Of all the wild edible plants that grow in our country, the ancient fiddlehead ferns are the most unique and flavorful. They are the unfurled new leaves of a fern. Reproducing through spores, not ...

As a kid, I remember watching time-lapse videos of a flower blooming or of the sun racing across the sky. Of course, things don't happen that way in nature with one possible exception: sprouting, ...

For the shade gardener who wants to grow edible plants, this shadowy designation of how much—or how little—direct sunlight a space receives is often perceived as second best. “I have a garden, ...

VAIL VALLEY, Colorado -In the Colorado Rockies and the Vail Valley, wild mushroom foragers do not share the whereabouts of their secret stash. And so it is in Maine, New Hampshire, Oregon and the ...

When the thaw of winter is finally over and spring rolls around, fiddlehead ferns are one of the first things to pop up — the curled fronds of ferns yet to unfurl into their full, leafy shape. One of ...

Fiddlehead ferns were once only eaten by foragers willing to tromp through the forest in search of this delicacy. Now, they're popping up on menus and recipe websites all over. One of spring's wild ...

More than 11,000 species of ferns cover our planet, but they're not all as feathery as the ones we see in our gardens and on forest footpaths would suggest. They range from the little clover-like ...

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In the Colorado Rockies, wild mushroom foragers do not share the whereabouts of their secret stash. And so it is in Maine, New Hampshire, Oregon and the Great Lakes States – but for these residents, ...