Have you ever wondered what wild mushrooms taste like? Have you always wanted to try foraging, but are too afraid you might eat the wrong one? Or maybe you just like tromping around the forest with a ...

The mystery around these sorts of mushrooms illustrates the value in conserving and researching natural wonders like them.

Continuing the pattern of June, July and August, September began by being warmer and wetter than normal. It is not unusual to be wet during the first half of this cooling month that takes us into ...

Nick Spero has a big secret. It has to do with where to find one of the most sought-after mushrooms of the fungi world: the morel. Spero, who is a biologist, is also an expert forager. He has been ...

The very wet summer has robbed us of one of the great delights of life: the field mushroom is as scarce as hens' teeth this year. But there has been a great flush of mushrooms in forest areas. That is ...

The following is excerpted from "The Sisterhood of the Enchanted Forest: Sustenance, Wisdom, and Awakening in Finland's Karelia" by Naomi Moriyama and William Doyle (Pegasus). “Go on, pick it,” said ...

It’s a cold November day, but the 3,000 logs stacked inside Nicola Macpherson’s greenhouse are warm and dry. Plastic mesh is draped to form a roof above them, shielding the space from sunlight.

Ruthless foragers are damaging the environment by stripping ancient woodlands of edible mushrooms, officials claim. There is huge demand for the fungi, but the pickers are depriving insects and ...

Many farmers in Appalachia are cultivating food not in big open fields but deep in the forest — where ramps, hazelnuts and maple trees for syrup thrive. But some would like to see the region producing ...