Growing over 3 feet tall, perennial duck potato, or Sagittaria latifolia, has large fleshy leaves mostly shaped like arrowheads, highly variable in size. Both the leaves and flowering stalks are 2 ...

Fish Creek Park, a small City and Borough of Juneau park at the mouth of Fish Creek, is the site of intensive fishing and waterfowl hunting in season. But on a quiet, rainy day in September, we set ...

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This harvest came 3,000 years too late. Hundreds of blackened potatoes were pulled out of the ground at a prehistoric garden in British Columbia, Canada. Dating back to 3,800 years before the present, ...

When we talk about early gardening in North America, most people think about the “three sisters” system of farming, in which indigenous people interplanted corn, beans and squash. But there were other ...