Holi, the Festival of Colors, celebrates the arrival of spring and the end of the rabi crop harvest. It honors farmers' hard ...

Upper Cane island was once the home of one of the largest daffodil farms on the East Coast but the agricultural era is over ...

I remembered this experience vividly as I read Imani Perry’s new book, Black in Blues: How a Color Tells the Story of My People, which collects personal anecdotes, local and regional vignettes, and ...

The Conversation shares new research from University of Tennessee assistant professor Laura Russo showing that bees zero in ...

Borealis and Indigo Gem are his favorite Russian varieties. Currant shrubs are small and can fit anywhere, Silver says. They may be small but the plant produces lots of fruit within three years ...

They marketed their crops as “fancy vegetables ... Cane and probably Distant islands were likely indigo plantations producing the plants used to make blue dye. In the 1890s, Irish potatoes ...

US agrifoodtech startups raised $6.6 billion in 2024, up 14% from the prior year’s $5.8 billion, according to AgFunder’s ...

At the time, haint blue could be made only by cultivating and processing indigo plants, which was a labor-intensive, often dangerous endeavor undertaken by enslaved workers in antebellum America.

Known today as the “Black Belt,” the southeastern United States was once covered by an ancient sea—one that continues to ...