The culinary chair of the Mycological Association of Washington, DC, specializes in urban foraging excursions, leading walks throughout the city to identify, sustainably gather, and utilize the edible ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) I had been preparing for a summer of field work studying foraged desert plants in a ...

The Butternut tree (Juglans cinerea) is a native deciduous hardwood tree related to the Black Walnut (Juglans nigra). Also known as White Walnut, the wood from Butternut is used for woodworking, ...

Even the most gentle-looking plant can reach out to bite an unsuspecting forager. In their new book, Mia Andler and Kevin Feinstein offer stern warnings about poisonous plants that can cause death or ...

Until a few years ago, most people who knew what a ghost pipe was had a degree in botany. The spindly stems of the parasitic species — which appear bleach-white because they lack chlorophyll — emerge ...

WINTERTIME, for many gourmands, is food time, and sit-at-a-grand-table time, and experience-a-new-dish time, for sure. Marvelous meals are at the steamy and succulent center of many celebrations ...

Environmentalists are begging visitors of a stunning California beach to stop over-foraging mussels as enthusiasts flock to find their own seafood treats. Local experts of California's Half Moon Bay, ...

These are edited highlights of a live Q&A with Karen Javelin, the director of “Pantry Earth”, a new feature-length documentary from the BBC’s award-winning natural-history unit. Q. Karen, tell us ...

The validity of previous portrayals of the Basarwa (`Bushmen' or San), and of foragers in general, has been questioned. Some anthropologists claim that the Basarwa can be viewed as foragers with an ...