Editor’s note: Once a month OSU Extension Master Gardener Volunteers in Franklin County profile a plant that occurs naturally in central Ohio. Not many trees have both beautiful fall color in several ...

Just a little over a year ago, I launched a From the Farm social media page on Facebook to allow added interaction with readers. With 6,000 followers and growing, it provides one more communication ...

I grew up with a sassafras grove. It was down the street from our house, a little forest in wild suburbia, our secret camp. We’d eat apples in there from a nearby orchard and chew sassafras leaf stems ...

The sassafras tree has many uses, but perhaps none better than making root beer. Sassafras oil has a pleasant, somewhat spicy scent that gives root beer its unique flavor. Incidentally, root beer gets ...

Sassafras (sassafras albidum) is a whimsical understory tree that is common all along the Appalachian Mountains. Sassafras trees are abundant in Indiana County, including throughout White’s Woods and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A mother and daughter plant a tree seedling in soil together. - narikan/Shutterstock You might know Sassafras (Sassafras albidum) ...

Sassafras has historically been considered a medicinal herb—used to treat fevers, inflammation, scurvy, dysentery, and sexually transmitted diseases, among other things—in addition to being used as a ...

I enjoyed Saturday mornings in late spring when Dad and I piled into the car to collect leaves for my school project. We'd wind our way along country back roads and hike through Indiana's state parks ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Not many trees have both beautiful fall color in several shades and three types of leaves, all on the same tree. The sassafras ...

I grew up with a sassafras grove. It was down the street from our house, a little forest in wild suburbia, our secret camp. We’d eat apples in there from a nearby orchard and chew sassafras leaf stems ...