Once you start picking okra, you have to keep up because it grows fast. Skip a day and the pods may already be too big and tough for cooking purposes. If you pick them at just the right time, when ...

For more than 50 years, a family-owned okra farm in Port Arthur has been growing and delivering fresh okra to residents in Southeast Texas. The farm, run by Walt Jackson, his brother Paulfry Jackson ...

Okra holds a special place in the hearts of many Louisianans. For some, it’s an essential ingredient in gumbo, and for others, it’s a must-grow crop in the summer vegetable garden. It’s no wonder why ...

COLUMBIA, Miss. (WDAM) - Whether you enjoy okra fried, boiled or pickled, the plant has become a Southern staple in many households. One gardener in Columbia is watching one particular okra plant ...

At the local greenhouse where I buy many of my spring bedding plants and vegetable starts, one of the most popular requests seems to be for okra. Do people like it for its tasty seed pods, or because ...

Time-lapse of planting an okra from a seed to harvest-able pods. The okra seed was sowed under potting mix soil in a 10-inch ...

Okra! It has been said you either love it or hate it, but I am not sure I have that strong of a feeling for okra either way. I will fry a little now and then, but what I really like is gumbo. Of ...

Local visual artist, ethnobotanist and okra grower Shamira Wilson sows the seed of her work — literally.

Q. We have a patch of various trees in our back yard that are often the annual target of insects and disease. Where would you recommend I begin my search for an arborist service that would be able to ...