Amanda Blum is a freelancer who writes about smart home technology, gardening, and food preservation. Previously, Amanda has worked as a technology strategist specializing in problem solving and ...

Nathan had always enjoyed growing unusual plants that most people never attempted at home. His backyard already held rare ...

Are you one of those daring people who absolutely love the taste of spicy wasabi (Eutrema japonicum) with your salmon rolls, and you also have a green thumb when it comes to growing things at home?

Japanese cuisine gourmands keen on the snappy, nose-tingling, eye-watering bite of wasabi that accompanies sushi might not know that green daub on their plate may actually be horseradish in disguise.

One of the toughest plants in the world to grow is one that you may have think you've eaten—but probably haven't. That plant is wasabi, and the BBC reports on one man's quest to do what so many others ...

If you’ve ever wondered what’s actually in wasabi and why it’s so spicy, you’re in the right place. If you eat a lot of sushi and sashimi, you’re probably pretty familiar with wasabi. What is wasabi, ...

Becoming a wasabi farmer wasn’t initially part of the career plan for former electrical contractor Jeff Roller. But for those who know him, his pivot wasn’t all that surprising, he says. He and ...

Angela Nelson is a Pulitzer Prize-winning digital editor and storyteller who covered a variety of general interest stories on MNN (now part of Treehugger) from 2014-2019. Wasabi and sushi go together ...

You know that little green dollop of heat sitting next to your California roll? There's a good chance it's never been anywhere near an actual wasabi plant. It's wild to think about, honestly. The ...

Climate and demographic threats are chipping away at a centuries-old culture surrounding the cultivation of the fluorescent green plant. Mountainside terraces of wasabi plants in Shizuoka, ...