Mushroom hunting is increasingly popular. A new wave of foraging groups by and for people of color could also help close the ...

Dining on nature’s bounty sounds romantic –– and also dangerous. Experts share how to avoid lethal mushrooms and other deadly risks.

PORTSMOUTH, N.H. Standing barefoot in a grassy patch of dandelions, Iris Phoebe Weaver excitedly begins listing the many ways the modest plant can be used medicinally and in cooking. “I just picked a ...

What was supposed to be a delicious meal could have been the last for a Massachusetts woman and her adult son. Kam Look and Kai Chen went out to forage for mushrooms to cook for dinner last month, but ...

What was supposed to be a delicious meal could have been the last for a Massachusetts woman and her adult son. Kam Look and Kai Chen went out to forage for mushrooms to cook for dinner last month, but ...

Twenty years ago, Samuel Thayer, a rural Wisconsinite who grew up foraging on the side of the road on his way to school, started teaching classes on how to find, recognize, and collect edible wild ...

Earlier this year, Cabot resident Gwendolyn Hallsmith wanted to see her town begin to make amends for Vermont’s history of violence against Indigenous people. So, with the help of Don Stevens, chief ...

This year saw 159 people exposed to poisonous wild mushrooms in the Garden State, according to the latest data from New Jersey Poison Control Center. That’s up 22% from last year, which had 130 ...

If you’ve ever picked pecans up from the ground at Brackenridge Park or pulled a lime off of a tree in your backyard, you’ve inadvertently taken part in urban foraging. Credit: Adah Esquivel San ...

A Cincinnati poison center has issued a statewide alert because of an increase in poisonings related to people who forage for edible mushrooms. The Cincinnati Drug and Poison Information Center, which ...

ST. PAUL — Foraging, the process of harvesting wild plants and mushrooms, has too many barriers in Minnesota, foraging advocates say. A bipartisan bill, which was heard in the House Environment and ...