MANKATO — Elli Fisher can't recall how many years ago it was when she first volunteered to help sort gifts donated to the Holiday Sharing Tree. It was a year or two after the program providing gifts ...

Christmas has the learned anticipation of childhood blended with adult disappointment that nothing magical has happened ...

Sometime before the Declaration of Independence was signed, an acorn hit the ground in what is now Travilah. A white oak grew from that acorn, and a town grew around the tree. “Some trees are just ...

Originally, when the festive season was intended to celebrate the winter solstice and the return of longer days, the ...

Researchers have figured out a way to plug into the power generated by trees. Scientists have known for some time that plants can conduct electricity. In fact, researchers at the Massachusetts ...

There is nothing that sums up the magic of Christmas like a beautifully decorated tree. While many people opt for plastic options, a real Christmas tree is a great way to add extra festive cheer to ...

The saplings didn’t look like much, just foot-long twigs with a few straggly roots attached. It took some imagination, a fair amount of faith and a real aptitude for patience to envision the twigs ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Inga Simpson takes the pungent aroma of the forest with her when she travels. Hotel rooms are filled with the odour of wood, gecko shit ...

Q: I have a love/hate relationship with this “weed.” For about 10 years I cut it off at the ground. It came up as one puny stalk with a reddish stem and then got other stems growing next to it and ...