide and persists for decades. Could insects hold the key to ...

Eating microplastics did not appear to affect the insects' survival and growth. Plastic pollution occurs in every ecosystem on the planet and lingers for decades. Could insects be part of the ...

While this column is all about whole-plant ... you buy kale as a whole bunch or pre-chopped in a bag (this nearly always comes with stems still attached, which you still have to separate from the ...

Shake gently to mix. Spray to use. Some homemade bug sprays can help keep bugs away from your plants. However, others, like cinnamon essential oil, may cause damage to the plants themselves.

Gene editing is removing compounds that make foods like brussels sprouts and blackberries taste bitter. Here’s what that ...

Dec. 12, 2024 — A team analyzed the amino acids that affect the formation of spores in a bacterium that causes food poisoning, Clostridium perfringens, and identified serine as an amino acid ...

Let’s focus on one pillar though, the plant-slant. What is it ... it’s also not how we feel our best. How we eat, what we eat, and of course, when we eat, all matter. I’m most interested ...