Are you thinking about remodeling your drab kitchen? Be warned: Remodeling projects will not always fill your pockets with cash when your home sells. In fact, you might not recoup the entire cost of the project.    
 

A farmers market is a way people can purchase fresh produce and other
products from local farmers and food vendors. According to the United States Department of Agriculture, about 7,175 farmers markets operate in the country. This type of market allows consumers to connect directly with locally grown food and the farmers who produce that food.

Seeding and sodding both have their merits and limitations. Below, find out what you need to know about selecting the right method of turf establishment.

You may have heard the acronym CSA before, but if you’re like many people, you may not be certain what it is. Over the past two decades, community supported agriculture has gained in popularity — and for good reason. Find out all about CSAs and how you can sign up for this way to buy local, fresh, heirloom, unusual and seasonal produce.

As the weather warms up, it’s important to remember that pets need a helping hand to beat the heat and have a happy and healthy summer.

Time to liven up the hearth with new hues. Check out some of our favorite pairings.

In Japan, gardening is more than plants and their care; it's a philosophy. Each element of the garden represents an ideal, a physical representation of a spiritual pursuit.

You may think you’re making the environmentally responsible choice when you request paper instead of plastic bags in the supermarket. But you would be wrong.

Ann Nika of Springfield, Ill., has a spring salad recipe that she has been making for get-togethers for more than 10 years. “It is always a favorite with my family and friends,” she said about Penne, Spinach, Asparagus and Cashew Salad.

Here’s the scoop on sundaes: They don’t have to be boring. The best-seller at a Springfield Baskin-Robbins remains the classic hot fudge sundae. But gaining in popularity are “layered” premium sundaes. Click inside for some recipes you can try tonight!

A graceful waterfall splashes into a cool pond stocked with silver and orange koi. Stone lanterns light a winding path to a charming teahouse through a fantasy forest of trees trimmed to resemble puffy clouds, mimicking their bonsai brethren.

Q: We still haven't decided on our countertops yet since that step is over a year away. Is there a sink you can recommend that will work with any countertop that we may pick out? This information will be very helpful. -- Jane, Rhode Island

Decades ago, while designing home sites for orchard farmers in California's Sacramento Valley, I came upon one grove of heirloom white-flesh peaches.

Samuel Adams includes a lesson in India pale ales in its new IPA Hop-ology variety 12-pack.

Are you guilty of falling short of a true spring clean? The tendency this time of year is to focus on physical clutter, but the kind you can't see -- emotional clutter -- is just as important to tackle. By emotional clutter we mean all those repressed, suppressed and unexpressed emotions and old beliefs that are keeping you stuck, rooted in a spot that probably no longer represents who you are or what you are capable of.

Many find it hard to select the right combination of colors for their home. A good place to start the selection is to look at the values of the colors Mother Nature gives us. After all, she is great with color.

Like humans, plants have to cope not only with the heat but also with energy-sapping humidity, wind and drought. They grow more slowly, their leaves fade, wind batters them and, in areas of high humidity, they're prone to insects and disease. High nighttime temperatures don't let plants recover from heat stress.

The concept of cool roofs is thrown around a lot these days. U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu suggested that painting roofs white, along with making paving more reflective, would reduce global warming as much as taking every car in the world off the road for 11 years. Yes, he was being hyperbolic, but he does have a point. Dark roofs absorb the sun's heat, and in hot climates, a lighter colored roof can cut down on the amount of air conditioning needed.

Like much of Florida’s Gulf Coast, the white-sand shoreline of Clearwater Beach is bustling with water activities such as parasailing, jet skiing, wind surfing, stand-up paddle boarding and good old-fashioned sunset sailing. It is springtime; the air is perfect, the sun shines all day and sets with a magical glow each evening — and there is little humidity this time of year.

At our garden center, customers often ask why we can’t simply use common names for the plants we sell — those scientific botanical names seem so complicated to pronounce and remember!