There may be pests chowing down on your grass. “It’s important to identify what is doing the damage,” says Shimat V. Joseph, ...

Among the family of housekeeping implements, the broom—humble, deceptively simple in design, prone to leaning unobtrusively in corners—does not often enjoy the recognition it deserves.

In just a year, the degraded land is now transformed into a patch of greenery, replete with plantations of broom grass, locally known as Amriso (Thysanolaena maxima) along with other tree species.

U Tin Oo, owner of the Win Ngwe Toe grass broom business in Yangon, vows to sustain his business of making traditional brooms, which he thinks is a big contributor to the local economy. “Despite ...

That stiff grass that brooms are made of is called broomcorn. All broomcorn grown in the United States is said to descend from three seeds found by Benjamin Franklin in a whisk broom. There’s no ...

"By sweeping your home in the morning with grass brooms, you also wipe out negative thoughts and energies." So goes an Assamese proverb. Resting against the back of a door-frame, the broom you ...

It caters to lakhs of households in the country. The brooms made here are unique, eco-friendly grass brooms. They are made out of broom grass, a common crop grown in these parts. It is a popular ...

Even though he’s a broom maker, Chris Nibbe’s creativity can’t be swept under the rug. Based in Rochester, Nibbe’s Sweet Corn Brooms makes more than just sweeping tools. Though Nibbe ...

Amid the noise of the city located in a small alley at No 180 Pham Phu Thu in District 6, HCM City, workers in the last grass broom village in the city are chopping grass with knives on wooden cutting ...