There is an area in the garden that I will not be able to plant this year. Instead of letting it stay fallow and grow weeds, I planted buckwheat. It's something I've done through the years whenever ...

DOUGLAS COUNTY, Nev. (News 4 & Fox 11) — A company planning to build a lithium and boron mine in central Nevada says its efforts to grow an endangered wildflower have been successful so far, but ...

Rhyolite Ridge in Nevada is one of the only two major known global deposits of lithium-boron. It’s also the location of the only known population of the Tiehm’s buckwheat plant, a rare wildflower ...

Planting new plants in your yard or garden takes a bit of planning outside of the aesthetics you're hoping to achieve. Native plants are generally encouraged for better ecosystem viability, and it's ...

As the climate changes, bringing more heat and heavier storms, conditions are getting tougher for farmers. At the University of New Hampshire, researchers are looking into a new crop – a special type ...

The agricultural term for ending a cover crop is “terminating a crop.” A few days ago, I terminated my buckwheat cover crop by cutting it down. I was a little late. The ideal time to terminate a ...

A botanist gently strokes the pollen of endangered wildflowers with a paintbrush as she tries to reenact nature inside a small greenhouse in the shadow of the Sierra Nevada. Australia-based Ioneer ...

Last June, one of my fellow authors wrote about Sulphur flower buckwheat, Eriogonum umbellatum, which has a pretty yellow flower. I have another species in my gardens, Eriogonum fasciculatum var.