Researchers come together over tomatoes.

Beets, so much more than your grandmother’s root vegetable.

At Allen Centennial Gardens, director Ed Lyon is rejuvenating the landscape with new plants-and a new idea about how gardens fit into our busy lives.

Professor of Horticulture

Breeders are helping Senegalese farmers produce more pink.

12 Alumni who are making a difference in the biotechnology industry.

UW Students get involved in local organic agriculture.

12 Alumni who are making a difference in the food industry.

David Spooner hunts the globe for wild potatoes that just might save our nation’s crop from disaster.

Growing vegetables, but not on a farm.

More than a decade ago, CALS plant breeders set out to build a better pickle. The result is sweet, crunchy––and the color of cantaloupe. Here’s why orange may be the shade of pickles to come.