Just because you don’t have a dedicated vegetable garden, doesn’t mean you enjoy eating from plants you’ve grown yourself. Springtime is the perfect time to discover edible flowers already growing in ...

Dave Odd shows off a shepherd’s purse plant during an Eat the Park foraging event near Montrose Beach on June 4 in Chicago. CHICAGO — Professional forager Dave Odd confidently declared he could start ...

Lauren Rueth trims the tops off of shepherd’s purse during a foraging basics class at Hidden Villa in Los Altos Hills. Photo by Magali Gauthier. On a Saturday morning in mid-March, a small group of ...

Foraging is the process of identifying and harvesting wild plants, berries, nuts, roots and seeds to eat and to use as health remedies. While humans had been foragers by necessity for millennia up ...

When the leaves of the wild leek have withered and the fronds of fiddlehead ferns have unfurled, it’s time to turn to the less sexy but equally delicious wild edibles that emerge in early summer. The ...

A new cookbook from a North Bay forager includes recipes that use flowers and tips for how to pick them. When foraging flowers (or doing any kind of foraging), Maria Finn offers this advice: When ...

These low-growing plants look beautiful and taste delicious. Orest Lyzhechka / Getty Images Ground covers have many benefits in the landscape—they can choke out weeds, control erosion on slopes, fill ...

Come spring, avid gardeners dig into the new growing season ready with careful cultivation plans they dreamed up over long winters. But even city-dwelling non-planners can benefit from year-round ...

More homeowners are planting edible flowers because they offer a unique combination of beauty, flavor, and environmental benefits. These flowers don’t just brighten your garden—they bring fresh, ...

Nothing takes me back to the Midwestern pastoral of my youth quite like the smells of springtime: freshly cut grass with an edge of lawnmower fuel, the sweet ozone of an imminent thunderstorm. Most of ...

Professional forager Dave Odd confidently declared he could start a Sunday tour at Wilson Skate Park by identifying five edible plants right underneath his feet. Taking a step forward, he pointed to a ...