Growing fava beans is like four crops in one: flavorful fresh pods, both fresh and dry beans, and –surprise! – delicious ...

October was a busy month for the Beckhams. Victoria’s new documentary dropped and made headlines for her £70,000-a-year office plant habit, her Paris runway show drew the family to the front row and ...

Fava beans planted in late summer will be ready to harvest in the late fall or can be used as a cover crop. Question: I would like to try growing fava beans but don’t know much about them. I’ve only ...

Fava beans are a cool-season, fast-growing annual and the only cold-hardy bean. As fava beans are cold hardy, seed can be sown in the garden now; fava beans can also be a fall-planted crop that will ...

harvested fava beans on a wooden table with plants in the background blurred - Kenan TALAS/Shutterstock Fava beans are often planted in the fall as a cover crop to help replenish the soil's nitrogen ...

Haley Mast is a freelance writer, fact-checker, and small organic farmer in the Columbia River Gorge. She enjoys gardening, reporting on environmental topics, and spending her time outside ...

Now that we’re in March, the first fava beans of the new season, grown in the warmer parts of California, start arriving in our markets. Within a few weeks locally grown favas will follow in a torrent ...

October naturally feels like the end of a growing season. As the leaves fall from the trees and the temperatures drop many growers start putting their plots to bed for the year. However, it shouldn’t ...

While many parts of the garden are starting to wind down for the cooler autumn weather, there's one job you can do now to get a head start on next year. Take advantage of the bare soil in your ...

In September, many of us are cleaning up the garden, removing dead plants, and gathering the last of the summer harvest. It's true that it's not as common to have a fall garden, and that's truly a ...

Autumn has firmly arrived, bringing with it chillier temperatures and more rain. However, regardless of what conditions Mother Nature throws at us, there is still time to get your last gardening jobs ...