There’s nothing like wandering through a Washington state forest on a beautiful summer day in search of ripe, wild berries. Wild berry picking is the stuff of childhood memories for many ...

After a long series of gray, often rainy, and sometimes dreary days, a cloudless, deep-blue morning sky invites me into the Chugach front range east of Anchorage. To be more specific, the prospect of ...

There’s free food growing all around if you just know where to find it. Autumn is one of the most abundant seasons for wild food, with berries, mushrooms and nuts all coming into fruit. Time to do as ...

Picking wild cranberries is slow work. I picked berries for 40 minutes to get 20 ounces of cranberries. Commercial growers flood their cranberry bogs, getting the berries to float, then skim off the ...

The wild blackberries called to us from their home among the weeds and thorns, “Come and pick us. We’re ripe and ready. We’ve been waiting for you.” The mosquitoes were waiting for us, too. As soon as ...

The wild blackberries called to us from their home among the weeds and thorns, "Come and pick us. We’re ripe and ready. We’ve been waiting for you." The mosquitoes were waiting for us too. As soon as ...