These low-growing plants look beautiful and taste delicious. Orest Lyzhechka / Getty Images Ground covers have many benefits in the landscape—they can choke out weeds, control erosion on slopes ...

But dedicated foodscapers can get even more food out of their gardens by cultivating edible ground cover plants as low-maintenance grass alternatives, cover crops, or living mulches in vegetable ...

This spring, don’t forage for wild edible plants. Instead, welcome them into your garden. By Margaret Roach Jared Rosenbaum knows the primal thrill of foraging — a sense of interdependence ...

These native plants are easy to grow in the Willamette Valley, and the berries can be made into jams, jellies and sauces, or eaten right off the bush.

Food forests use every inch of soil and sunlight to create a closed-loop sustainable system for growing your favorite foods.

“I can help you find 50 edible or medicinal plants, no matter where we are,” says Dave Odd, founder of Eat The Neighborhood Foraging Tours and Events.

Five things to do in the garden: 1. Plant a Spanish shawl. There is no ground cover more captivatingly beautiful than Spanish shawl (Centradenia floribunda). I first saw it in a nursery on a cart ...

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