Have You Tried…?

Milkweed is popularly known as a favorite food of the monarch butterfly caterpillar.
Historically, farmers considered the native American plant a noxious weed. Today, however, common milkweed is being cultivated for its soft, silky floss, which is used commercially as a hypoallergenic filler in high-end pillows, comforters, and jacket linings.
Floss isn’t the only useable portion of [...]

Scapes are the flower stalks found on members of the Allium family (onions, leeks, chives, and garlic).
Garlic scapes, which only appear on hardneck varieties, are bright green and curl upward as they grow. They look a lot like a stiff curling green onion. Atop their  wild, snaking length there sits a small, closed little seed-like [...]

Giant Miscanthus, a tall, perennial grass, is the sterile cross between two plants, and a mule is the sterile result of a cross between a horse and a donkey.
The $1 million question is whether Giant Miscanthus, like a mule, can take on a heavy load - in this case, the job of freeing the U.S. [...]