Tell wild grape apart from common moonseed and porcelain berry, which are poisonous and invasive look-alike plants that can ...

Chicken of the woods growing on an ash stump. My wife, Elaine, and I are enthusiastic pursuers of wild edibles throughout the year. These natural foods are healthy, tasty, and, well, free. What’s more ...

These grapes are growing behind my house. Are they edible? They’re about the size of a pea. This is a wild grape vine, probably fox grapes. The fruit are edible when ripe, though extremely tart for ...

Wild North American grapes are now less of a mystery after researchers decoded and catalogued the genetic diversity of nine species of this valuable wine crop. Wild North American grapes are now less ...

My mother, who grew up outside Boston, loved telling the story about one of her early visits "up home" to visit my father’s family in rural Whitefield, Maine. This happened in the 1940s. By then, ...

Grapevine diseases like white rot pose growing threats to global viticulture, leading to major yield losses and economic setbacks. While cultivated varieties boast desirable fruit traits, they often ...