What bountiful lives we have in the Northwest! What a gift it is to live so close to so many beautiful things to eat — I try to not to be crass about it, but I admit I do get a huge thrill out of ...

Fall is the ideal time to look for wild mushrooms in the Columbia-Pacific region, and the season ahead is drawing attention. For foragers who await this time of year, there is a certain freedom, a ...

Community gardens grow more than food — they bring sweet respite, care and connection to a neighborhood. Just as a gardener devotes time to their craft, every story you read, event you join, and ...

There’s the local food you plant or buy from a farmer at the farmers market. Then there’s the local food you can forage from the woods, roadsides, marshes, all kinds of places. But wild food may not ...

Connie Green has been foraging since she was a small child growing up in ‘old’ Florida. Her family had lived in the area for seven generations and were very familiar with the local wild foods. Her ...

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 ...

Take an award-winning wild-ale brewer, an acclaimed chef and a creative fermentation specialist, throw in some foraged mushrooms, earthy barrel-aged saison, nettle kombucha and kimchi, and what do you ...

LENOX — In this summer of intermittent showers, Alex Lak took to the woods Saturday looking for bright yellow chanterelles and black trumpets to put in stews. Moisture-loving wild mushrooms are making ...