Packed with vitamins A and C, calcium, iron, fiber, and folic acid, these dark leafy greens have gained popularity in recent years due to their high nutritional values. But before the health craze, ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... No one is quite sure why the leafy green is called “Swiss” chard, mainly by speakers of English only. Other languages and peoples call it merely “chard” or ...

The rules of vegetable blanching say to use a big pot of water, salt, and then shock in ice water. Is any of this true?

Farmers are just as interested in growing something new as we are in trying out a delicious new vegetable. Linda Scharko of Scharko Farms says she waited two months to get her hands on the seeds for ...

Local chard has been available through the winter at the Oxford Farmer’s Market. Chard is here year-round perhaps because the plant produces multiple crops. Chard is often grouped with kale. Both are ...

This week's look at what's new, bountiful or even mysterious in the produce aisles. Chard, commonly known as Swiss chard, is perhaps the star among "leafy greens," that collection of nutritional ...