Last week my friend from the radio station asked me an interesting question as to whether I knew anything about how to go through the yard and find plants that a person could eat if there wasn’t ...

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 ...

Today the raised beds are holding the Common Ground seniors who are building them. In months to come, they’ll hold lettuce, tomatoes, strawberries, and an herb garden. And the fresher than fresh ...

Q: Once again I had a fairly good crop of tomatoes this year. One problem, though, a lot of ripe tomatoes are disappearing overnight. Are gray rats known for foraging and consuming garden produce? I ...

On a Saturday morning, just after 8, Charles Allen reached a hand into the scrub brush inches off the roadway and came out with what looked like a fist full of weeds. A gaggle of people sweating in ...

With foraging schools popping up like mushrooms and wild ingredients creeping into the menus of some of the country’s leading restaurants, the foraged-food trend is bringing out the hunter-gatherer in ...

Local parks, nature reserves and even roadsides can be a prime place to forage tasty ingredients which can be eaten at home. While foraging in the wild or more urban areas is a free and fun way to ...

FORAGING WALK: 9 a.m. to 11 a.m., Couturie Forest, City Park. In cooperation with the Eat Local Challenge, botanist Charles Allen leads a walk to find wild edibles such as chanterelles, wood ears, ...

In a delightful piece for TIME.com this week, Healthland contributor Anita Hamilton wrote about foraging for fresh greens and berries in the city. You might balk at eating produce plucked from an ...