Mature okra plants start to flower ... but it is important to pick pods whenever they are ready. Don't wait for a single day to do a big okra harvest or you'll be disappointed with your yields.’ ...

Okra is divisive (largely because of its naturally slimy texture), but when you know how to cook with it, it can become a ...

Though seed-saving is common, the situation with this okra plant at this North Jersey farm is anything but. This is Bamyeh Falastinia okra, a crop native to the Palestinian territory of the West ...

Photographs by Amy Toensing On our nation’s richest lands, farmers grow corn and soybeans used ... A pair of freezers in the garage each contain a single layer of food, enough to fill bellies ...

Here we grow okra, we grow tomatillo, we grow collard greens. All of these foods are in high demand within our populations, and they are not going to get thrown out.” Gonzalo Gomez-Daza ...

Many people dislike okra because of its texture, which is often described unappealingly as mucilaginous or slimy. If the vegetable is cooked quickly, though, it doesn’t become slimy – instead ...

This weekend's yard jobs include harvesting the year-end veggies, saving seeds from the gardens and landscape, and planning to grow herbs inside over winter.

Sugar-derived polymers from plants remove these metals but often require ... researchers used sticky polysaccharide extracts from okra and aloe to remove microplastics from wastewater.