If you plan to pick more than three gallons of any berry in any national forest, you’ll need a permit. o Cost: $40 for a 14-day permit; $75 for a season permit o Limit: Without a permit, up to three ...

In my last column, I divulged my passion for wild-food foraging and shared a recipe for a nettles pesto. I am continuing the theme in this editorial because the outdoors are bursting with life. And ...

Wild berries are ripening across America, and the race is on among man and animals, birds and insects, to see who will get theirs first. Blackberries are the largest and most recognizable of the wild ...

The roadside is very colorful with various plants out here taking advantage of the warmth and sunlight. I see yellows of hawkweed, trefoil, buttercup and sweetclover; orange and red of orange hawkweed ...

Follow our list of edible plants with pictures of to forage a world of groceries free for the picking. I learned at an early age that our home in the country was surrounded by groceries “free for the ...

Haley Mast is a freelance writer, fact-checker, and small organic farmer in the Columbia River Gorge. She enjoys gardening, reporting on environmental topics, and spending her time outside ...

Spring weather has finally come to the Pacific Northwest, which means more hiking and foraging opportunities. But if you’re walking along one of the many trails across Washington state and find a bush ...

Is that fungus growing on a downed tree along your favorite hiking path the delectable Chicken of the Woods mushroom or one of several toxic look-alikes? The answer, according to the Pennsylvania ...