California was once a hotbed of Japanese wine producers, until 20th-century legislation boxed them out. Over a hundred years later, a comeback is underway.

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Ball moss is the softball sized round shaped plant that usually grows on the branches in the interior of mature live oak ...

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Commissions do not affect our editors' opinions or evaluations. Live Oak Bank is ideal for savers and small business owners. It offers two personal banking products—savings accounts and ...

Instead of buying expensive growing mediums for seedlings, farmers can make their own mixtures from local resources, such as manure, which are economical and produce excellent results. Horse manure ...

Kosuke Okahara for The New York Times Supported by By Clay Risen One afternoon in February 1891, a Japanese chemist named Jokichi Takamine arrived by train in Peoria, Ill. He was there at the ...