The Swiss botanist Gaspard Bauhin was born in Basel in 1560, and he dedicated his life to obsessively cataloguing the vegetable world. To present-day historians, he’s notable primarily for his ...

Hello Mid-Ohio Valley gardeners and farmers! Autumn is just around the corner. Fall is a good time to plant turnips, kale and rutabagas. Many of you may be unfamiliar with the rutabaga (Brassica napus ...

(For details on growing many other vegetables and fruits, visit our Crop at a Glance collection page.) Growing turnips and rutabagas is easy, and these earthy-tasting vegetables are among the most ...

A couple of years ago I was introduced to pasties. I had in my mind it was some kind of a pastry, as in sweet. To my surprise it was a savory flaky pastry pocket filled with beef and vegetables, and ...

If you have ever been served haggis on Robbie Burns day or any other, you likely ate mashed “neeps and tatties” along with it. Neeps, also known as tumshies or swedes, are known to North Americans by ...

Researchers at Michigan State University are working to turn the rutabaga into an oil-producing powerhouse that could make the turnip-like vegetable a better source of biofuel than other food crops.

DETROIT -- Researchers at Michigan State University are working to turn the rutabaga into an oil-producing powerhouse that could make the turnip-like vegetable a better source of biofuel than other ...

KEENE — It was a solid, smashed rutabaga hit. In food, in story and even in a rutabaga ballad, the lowly root crop turned out to be a worthy cause for celebration. The first-ever Great Adirondack ...