If you're interested in adding legumes (plants that grow in pods) to your garden, consider starting with lentils. The nutrient-dense food thrives in growing zones 4 through 11, and can grow to be ...

A bowl on a dark stone countertop full of a melange of sprouted beans, lentils, and other legumes - Tatiana Bralnina/Shutterstock With rising grocery costs, it can literally pay to grow your own food.

WILLISTON, N.D. - Beau Anderson didn’t know much about lentils when he was growing up. They weren’t raised on his family farm, and they didn’t show up on his dinner plate. But the crop has become a ...

Lentils are grown commercially in the United States (especially in states like Montana, North Dakota, and Washington). Canada, India, and countries in Europe and northern Africa also have substantial ...

Lens culinaris, the lentils plant, has many different names. The term “lentil” is a direct reference to the word “lens”, which not only references its botanical name but its shape. The legumes ...

Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. Chef Claudia Galofre-Krevat’s lentil dinners returned to Bozeman this week with an eastern ...

David Oien doesn’t seem like a renegade. He’s a friendly, down-to-earth, third-generation Montana farmer. But Oien and his fellow farmers at Timeless Seeds are renegades. In Montana, a state dominated ...

From dry beans to chickpeas and lentils, oftentimes home growers do not consider the potential to grow their own pulses. Elizabeth has worked since 2010 as a writer and consultant covering gardening, ...