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A house on fire.

Business

Los Angeles fire survivors face a $500,000 rebuild gap, even after insurance

A laundry basket filled with towels in front of a washing machine in a kitchen setting.

Home

Your dryer may use more electricity than your fridge — and this swap can cut it by 70%

A backup generator.

Home

Illinois fire district warns about generators after spike in carbon monoxide calls

A person picking produce in a garden.

Home

'There's nothing better': After waiting all summer, gardener's tomato haul finally arrives

A patch of soil and vegetation covered with leaves and debris next to a wooden board.

Home

White, wormy compost pile sparks alarm, but gardeners say the bigger risk is its location

A person rinsing and preparing vegetables.

Food

Family's preserving 'marathon' turns garden haul into spaghetti sauce, pie filling, and ramen

A butterfly pea flower being steeped to make electric-blue tea.

Home

Butterfly pea offers electric-blue blooms, herbal tea, and a lemon-triggered color change

A gardener examining a strawberry plant.

Home

Those long strawberry stems can turn into free plants every year — here's when to snip

Fig fruits on a tree, a potted fig tree, and a person holding a sliced fig showing its interior.

Home

Renters and beginners can grow figs in one container, and still harvest plenty

A woman harvesting her garden.

Home

Nonstop rain and 90°F heat left a backyard garden reeling, but peppers and zinnias held on

Sugar apples growing in a tree.

Food

Home gardener says sugar apple can bear fruit in 2 years, and ripen into a custardy treat

A woman holds a ripe tomato while standing among garden plants.

Home

Gardener warns late tomato flowers may be hurting your harvest more than helping it