Just a little over a year ago, I launched a From the Farm social media page on Facebook to allow added interaction with readers. With 6,000 followers and growing, it provides one more communication ...

Editor’s note: Once a month OSU Extension Master Gardener Volunteers in Franklin County profile a plant that occurs naturally in central Ohio. Not many trees have both beautiful fall color in several ...

Often overlooked in spring, sassafras trees in Southeast Missouri bear baseball-sized flower clusters and later light up country roads with red, orange and yellow autumn leaves.

Sassafras Known to most of the world as an ingredient in root beer, this plant’s most important use in south Louisiana may be for filé, a powder made from sassafras leaves to thicken gumbo. But its ...

Sassafras (sassafras albidum) is a whimsical understory tree that is common all along the Appalachian Mountains. Sassafras trees are abundant in Indiana County, including throughout White’s Woods and ...