Ramps, or wild onions, are harvested on private property in a forest near Baroda, Michigan, in 2015. E. Jason Wambsgans/Chicago Tribune/TNS CHICAGO — When you think about poaching, ramps are likely ...

There’s free food everywhere, if you know where to look. Falling Fruit, which maps publicly available produce in several countries, lists 554 edible varieties (mostly plants) in 570,000 locations.

Foraging; middle-class pastime or a cost-of-living godsend? In recent years, in an effort to get out of the house and back to nature many people have taken up foraging - the practice of looking for ...

Zach Papaleoni recently walked through Whisky Hollow Nature Preserve in Van Buren, scanning the forest floor. He bent down and plucked a small, tan-colored mushroom from the ground and twirled it in ...

You are in: Tees > Nature > Nature Features > Fruits of the forest Hazel: eat the nuts, eat the leaves. With purse strings tightening across the country, there’s no better time to investigate what ...

WASHINGTON — The terrain was tricky, the bugs were out, and the heat from the sun was growing more intense by the minute — but Drew Adams was determined to find mushrooms. After about 20 minutes of ...

At my childhood summer camp in Pine Lake, Alta., you could water ski or take arts and crafts, sing in the musical or ride a horse. But sometimes on a cool, cloudless morning, I would skip the ...

When Harshita Kakwani decided to move from Indore city to the remote forests of Madhya Pradesh, she did not anticipate how she would fall for the love of foraging. Her journey into foraging and ...

Authorities in London's Epping Forest have been stopping and searching walkers in an attempt to catch foragers who are stripping the woodland of fungi. Forest keepers are trying to crack down on the ...