Soaring demand and extreme weather worsened by climate change have wiped out harvests of the popular purple yam.

I was hoping you could spend some time with me in the vegetable garden as I plant some rare purple sweet potatoes, tend to ...

This story was first published on June 24, 2021. With its eye-catching color and sweet-but-subtle flavor, ube has been on dessert menus everywhere over the past few years. A staple in Filipino cooking ...

Native to the Philippines, ube (Tagalog for tuber and pronounced OO-beh) is a purple yam that has played a central role in local food culture for more than four centuries, and has been gaining ...