I like to save one sweet potato from the autumn garden and suspend it in a hanging planter with enough water and a little fertilizer touching the bottom. Eventually the tuber produces vines with ...

This week in the paper I wrote about Oriana Kruszewski a one-woman Johnny Asian-pear-seed who grows over 20 varieties of the fruit in her Skokie backyard. Unsurprisingly I wound up with quite a few ...

My father, of blessed memory, used to send us Harry & David pears every year. So it feels sweet, both literally and figuratively, when a box appears on our doorstep. As soon as they arrive, I begin ...