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Winter can be hard on your yard and plants, but spring is the perfect time of year to refresh and revitalize your garden.
A popular and low-maintenance plant, the Peggy Martin rose, became a symbol of resilience after Hurricane Katrina. See why.
The fruit varies widely from orchard to orchard, but it can include Asian pears, cherries, persimmons, apples, peaches, and even pecans. Some orchard hosts funnel their fruit to food pantries. One ...
The state Department of Agriculture and Hawaii County Public Works Department have been working collaboratively since January ...
We’re not about four seasons, we’re about water and drought and heat and fire.”But why do the fagus and other plants colour ...
Hawai‘i Department of Agriculture and Hawai‘i County Public Works have collaborated since January to combat the coconut rhinoceros beetle by treating palm trees in the Kona airport area after its was ...
Dunham Apples is running Blossom Tours from Friday, April 18 to get a look at the apple orchards and tasting session for some of their ciders ...
Booker High student Nya Chambless pays tribute to a childhood friend with the short feature "My Guardian Angel." ...
For a brief period of a few weeks in the summer, male stag beetles (Lucanus cervus) fly in search of a mate. They use their spectacular jaws to wow the ladies and conduct dramatic duels with their ...
Almost three weeks ago, farmer Luca Gasperi woke suddenly from a Sunday afternoon nap, blasted by “a wall of smoke.” After he ...
Did you know that April is National Garden Month?   The official proclamation, declared by then-Secretary of Agriculture Thomas Vilsack in 2015, “celebrates the great American ...