The University of Hawaii-Manoa has decided that some patents, even if they have commercial potential, just are not worth having. The university last month relinquished its three patents on breeds of ...

Unless you live in the high mountainous regions of the country, growing potatoes in the home garden is practically impossible. We’ve tried it, and usually end up with a harvest of potatoes the size of ...

The first time Chris Smith tried to grow taro on his experimental farm in western North Carolina, the plants were too eager. He’d started them in a heated greenhouse one February day a few years ago, ...