Best-known for the tea that pioneers made by boiling its root bark, the aromatic native Sassafras albidum, or sassafras tree, is an interesting, useful and showy addition to central Ohio landscapes.

The sassafras sapling we planted in an out-of-the-way spot on our acreage went largely unnoticed at first. At the time, we knew that sassafras roots had a very long history for use in making tea, but ...

AGAINST the Indian-summer sky, a tree lifts up its hands and testifies to glory, the glory of a blue October day. Yellow or orange, or blood-orange, or sometimes softest salmon pink, or blotched with ...

Coles County Master Gardener Juanita Sherwood shares her thoughts on sassafras. I lived on a Coles County farm when I was growing up in the 1950s. There were certain things to be done at specific ...

A: I found lots of articles online that recommend pine needle tea as a tasty "citrus'y" drink in winter. I have no idea if it is "safe" to drink. When I was a kid, it was a regular winter task ...