Turnips are root vegetables belonging to the Brassicaceae family, which also includes broccoli, Brussels sprouts, cabbage, and kale. They are grown primarily for their bulbous roots, although their ...

Soil-cross time-lapse of growing a golden ball turnip from a seed to harvest. A turnip seed was sowing into moist soil. It sprouted almost and quickly developing a lot of tiny roots and leaves. This ...

Though not part of our family menus while growing up, later in life with my adult appetite I learned how much I like “boiled greens” as a side dish. A true Southern menu favorite of ages old and still ...

Root maggots taking over soil, warmer temperatures and other issues are wreaking havoc on the beloved vegetable, causing ...

When landscape architect and Boerum Hill resident Amy Seek attended a workshop on how to start a community supported agriculture (CSA) collective last fall, she envisioned the undertaking as part of a ...

Hank Will is a business leader, academic, and agricultural practitioner devoted to conservation and small-scale, sustainable agriculture and he currently serves as MOTHER EARTH NEWS Editor-at-Large.

WARDSBORO — As the autumn leaves are done falling and the nights get frosty, local farmers have started harvesting Gilfeather Turnips for the Wardsboro Vermont Gilfeather Turnip Festival. This year, ...

Although not the sexiest vegetable on the table, they’re full of nutrients that feed not only crops and farm animals, but us humans, too. Oh, the lowly turnip, the Rodney Dangerfield of vegetables: it ...