It is dehydrated and cut into slices for many uses. The Luffa gourd is a long, zucchini-like item grown on land. Once the fruit is mature, it can be picked from the vine and place in a dry location ...

This is the season when autumnal displays surround us. Decorative gourds seem to appear overnight, as if beamed down from an alien spacecraft: striped, speckled, warted, and winged. Bright bursts of ...

Watch a luffa/loofah gourd plant growing from a seed to fruit in this 114 days time lapse. After a week the seed was sowed into soil, luffa seedling appeared quickly with lots of vines climbing and ...

The agricultural weather from the National Weather Service Climate Predication Center 8- to 14-day outlook for Oct. 8 to 14 for our area of the Midwest, continues the seemingly relentless pattern ...

ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published. The continents are rapidly drying out and the earth’s vast ...

If you're looking to green-ify your shower space with an endless supply of self-grown loofahs, look no further. Loofahs are the dried fruit of the subtropical vining loofah plant. Once you pick the ...

Snuggled amid the bumpy folds of land in south Petaluma is a singular farm and nursery dedicated to growing food crops you would be hard pressed to find anywhere else in the Bay Area. Here in the ...