Close-up of raspberries and a few green leaves - Valentyn Volkov/Shutterstock You're trudging through the underbrush on a hike when you decide to take a break. As you power up with some trail mix, you ...

Step into the forest with me, dear traveler. I am the princess of these berry-bright woods, and I must tell you a secret woven through every branch and blossom. Foraging for wild berries is one of ...

Picking your own food in the wild produces no easier or tastier result than it does with berries. And there’s more than you might think out there, both in terms of sheer volume and types. Here’s how ...

Haley Mast is a freelance writer, fact-checker, and small organic farmer in the Columbia River Gorge. She enjoys gardening, reporting on environmental topics, and spending her time outside ...

Stumbling onto a patch of sweet berries is one of the special treats of hiking in the wild. We've eaten wild blackberries in California, wild blueberries in Maine, wild strawberries in Colorado. Here ...

If you think you might be a bull-in-the-china-shop type of picker, by all means, wear protective clothing to prevent yourself from becoming bloodied by thorns. A wild raspberry patch is generally not ...

Astute berry lovers are rewarding themselves right about now with fresh black raspberries in their pancakes, smoothies and cobblers. But that’s only if they exercise some willpower while picking. Many ...

There are some wonderful wild edible plants scattered across this continent. Pick up a foraging book or take an edible plant class and you’re in for a surprise. You’ll start to see these edible plants ...