gardening

Home canning season is here: Follow safe practices to avoid botulism and other foodborne illnesses

As gardens begin producing tomatoes, green beans, peppers and other summer favorites, many home cooks are preparing to preserve their harvest through canning. Home canning can be a safe and

By News Desk

/ 15 Jun 2026

Home canning season is here: Follow safe practices to avoid botulism and other foodborne illnesses

Safe methods for canning and garden produce preservation for novices

CoMMentary If you’re anything like me, the COVID-19 pandemic has left you with a lot of extra time around the house. For me and many others, this has

By Jonan Pilet

/ 5 Aug 2020

Safe methods for canning and garden produce preservation for novices

Cook your compost to the same temperature as your burgers

Opinion Editor’s note: Each Spring, attorneys Bill Marler and Denis Stearns teach a Food Safety Litigation course in the LL.M. Program in Agricultural and Food Law at the

By Guest Contributor

/ 29 Jun 2020

Cook your compost to the same temperature as your burgers

Study finds variation of lead uptake in fruits, veggies; risk highest for children

Researchers have suggested guidance in the United Kingdom should be revised because it does not recognize how lead is stored in soil and transferred to vegetables. Recent years have seen

By News Desk

/ 6 Jul 2019

Study finds variation of lead uptake in fruits, veggies; risk highest for children

Plant food safety in school and other youth gardens; don’t miss those important teaching moments

A Garden for Every Child. Every Child in a Garden.” U.S. slogan for WWI youth gardening program Spring is almost over, and with summer looming, people’s thoughts are

By Cookson Beecher

/ 30 May 2019

Plant food safety in school and other youth gardens; don’t miss those important teaching moments

Planting for the local food bank? Take care to do it right

This time of year people who enjoy gardening are thinking about and planning what they will be growing this spring, summer and fall. I know this because I am one

By Michigan State University Extension

/ 2 Mar 2017

South Dakota Sees Raw Milk Growing in the Garden

The bounty of a home garden is for sharing with family and friends, and South Dakotans are soon going to be asked to think of raw milk in much the

By News Desk

/ 8 Jul 2013

What's in Your Compost?

For home gardeners, spring is a busy time of year and there’s never a tomato with more flavor than one grown to full ripeness on the vine. But there

By Trina Wood

/ 3 Apr 2013

Garden Visitor Can Be Deadly If Eaten

In the form of a beguiling tall stranger, death lurked in my garden last year. This spring, it reappeared, but this time much closer to the house. I only discovered

By Cookson Beecher

/ 4 Jun 2012

Georgia Lawmakers Want People to Grow Their Own Food

In 1864, when Union Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman conducted his famous March to the Sea, splitting George apart like a ripe peach, his troops lived totally off the bounty of

By Dan Flynn

/ 2 Feb 2012

Bringing in a Safe Harvest

As gardeners bring fresh produce indoors, questions of food safety may not be on their minds. Here is the hard-earned product of carefully nursed seedlings, plenty of mulching, watering

By Amy Halloran

/ 22 Aug 2011

Veggie Garden Gets Michigan Couple Into Trouble

A city planner in Oak Park, Michigan apparently did not get the memo about gardens being a good thing. The Oak Park official wants to put residents Jason and Julie

By Dan Flynn

/ 11 Jul 2011

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gardening

Home canning season is here: Follow safe practices to avoid botulism and other foodborne illnesses

Safe methods for canning and garden produce preservation for novices

Cook your compost to the same temperature as your burgers

Study finds variation of lead uptake in fruits, veggies; risk highest for children

Plant food safety in school and other youth gardens; don’t miss those important teaching moments

Planting for the local food bank? Take care to do it right

South Dakota Sees Raw Milk Growing in the Garden

What's in Your Compost?

Garden Visitor Can Be Deadly If Eaten

Georgia Lawmakers Want People to Grow Their Own Food

Bringing in a Safe Harvest

Veggie Garden Gets Michigan Couple Into Trouble

Your Support Protects Public Health