I didn't start out as a lettuce kind of guy. Grocery-store lettuce appears to be grown simply to be drowned with dressing, and if I wanted to get excited about something green from the garden, I could ...

I was recently visiting a friend whose front yard has evolved into an untamed sanctuary — a mix of probable weeds, volunteer plants and a few intentionally placed shrubs and flowers. She’s the kind of ...

Recently I wrote about some mystery plants in my yard. Well, they turned out to be wild lettuce. It might be one of a few wild species. The different species are so often confused, it's difficult to ...

There was a time not so very long ago when just about everyone made it through the winter on cured meats, stored roots and canned or dried vegetables. The first wild greens that appeared each spring ...

Water lettuce isn’t a fancy green for salads; it is manatee food, capable of smothering a river and the focus of growing controversy. Water lettuce is regarded officially as a destructive exotic from ...