How to protect your back while gardening this summer - To help prevent back pain, take regular breaks and do exercises that prepare your body for the physical movements involved in gardening.

Jill Lepore writes about Ruth Stout, an American radical known for the “no-work gardening” method, and the author of “How to Have a Green Thumb Without an Aching Back.” ...

He wears heavy duty gardening gloves when we cut down our tree at the local farm." Whether you choose to go with a real or faux Christmas tree this year, the branches can still scratch or irritate ...