Humans first began foraging for food some 12,000 years ago, long before they developed agricultural tools that overshadowed ...

Why do animals search for food at specific times of the day? In a study published in Current Biology, a research group led by ...

But for a man in a rowboat fifty feet from shore, all is still on Raleigh’s Walnut Creek Greenway. It’s late February, and these are scarce times. Sure, the intrepid forager may turn up some hearty ...

Four of the most common edible mushrooms you can forage are chicken of the woods, morels, chanterelles, and giant puffballs.

Holly has a degree in Medical Biochemistry from the University of Leicester. Her scientific interests include genomics, personalized medicine, and bioethics.View full profile Holly has a degree in ...

It’s June and the larger-than-your-face, white umbrella-shaped blooms of American elderberry (Sambucus canadensis) burst from the greenery, seemingly out of nowhere. Elderflowers are a seasonal joy, ...

By the time late summer rolls around, most people assume the busy hum of bees and butterflies has come to a graceful end. The ...

As a child I made yearly sojourns to my grandparents' home in California. Next door, in the middle of chest-high weeds, sat a lush grapefruit tree. The property was vacant; ivy climbed the walls, the ...

In this video, I test a $169 wireless Lavalier microphone. It initially performed well but unfortunately cut out during ...

On any given day, Amy Demers is walking around in the woods, searching. She doesn’t know what she is looking for until she finds it. Maybe it’s a mushroom, maybe some herbs, maybe some other edible ...

It’s late afternoon on the Sonoma Coast, fog drifting in from the Pacific, and though I can’t see it yet, a Super moon is ...