New high-tech products make small-scale home beer and wine production easy and fun

Their sweetness isn't just for spring. Peas thrive in cool weather too, adding a garden-fresh note to soups, salads and more through fall

Set out some seed and grab your field guide. Bird-watching is an easy, entertaining and educational activity for the whole family

Call it a fruit or a flower or a sweet vegetable. This hibiscus is so lovely, all that matters is calling it forth in your garden

For richness and beauty in the garden with less fuss than most flowers need, look to amazingly diverse foliage plants

The American goldfinch is a bright-in-the-summer visitor and one of the only vegetarian songbirds. Here's how to give them a healthy habitat

Before prime planting time, clean out the old garden, prepare for the new, and dream up ideas for fall flowers and veggies

Learn the edible plants that are popular and easy to grow in a backyard or container garden

If you like an abundance of plants — and visits from birds, bees and butterflies — this may be the style of yard for you

They stand strong in wind, feed wildlife and are easy to grow. But you may want to add these plants for their looks alone