Historians know that turkey and corn were part of the first Thanksgiving, when Wampanoag peoples shared a harvest meal with the pilgrims of Plymouth plantation in Massachusetts. And traditional Native ...

For hundreds of years, Mandan and Hidatsa villagers farming river bottoms in what is now North Dakota traded corn, beans and squash with nomadic tribes that hunted along the Yellowstone River. Lewis ...

Editor’s note: Once a month, OSU Extension Master Gardener Volunteers in Franklin County write a column about native plants in Ohio. When you think of Ohio, you might picture its bustling cities, ...

IXTENCO, MexicoIXTENCO, Mexico — On the slopes of the Malinche volcano, Juan Vargas starts the dawn routine he’s had since childhood, carefully checking stalks of colorful native corn. For years, ...

Native plants have a symbiotic relationship with native wildlife and evolved within local environment. Here, a monarch rests on a blazing star, a native wildflower. Native plant species are better ...