Rhubarb is erupting across the northern United States right now — offering a perfect opportunity to celebrate one of the year's first and most intriguing harvests. "Route 340 here in Lancaster County ...

There is a song going viral right now on social media about a woman named Barbara who is famous for her rhubarb pie. The entire song is a German tongue twister and catchy. Rhubarb is also trending due ...

Several weeks before we begin eating our garden produce — we haven’t even planted our vegetables and fruits — we enjoyed our first rhubarb of the year. I picked my first stalks of the season on May 3, ...

June means the season’s first strawberries and asparagus, and the opening of lots of side-of-the-road summer food stands. They’re all over the North Country, and you’ve probably got a few in your ...

Years ago, when my now-grown daughter Justine was a toddler, we visited a U-pick farm where she plucked plump, ripe strawberries from a field of sprawling plants. Some made it into the basket on that ...

Rhubarb does best where it gets cold; the plant needs occasional winter temperatures below 40 degrees to be reliably productive on a commercial scale. Almost all of the rhubarb farming in the United ...