The Low Down on Dirt

If you love gardening, but want to try something different than the regular vegetables, you may like planting summer cover crops. Cover crops (“green manure”), although often grown in the winter, have many benefits as [ … ]

Most potatoes we eat today have 100 percent less vitamin A than potatoes did in the 1950s. One hundred percent. That may sound unbelievable, but it doesn’t end there. An analysis of nutritional records done [ … ]

The bright, lip-puckering sourness of lemons? That’s the result of acid. So is the cutting tang of vinegar and the slightly sharp flavor of soda. In each case, your tongue is detecting an abundance of hydrogen [ … ]