VERNON — The longest running festival in Jennings County is set to return later this month, with planners for the Sassafras Tea Festival and Civil War Living History in Vernon setting a slate of free ...

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.

VERNON — The annual Sassafras Festival is being held in Jennings County this weekend, and while many different festivities will take place, the root of the celebration all can be found in the free tea ...

School groups and families can experience the sights, sounds and flavors of early Appalachian life with hands-on activities.

Editor’s note: Once a month OSU Extension Master Gardener Volunteers in Franklin County profile a plant that occurs naturally in central Ohio. Not many trees have both beautiful fall color in several ...

This is part one of my interview with Colin Mallet, chef of Sassafras; part two of our chat will run tomorrow. “Hey, I’ll be back in a sec. I’ve got a fire to put out,” says Colin Mallet, who utters ...

Once in awhile, on the way down the lane, my granddad would stop the truck, reach out the window and break off some twigs of sassafras. I don’t remember the root beer taste; it was more the novelty of ...

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 ...

It’s been a tough year for many Buckeye families who have stayed close to home and are now seeing their four walls closing almost to suffocation. Those with families particularly, are feeling a need ...

The Geauga Soil and Water Conservation District has unveiled its 2025 Geauga County Big Tree Contest and is currently seeking nominations. The 2025 featured tree species is the Sassafras, which will ...

PITTSBURGH--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Pam Selker Rak, Pittsburgh-based poet and president of marketing firm, CommuniTech, LLC, today announces the launch a children’s book, “Sassafras Tea,” a story-poem ...