#Horticulture

Getty Image / Tayfun Coskun / Anadolu Agency Travis Gienger is a Horticulture teacher from Minnesota who just grew and weighed a record-breaking 2,560-pound pumpkin. It is now the largest pumpkin ever grown and weighed in North America but it did stop short of setting a new Guinness World

Author: Anne Ewbank / Source: Atlas Obscura Luther Burbank was America’s most legendary horticulturist. At the turn of the 20th century, he developed hundreds of new fruit, vegetable, and flower varieties, creating marvels such as the Shasta daisy and the Santa Rosa plum. If America had a

Author: Bruce Bower / Source: Science News Welcome to the somewhat civilized jungle. Plant cultivation by native groups has shaped the landscape of at least part of South America’s Amazon forests for more than 8,000 years, researchers say. Of dozens of tree species partly or fully domesticated