Prior to the pandemic, Robyn Seguin had six houseplants in her Minneapolis apartment. But like many other plant parents, her collection grew quickly in confinement. “I don’t even know how many I have anymore,” she says, although she believes it’s close to 70. Before long, Sequin started amassing more tropical plants, flowering anthuriums and glossy-leafed […]

Over the past couple of years, a new generation of plant parents has blossomed, including apartment dwellers without much outdoor space for gardening. Instead, the new plant parents have turned their indoor spaces into plant havens, amassing collections of succulents, cacti and other potted plants. Some of the most coveted houseplants are tropical ones that […]

The COVID-19 pandemic has taken an incalculable toll on the food industry workers of America, from restaurant servers and meat plant workers to the farmworkers who toil in fields. According to research from the University of California, San Francisco, food industry workers’ risk of dying went up by 40 percent from March to October 2020. […]