Grow little gardeners with fun, incentives

If you think it's hard getting kids to eat their vegetables, wait until you try recruiting them for garden work.

Our Garden: Multi-tasking with garden herbs

Did you know that 80 percent of the world's population still uses herbs to make medicine? An even more surprising fact is that some of the most important medicinal herbs are common culinary varieties, such as basil and thyme, and can be found in your kitchen cabinet.

Heavenly herbs: Rediscover the culinary magic of nature's flavor makers

These days I've learned so much more about herbs that I have them growing in my garden, in containers and window boxes and even indoors during the winter months. What I've learned — thanks to the Oxford English Dictionary — is that the leaves and stems of herbs are used for medicine, or their scent or their flavor.

Herbs have many uses and require delicate care

The National Garden Bureau want you to know more about growing herbs so they have designated 2012 as The Year of the Herbs....

Donor's $100,000 Gift to Help Alliance For Independence Program Reach Next Level

The Lakeland community came together last year to remodel a kitchen that Alliance for Independence uses to train people who are developmentally disabled so they can prepare meals at home.