This summer’s garden has been a disappointment. The cucumber plants showed early promise, long green tendrils snaking up carefully set stakes, pushing out all sorts of blossoms, but produced very ...

Irmo's Okra Strut Queen Kim Case dons a crown of okra blossoms and an okra necklace. Festival organizers say the event is the largest celebration of okra in the United States. This year's festival ...

I have to say, this year's backyard gardening experiment went a lot better than I expected. I ended up with more than a mess of tomatoes, a few cucumbers and one lonely, pitiful eggplant. It wasn't a ...

Okra has been a part of Southern culture for generations: mixed in gumbo, fried to a crisp or stewed with tomatoes and served over rice. It’s a good source of fiber, vitamin C, calcium and potassium, ...

3 p.m.-7 p.m. Thursday, August 6. Taste of Georgia. Vendors and chefs offer tastes of Georgia products. Larger portions can be purchased for dine in or to take home. Sweet Apple Farmers Market, ...