Growing up in a farming community, collards were a staple on many kitchen tables in the fall/winter. Just about everyone in the country had a collard patch. I must admit that I did not develop a true ...

Ira Wallace ambles around the butcher block countertop in the kitchen she shares with a community of farmers in central Virginia. She has separated a single leaf from the large baskets of unusual, ...

Collard greens are a nutritious vegetable with a rich cultural heritage in the U.S. Now, scientists and enthusiasts are working to preserve and popularize heirloom varieties that could be tastier and ...

Celebrating collards: from festivals to fiction -- Eating collards: the reasons we do or don't -- Cooking collards: kitchen stories and home recipes -- Growing collards: is broccoli really the same ...

DeZha Smith, at 21-year-old farmer from north St. Louis, surveys dozens of collard green plants at the Jackie Joyner-Kersee Center in East St. Louis, Ill. The plants are part of a study examining the ...