Growing up in a farming community, collards were a staple on many kitchen tables in the fall/winter. Just about everyone in the country had a collard patch. I must admit that I did not develop a true ...

Ira Wallace ambles around the butcher block countertop in the kitchen she shares with a community of farmers in central Virginia. She has separated a single leaf from the large baskets of unusual, ...

Swiss chard tolerates warm and even hot weather, and its leaves can easily grow 14 to 18 inches tall. (Dean Fosdick/Associated Press) As the weather begins to cool down, I look forward to a big mess ...

He figured collards would be a good place to start. He quickly learned that the origins of the modern plant are difficult to trace, and collards are not as ubiquitous as he first thought. "People will ...